Features

On a hot, cloudless day in June,  200 special needs students in the District School Board of Niagara took part in their first track and field day.

In 2006 the Autism Spectrum Disorders Reference Group was set up to provide recommendations to the minister of education and the minister of children and youth services about effective,  evidence-based  educational  practices to meet the strengths and needs of students with autism spectrum disord

The Education Act requires individual education plans (IEPs) for students identified as exceptional through an identification, placement, and review committee (IPRC).

Special education teachers and literacy coaches with the Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board have found the rewards of a collaborative and collegial working partnership to be worth the effort. At two schools, Roger Neilson and R.F.

ETFO members  who ran for office in the provincialelection reflect on 

Last spring, as ETFO began preparing for the October 2007 election, the federation looked back on four years during which the government had worked constructively with education stakeholders to address issues affecting public education and the teaching profession.

Last year ETFO commissioned OISE/UT professor Ken Leithwood to examine the current research on what teacher working conditions will improve student learning.

For the average Canadian teacher, the war in Afghanistan  seems remote. It is a news story we can turn off and ignore.

French teachers on itinerant  assignments often feel somewhat isolated and disconnected from colleagues.