The federation’s executive took a bold step in September when it agreed to a plan for developing ETFO online additional qualification (AQ) courses. While ETFO has gained a reputation for the delivery of high-quality face-to-face AQ courses, we have never offered an AQ course totally online.
Professional learning matters. It reinforces what we know, teaches us what we strive to learn, and challenges us in unexpected ways. As instructors in the ETFO/Drake University credit course program, we not only deliver professional learning, we take part in it ourselves.
It’s the third Wednesday of the month almost 4 p.m. After a busy day at work teachers are heading out the door, to pursue their own learning. They converge at Spruce Glen Public School in Huntsville to share the fine art of teaching writing.
Elementary teachers are professionals. They understand how best to organize their time and commitments to meet the educational needs of their students.
Mentors play an important role in creating the possibility for happy endings for new teachers: that despite the stress and demands of their first year, they will become highly effective professionals who enjoy a fulfilling career.
Over the past 20 years, methods of teaching mathematics have shifted, from keeping students busy with the rote learning of disconnected facts and procedures to teaching for automaticity and flexibility and for a deep understanding of mathematical concepts.
During the summer of 2006, as I was working through an AQ course, there was one question that I endlessly fretted over: how to initiate a professional learning community (PLC).
ETFO is recognized as the foremost provider of professional learning activities for teachers in Ontario, if not Canada.
