NEW! ETFO'S STEP WEBCASTS: 3 videos from the Elementary Teachers Foundation on Ontario to help Primary, Junior, and Intermediate teachers understand how to use STEPs in their classrooms.
Our STEPs PLC: This year we have been working on comprehension strategies in our PLC. A key area for improvement is developing ways to make learning better through visual supports. We found that Project GLAD provided some excellent examples of the types of key visuals we were looking for. -This is an overview of strategies we thought were worth trying. -This file provides a nice chart for sentence building We are also looking at ways to Organize the information we gather so that our jobs are easier: -ELL Chart for Sept-June record (.xls file) - Class Profile Chart (.xls file) -Oral, Reading, and Writing marks charts (PDF) -Oral, Reading, and Writing marks charts (.XLS) -Short term / absence record sheet (.xls)