Secondary courses – NLPS Learns

Five times a year, Learning Leaders will meet as a district team. the remaining meetings are school based. Each school designs their learning leader portfolios to meet their needs of their learning environment and their learners.

Learning Leaders news

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Secondary

To look forward – To reach the sky – To move beyond

Career Programs and Career Technical Centre

click here to access the CTC website

This CTC program poster will help navigate through the options at CTC.

English Language Arts/English First Peoples (ELA and EFP)

Provincial Grades 10 and 12 Literacy Assessments

The Grade 10 Literacy Assessment assesses student ability to use critical thinking and analysis to make meaning from a diverse array of texts. It also assesses the ability of students to communicate their ideas.

The Grade 12 Literacy Assessment assesses students’ ability to use critical and reflective thinking and analysis to make meaning from a diverse array of texts. It also assesses the ability of students to communicate their ideas, or those found in the texts.

Both are graduation requirements and will be completed during students’ Grade 10-12 years.

Neither of these assessments is based on or attached to any particular course. They are both based on learning and skills across multiple subjects from kindergarten to grade 10.

Teachers of ELA classes may wish to support cross-curricular colleagues with literacy strategies.

English First Peoples

As part of the provincial government’s commitments to truth, reconciliation and anti-racism, the Ministry
of Education is implementing a mandatory course or bundle of credits related to First Peoples as part of
graduation requirements in British Columbia.

In NLPS, as of September, 2022, all students will take English First Peoples 10 courses for their English 10 graduation credit.

This is in addition to other Indigenous culture and perspectives that have been integrated throughout all areas of learning. For example, place based learning and emphasis on indigenous ways of knowing reflect the First Peoples Principles of Learning in the curriculum in every area from K-12. Students will benefit from this knowledge in every aspect of their curricular journeys.

Salish Weave

The Salish Weave collection was donated to NLPS by the University of Victoria. The collection has been divided into themes with various pieces and activities. To take a closer look, please click here

EFP resources

This is a collection of resources, content, stories, art that have been compiled by ELA teachers in NLPS.

Check back frequently as it will change with your feedback!

Land Acknowledgement

The journey towards reconciliation includes ongoing communication about the land and territory on which we learn.

Teaching students to acknowledge territory expresses respect, gratitude and appreciation for Indigenous peoples who have lived and continue to live on the land.

This exercise created by the NDSS English department with inspiration and resources from many places will support you to guide students in writing land acknowledgements that hold those aspects of value and respect for both the past and the present.

Hul’qumi’num Language

Hul’quimi’num language is one of the Coast Salish languages spoken in British Columbia.

Revitalizing the language of the land is vital to the reconciliation process. To understand the relationship of the people to the land, we must understand the beauty and life of the language as it breathes life into inanimate objects and validates them as relations.

Use these resources to support your journey into introducing Hul’quimi’num words in your classes.

Resource recommendations by school site

Each school has a team of English Language Arts and Humanities teachers that have carefully curated the content that students will experience. This database will help for ideas, and also for inter school loans.
If you see something here that you are interested in, contact the school secretary to put you in touch with the learning leader at the school who can lend you one or more of these resources. Please keep in mind that learning resources in schools are purchased through the school budget, and must be returned or replaced to the school it came from. Also, each school has unconditional priority to their onwn resources.

English Studies 12/ English First Peoples 12

With the changes in our current curriculum, there have been many conversations around creating consistent understanding of instruction and assessment in all ELA courses, but especially in English Studies 12.

This one page document summarizes some values statements as discussed by a group on ELA teachers from across the district in 2019.

Diversity in Texts

The Big Ideas in all ELA curricula stress the importance of text being socially, culturally, geographically, and historically constructed. Worldviews and perspectives from around the world and locally are important parts of ELA competencies.

ELA teachers from across the district have been connecting to create a booklist of diverse texts for classroom use. Many of these texts are availbe in your school libraries or through the professional collection.
The Indigenous collection has been recently reviewed and carefully curated to include many local First Nations content.
The Salish Weave is a beautiful collection of Coast Salish art that is available for you to bring to your classroom. Each piece is framed and includes notes from the artist as well as lesson ideas.
Selecting Anti-racism resources means making sure every student in your classroom sees themselves reflected in the content your choose.

Assessment

Assessment Tools

Here are some of the ways to assess your learners both formatively and summatively in ELA and EFP courses.

UDL Assessment planning

UDL is all about providing options and choices for your students so that you can eliminate barriers and give each student an opportunity to succeed both in and outside of school.

How can create a unique grading system that gives students voice, choice and autonomy? How can we transform our grading practices to actually help students learn?

This UDL Grading Flowchart designed by Novak Education can help guide you through your UDL grading process.

Supporting English Language Learners

We help students to develop literacy in English so that they can succeed in both the social and academic environment of the classroom. We focus on inclusive practices that honour cultural identity and social and emotional growth. Tier One support for ELLS may include:

Scaffolding and adaptations
Co-teaching and collaboration
Leveraging funds of knowledge
Content area support and resources
Focus on interactive strategies

Strategies for teaching reading

Phonological & Phonemic Awareness

Phonological awareness is the ability to notice the sound structure of spoken words (Kilpatrick, 2015). Phonemic awareness is the ability to identify, isolate and manipulate sounds. It is a part of phonological awareness.

Phonics

A system for approaching reading that focuses on the relationship between letters and sounds (Kilpatrick, 2015).

Fluency

Reading Words at an adequate rate, with a high level of accuracy, appropriate expression, and understanding (Birsh & Carreker 2018).

Vocabulary

Vocabulary is the knowledge of words and word meanings (NIL, 2007; Honig, Diamond & Gutlohn, 2008).

Comprehension

Comprehension is making sense of what we read. Comprehension depends on good word recognition, fluency, vocabulary, wordly knowledge, and language ability (Birsh & Carreker 2018).

Secondary

To look forward - To reach the sky - To move beyond

Work Experience Forms

NLPS WEX Program Guide for 2022/2023

Phonological & Phonemic Awareness

Phonics​

Fluency

Vocabulary

Comprehension

Adolescent Reading Skills Overview

Graphic Organizers to support reading skills in all curricular areas

Questions about teaching, learning, resources or technology?​

Dufferin Learning Center

PODCASTS for ELA/EFP

The act of listening to a narrative helps your students become better learners. Podcasts are a screen-free, multi-tasking, ear-stimulating and eye-opening way to deliver content.

Whether you are in-person, remote, hybrid, flipped or blended, podcasts can enhance your teaching in meaningful way.

Samples

How single point rubrics work

Examples

universal strategies for ells

ELL support teachers:overview of service

ELL teachers by school

Phonics

Questions about teaching, learning, resources or technology?

ELL support teachers:
overview of service