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McGuinty Government Launches Teacher Resource Bank

More Than 80,000 Teachers Can Now Share Teaching Aids Online

    TORONTO, Jan. 29  - More Ontario students will succeed because their
teachers can access excellent teaching resources created by their peers, said
Education Minister Kathleen Wynne today.
    "We have thousands of teachers who have developed excellent teaching
resources that spark the imagination and strenghten literacy and numeracy
skills with their students," said Wynne at St. Monica Catholic School. "Now
through our new online resource bank, those resources can be shared with more
than 80,000 other teachers. Hundreds of thousands of Ontario students will
reap the rewards."
    The Ontario Educational Resource Bank offers lesson plans, activities,
and multimedia items to Kindergarten to Grade 12 teachers and students at 55
participating English-language school boards.
    French-language schools currently have access to more than 800 online
resources through Service d'apprentissage médiatisé franco-ontarien.
French-language boards can use the Ontario Educational Resource Bank starting
in 2007-08.
    Teachers and students can access the resource bank at elearningontario.ca
with a user name and password that's provided by each participating school
board. Teachers can also add their favourite teaching resources or adapt
others to match the needs of their students.
    

    Examples of some of the resources available to teachers include:

    -  An interactive lesson for Grade 7 students on changing paragraphs from
       boring to exciting by using descriptive words.
    -  A simulation for Grade 9 science students on designing the electrical
       system for a house.
    -  Animated lessons and interactive maps for Grade 10 history students to
       learn about World War II.
    -  A game for kindergarten students that challenges them to match
       coloured shapes with coloured bears.
    
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    "I am always looking for new ideas to get my students to take a greater
interest in learning", said St. Monica's Grade 7 teacher Richard Walo. "This
online interactive resource will allow me to enhance curriculum delivery."
    The McGuinty government has recently made other important resources
available online for teachers and students:
    

    -  More than 900 high school students this semester have customized their
       education this school year with one of 29 online courses.
    -  The Leading & Learning website curriculum.org/leadingandlearning,
       offers professional development to teachers and principals on
       leadership skills that contribute to student achievement.
    -  Curriculum documents have been reorganized on the ministry's website
       to make it easier for teachers to find the information they need.
    

    These new online resources will help more young students establish solid
reading, writing and math skills, and give teens more learning choices while
working towards graduation. The government has set targets of 75 per cent of
students achieving provincial literacy and numeracy standards by 2008 and an
85 per cent high school graduation rate by 2010-11.
    "We need to find new and innovative ways to reach every student," said
Wynne. "That's why we are giving teachers access to more interactive,
multimedia and web-based resources so they can get more of their students
engaged in learning."

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