Early Learning-Kindergarten team members need to be flexible in their planning and delivery of The Kindergarten Program . The diverse backgrounds of children will contribute to their variations in knowledge, skills and attitudes. Early Learning-Kindergarten team members need to recognize each child...
Children show their understanding by doing, showing and telling. Early Learning–Kindergarten teams work together to use the assessment strategies of observing, listening and asking probing questions in order to assess and evaluate children’s achievement. Assessment Assessment is the process of...
While engaged in The Kindergarten Program , young children begin to develop the knowledge, skills and attitudes that will assist them in making positive life choices. Team members provide the opportunities for children to demonstrate their learning through a wide variety of dynamic, authentic and...
All physical activity inevitably involves some element of risk, and therefore, concern for safety is an integral part of program planning and implementation. The primary responsibility for the care and safety of children rests with the school board/child-care facility and its employees. The key to...
This example begins by examining the specific expectations from Grade 11 (C3.4) and Grade 12 (C2.5). These expectations were chosen because of their commonalities and the ability to develop the necessary skills for students to progress through the curriculum. Note: the expectations selected are to...
As in all H&PE courses, the Healthy Living expectations and the living skills must be addressed within every focus course. This is further reinforced by the title of all focus courses where the “Healthy Living and” prefix has been explicitly placed before the “focus” (Ontario Ministry of Education...
The desire to create a focus course will not guarantee that it will run. In many cases, the focus course may compete against other courses currently running in a department or another optional course students may need to take as a prerequisite or graduation requirement. Some students may not be...
The Focus Course Advocacy and Implementation Kit contains three resources to support you with the advocacy and implementation of focus courses. The supports include the tools needed to advocate, communicate and gain support for the delivery of focus courses. Within this kit you will find: Small...
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. (2006). Getting Results with Curriculum Mapping: Facilitator Guide . Retrieved from https://appservice.caiu.org/GetDocument?folderPath=CP%5CResouceBank%5C&… Canadian Education Association. (2014). Collaborative...
The Teaching Games for Understanding (TGfU) Sample Unit Plans illustrate how educators may organize instruction to support students in developing their physical literacy. The focus of the learning in these sample units is on fundamental and transferable movement competence skills, concepts...
Unit Length: 7 Periods Learning Goals We are learning to follow rules for our own safety and the safety of others. (A3.1) We are learning to use social skills as we participate and interact positively with others. (1.4, A1.3) We are learning how to develop our personal fitness by actively...
The Assessment and Evaluation Tools have been developed to support implementation of the H&PE Secondary Curriculum and Ophea’s H&PE Secondary Resources. The 12 resources are recordable PDFs and consist of teacher and student resources that may be used to gather evidence of learning, to record...
The Effective Planning in H&PE resource has been developed to support secondary educators with the planning for and implementation of the H&PE Curriculum. Effective Planning in H&PE provides educators with a summary of key information, which includes practical examples to assist planning for...
Key Components of a Quality Program The goal of Ontario secondary schools is to support high-quality learning while giving individual students the opportunity to choose programs that suit their skills and interests. Quality programs help students develop their critical and creative thinking to...
Effective Unit Design Effective unit design involves several important elements. Teachers engage students in learning by: activating their prior learning and experiences, clarifying the purpose for learning and making connections to contexts that will help them see the relevance and usefulness of...
The vision of the Health and Physical Education (H&PE) Curriculum is that all students will develop physical and health literacy, which in turn will help them acquire the competence, confidence and therefore, the commitment to lead a healthy active life across their lifespan. Becoming physically...
The Assessment, Planning and Instruction Cycle The primary purpose of assessment is to improve student learning. Students benefit when they clearly understand what they are expected to learn, when and how they will be assessed, and are provided with ongoing, descriptive feedback about their...
Triangulation When teachers use a variety of assessment strategies to gather evidence of student learning, this increases the reliability and validity of assessment. This is called triangulation. Teachers can collect evidence of student learning from three sources: Conversation: Providing...
Differentiated instruction is responsive to the learning preferences, interests and readiness of individual learners. Teachers can respond to students’ strengths and needs by differentiating: The content students explore; The process for learning; The products students create to demonstrate their...
