Teaching Resources

Come visit the Art Gallery of Ontario with your students! Engage your students with art in our permanent collection and special exhibitions. Develop your students’ art appreciation and visual literacy skills through our thematic and cross-curricular programs that encourage personal connections and explore relevant issues. Bring visual arts to life in your classroom with AGO Teacher Programs! Connect with AGO educators and other elementary, secondary and early childhood educators at events, workshops, studio classes and custom programs designed for experienced teachers and teachers-in-training to meet your professional development needs.

This annotated bibliography contains a list of current resources on differentiated instruction.  These resources were identified and reviewed by members of the Curriculum, Resources and Research sub-committee of OSSTF/FEESO’s Educational Services Committee.

A number of lessons designed to explore the topic of homelessness in Canada through a variety of subjects including Drama, Social Sciences, and Media.

A series of lessons / units for kindergarten through to grade 12 organized around the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, and promoting active, global citizenship. All lessons are linked to the Ontario curriculum and the OSLA Information Studies document.

CHF's ”Show What you Know" Media Arts Contest. This contest focuses on the creation of a multimedia project in order to allow students to think critically and create messages in a variety of forms. The projects developed by students (Grades 1-12) will focus on ANY issue that impacts the rural poor. Possible topics may include the environment, food security or environmental degradation. Final Projects are due on May 13, 2011. Prizes will be awarded May 20, 2011.

EduGAINS is an ever-changing site where all educators involved in Grades K-12 teaching and learning can access a wealth of resources and information to enhance their own learning, and the learning of others.

Created by ABC CANADA Literacy Foundation in 1999, Family Literacy Day® (FLD) is a national initiative that promotes the importance of reading and learning together as a family. Every year, on January 27, families and communities across Canada celebrate this special day at literacy-themed events coordinated by literacy organizations, schools and libraries. The Family Literacy Day website features tips, information and resources to help you celebrate this day.

The Resource Bank contains more than 3,000 high-quality digital resources - such as lesson plans, student activities, and multimedia objects - for Kindergarten through Grade 12. The Ontario Educational Resource Bank is password protected. Contact your local school board for the username and password.

This website and the training components that complement it are a joint project of the Ontario Teachers’ Federation and Le Centre ontarien de prévention des agressions. Together they have built a multi-faceted bullying prevention project designed to benefit teachers and their fellow school staff members, along with parents, school communities, and, most of all, students.

Subject Associations in Ontario provide teachers with news and information about the curriculum and links to learning resources related to their subject areas.

Free teacher resources and curriculum units to support curriculum in a variety of subject areas.

Education for Development helps children and youth to explore the causes of global poverty and inequity and to envision the possibility of a better world. These teacher resources take a multidisciplinary approach to learning that aims to foster global citizenship in young people.