These documents have been developed to support teachers as they plan for and implement remote learning in NLPS
When planning for instruction, the well-being of the students needs to be our priority. After we have considered the well-being of our learner we also need to ensure that what we are asking our students to do is meaningful, reasonable and inclusive.
Use the documents below to help guide you in your planning:
Literacy Ideas for Learning From Home K-7
The purpose of this document is to share “lesson ideas” that teachers can offer to students in NLPS. Teachers are invited to include these ideas in weekly communications with students.
Here are some lesson ideas that Teachers can include in their weekly communications with families. They are low tech ideas that all families can access.
In addition to the three curricular Core Competencies – Communication, Thinking, and Personal and Social – the Physical and Health Education (PHE) curriculum focuses on well-being and the connections between physical, intellectual, mental, and social health. Social and emotional learning (SEL) approaches also support positive environments, provide techniques to promote well-being and positive mental health, and support students who may have increased needs.
With the gradual return of students to the classroom, staff will be providing opportunities for students to feel connected and to develop Social Emotional Learning (SEL) skills
Teachers should consider how to build in behavioural competencies central to SEL: self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision making.
You are the adults in schools with whom young people have relationships and in whom they trust. During this period, with online or over-the-phone communication and/or instruction taking place, there are opportunities to check-in. Here are some samples of what it could look like:
Sample SEL Calendar link generously shared from Nicole W. from Burnaby
During Covid-19 (CASEL): dedicated covid-19 webpage providing guidelines and resources for parents, caregivers, and educators.
Check out the “Keeping Healthy” section of the Keep Learning website. It has a number of resources that may be helpful for educators, students and parents/caregivers
WE Schools @ Home virtual program: gives parents and teachers free educational resources and daily interactive programming to support well-being, service-learning, and at-home education.
Share these resources for students and families to REACH OUT.
Microsoft Teams is a great place to host meetings and communicate with your students. You can invite your students directly, or you can send them a link once the meeting is created. Simply create a meeting in your calendar, select a time, and join the meeting.
Video includes setting up a meeting, inviting students through their Learn68 accounts and adjusting the meeting options so that all students are attendees.
Teams Meetings Features
This Video gives an overview of how to set up students as meeting attendees (instead of presenters), and how to control student audio, video and end the meeting for all participants.
Setting Up Meetings Using Links
Video includes how to set up a meeting and use the link generated to invite students to ta Teams meeting either through Google classroom or Microsoft Outlook (email), and how to keep participants emails private.
Parents or Students Accessing Meetings.
How a parent or student can enter into a teams meeting when receiving an email from Teams. This also includes a quick overview of student expectations while in a Meeting.
Managing Teams Attendees
This Video gives an overview of how to remove students and add as presenters during a meeting with your students. (1 min)
Pinning a File for Easy Access
This Video gives an overview of how to pin a file for easy access at the top of a channel. This includes files that are out of the channel that you want to share. (4 min)
Pinning a Website in a Channel
This Video gives an overview of how to pin a website for easy access at the top of a channel. It also gives some ideas of how to organize your channels for productivity (4 min)
Microsoft Outlook
Video includes navigating to your calendar, mail and contacts. It also shows you how to set up a contacts group (distribution list) and bcc when when sending out an email to a group.
Open educational resources are tools and supports that are available at no cost. They’re designed to support learning for K–12 students and adult learners.
The Keep Learning section offers suggestions for parents and caregivers to keep their children learning at home.
Online resource of teaching materials, lessons, and research relevant to the K-12 BC curriculum
See what school districts across Canada are doing.
Collaborative repository of websites, resources and online activities.
Resources for learning, creating, having fun and staying active, just like at school.
En français & in English
Access to Pearson e-textbooks (math and science) through registration. This is available until May 25, 2020. Mathology Little Books (English, French) K-3. Lessons in Mathology are open for 90 days. ERPI French resources (Grades 1 to 12)
Discover the Universe is an astronomy training program offered by Canadian astronomers to supportteachers and educators. It offers free online workshops and webinars, as well as downloadable educational resources in English and in French.
