PPT slides from February 1, 2012 workshop for teacher candidates

1. Finding Classroom
Resources for your
Practicum:
Math Manipulatives, Science
Kits, Children’s Literature, and
More!

2. Monique
Flaccavento
http://bitstrips.com

3. http://bitstrips.com

4. By the end of today’s session, you’ll
be able to find:
 Classroom resources for your practicum
(math manipulatives, textbooks, science
kits, children’s books, and more) by
searching the library catalogue
 Ministry-approved textbooks by searching the
Ontario Ministry of Education’s Trillium List
Outcomes

5.  Age / grade-appropriate literature for your
students by searching the Children’s
Literature Comprehensive Database and
Novelist
 Age / grade-appropriate online newspaper
and magazine
articles, encyclopaedias, primary
sources, and more by searching publicly
licensed Knowledge Ontario databases
Outcomes, continued

6. Catalogue Searches
http://www.library.utoronto.ca/oise

7. http://www.library.utoronto.ca/oise/

8. Trillium List
http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/trilliumlist/

9. 5 minutes
Activity #1

10. Click on Research Guides

11. Click on Education Resources for
Initial Teacher Education

12. http://guides.library.utoronto.
ca/TeacherCandidates

13. Children’s Literature
Comprehensive Database
http://go.utlib.ca/cat/7911527

14. What are KO Licensed Databases?
http://www.knowledgeontario.ca
/AboutYou/Education/K12

15. http://eresources.knowledgeontario.ca

16. http://www.tdsb.on.ca/libraries/cat.a
sp?schoolNo=9

17. P/J -- Kids InfoBits
J/I – InfoTrac Junior
I/S -- Canada in Context
3 Knowledge Ontario Databases

18. Explore Kids InfoBits, InfoTrac
Junior, or Student Resource
Centre.
1. What is included in this database?
2. How could you use this database with
your students?
Please be prepared to share your
observations with the group.
Activity #2

19. Monique Flaccavento
monique.flaccavento@utoronto.ca
416-978-1867
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