[Replicable Practices] Special Education Funding

Ontario Ministry of Education

How does Ministry of Education fund our public education system? Each year the ministry provides funds to school boards through a series of grants. This Education Funding contains information on this year's grants, plus links to information on grants from previous years.

School Board Funding Projections for the 2010-11 School Year (PDF, 463 KB)

Special Education Funding Guidelines: Special Equipment Amount (SEA), 2010-11 (PDF, 437 KB)

Special Education Funding Guidelines: Special Incidence Portion (SIP), 2010-11 (PDF, 1.02 MB)

[Replicable Practices] Study Guides II

Muskingum University

Muskingum University, located in east-central Ohio has a Center for Advancement of Learning. The center's motto is to emphasize the development of lifelong learning skills through commitment to a learning strategies philosophy.

Resources are devoted to General and Subject Content,  High School to College and Post Grad Learning Strategies.

[Replicable Practices] PDF Online

Have you ever been frustrated because you found a great PDF file but wished it was as a Word document?

Have you ever been frustrated because you have a Word document but wished it was a PDF file?

PDF Online by BCL Technologies

[Replicable Practices] Conversation "Video" Sparkers!

I really like the series of videos from the Shift Happens series. I find that these series of videos are great conversation sparkers. My experience in showing them is to create a spark that ignites a really great debate. I have watched the video and come up with a series of questions that I ask before the video and then again at the end. I use them to guide the discussion, however in some classes I find that the students initiate the conversation. I normally let them be and guide only if necessary. I find that showing them at the end of the year the students can take their prior knowledge, merge it with their new knowledge and altogether have a new schema around certain topics.

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[Replicable Practices] eWorkshop.on.ca

eWorkshop.on.ca

I try to better myself in the the areas of Literacy, Instruction and Leadership. In order to promote replicable practices without trying to improve myself is a meaningless message and not very professionally satisfying. The Ministry of Education of Ontario has a collection of resources at eWorkshop for Literacy and Numeracy for K to 6 teachers.

If you are not sure, then let me tell you . . .

What is literacy and what is my role as a teacher?

What is numeracy and what is my role as a teacher?

[Replicable Practices] I will stop procrastinating . . . tomorrow!

One of the topics that I cover is my GLE class is the topic on avoiding procrastination. I always begin each lesson with a replicable practice that deals with a hook or an attention grabber, or any other unique way to motivate interest in the lesson. Many times I turn and seek assistance from a very close and dear friend of mine, YouTube.

Tales Of Mere Existence: "Procrastination"

[Replicable Practices] Resumes II

Original Post: Resumes I

nextsteps.org

An additional resource I used designing one of the culminating activities. This website presents career information in three steps.

1. Career Planning
2. Job Seeking
3. Career Maintenance

Thanks to: The City of Calgary, The Government of Alberta and Canada.