Visual coding app on iPads to introduce young learners to programming their own interactive stories and games, solving problems, designing projects, and expressing themselves creatively.
Daily wonders are provided to promote curiosity and exploration. The intriguing questions are explored it in a variety of ways.
TumbleMath is a collection of math picture books accompanied by supplementary materials such as lesson plans and quizzes.
Personal safety skills, online safety, friendships/relationships, through games, booklets, and activities.
Powered by Common Sense Media (+)
Free collection of online learning experiences curated by Common Sense Media to assist teachers and families in planning their day during school closures.
Has a strong social emotional component and resources click here.
Astronauts in the International Space Station read stories.
Children’s story books read by actors (Kevin Costner, Oprah Winfrey, Viola Davis)
Lessons using Scholastic Canada tools, like Bookflix, Storyworks or DynaMath, in a day by day, or week by week schedule.
Supplemental ideas for students to use combining many of the scholastic tools (eg. Dav Pilkey reads a chapter of Dog Man).
Student’s and teachers can access audio books, digital books and magazines and more.
Includes BookFlix, Literacy Place Shared Reading, True Flix, ScienceFlix and Scholastic Go. Site has content for all subjects.
Live interactive visits to the zoo and videos to learn about animals.
Free program to develop, games, coding skills, music.
Coding activities from beginner to advanced.
Check out the 3 Act Tasks created by Graham Fletcher. They are a great way to engage students in active problem solving.
Free to teachers – Online subscription books for K-5 students.
Many NLPS teachers currently have subscriptions and teacher accounts.
A great collection of estimation activities that are offered in an engaging and interactive way.
Lessons for teachers and students on digital literacy and safety online.
Painting and Drawing app.
Audio books for children, teens and adults.
Movie Maker that is free on most IOS devices.
An interactive online tool that students can work through learning activities at their own pace and makes students thinking about mathematical concepts visible.
Audio books students can stream directly to their devices
Screencasting and screen capture Chrome extension. Show exactly what you’re seeing with recorded videos and screenshots that can be annotated and shared instantly.
Find a variety of lessons and games for students K-12.
Check out the amazing resources that the BCAMT has up on their website. Lesson ideas and rich tasks for K-12. There are even lessons aligned with books that are available to download right off the BCAMT website!
Have students start a conversation and see if they can figure out a reason why each of the images doesn’t belong. K-12
A collection of interactive simulation activities for science and math K-12.
This site has many open middle problems. An open middle meaning that there are multiple ways to approach and ultimately solve the problem.
Lots of tasks, activities and videos for teachers, students and families building on research to teach math differently and to increase student engagement and achievement.
Activities range K-12.
Game based resource to support learning to read, from letters and sounds to reading full sentences.
Computer version free. Paid app for iPad available.
The CEMC courseware materials feature grade 7 to 12 lessons, interactive activities, enrichment challenges, and unlimited opportunity for practice with feedback. The courseware is online, free to use, and does not require registration.
The Problem of the Week provides grade 3 and ups with an ongoing opportunity to solve mathematical problems.
Includes also resources for home (4-12).
Students can now explore this idea in new and unique ways and can manipulate their creations to represent their thinking in multiple ways.
We recognize that there is a lot of “new” in the world of teaching right now. New technologies, new apps, new ways of communicating, new ways of teaching and new ways of learning.
Due to the shift to in-class learning, we will not be hosting COL Sessions for Educators on Thursday June 4th.
Instead, we will be using this week to pre-record sessions that will be posted to NLPS Learns for staff to view at your convenience. Check back on Monday June 8th to view our new sessions!
On June 11th you are invited to join the Syeyutsus Family & National Best-selling author Bob Joseph for a book discussion about The 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act.
For more information and the link to join click here: https://syeyutsus.sd68.bc.ca/
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