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Literacy

Literacy in a Global, Digital Age

Johanna Brand

Joyce Public School is located in northwest Toronto, in an unprepossessing one-storey brick building. The Joyce school community, with a majority of immigrant families, is multicultural and multilingual. Many families have low incomes.

Give Teachers the Time to Teach (From the President)

Sam Hammond

Over the  past several years there has been a significant increase in the number of literacy and numeracy initiatives that ETFO members are expected to implement. These initiatives come from the Ministry of Education, individual school boards, families of schools, or individual administrators.

Annual Meeting 2010

Member concerns about EQAO testing dominated ETFO’s 2010 annual meeting. President Sam Hammond called on the government to temporarily halt province-wide testing and reduce the resulting number of Ministry initiatives.

Benin Big Book Project: Creating Books for Young Learners

Anne Rodrigue, Joan Littleford

During the summer of 2008 we were working in Benin, in partnership with Right To Play, the Benin Ministry of Education, and the Benin teacher union, SYNAEM, to develop and implement a new curriculum.

Provincial Testing: Time for Change (OTF Report)

Rian McLaughlin

There is no question that one of the issues that creates unyielding solidarity among OTF and the  teacher  federations is  the political philosophy that  has developed around  large-scale  testing  in   Ontario’s public schools!  We  all  firmly  object  to  provincewide EQAO testing  and   the 

A Quiet Leader is Recognized

Education assistants  make up a small fraction of the ETFO membership. But the impact they have in the classroom can be substantial.

Teaching With Technology: A Comic Life

Cindy Matthews

As a storytelling medium, comics have come of age in the last few decades. With an enduring history in North America as a venue for superhero quests, they have entertained many a young reader.