CSL recommended teaching resources can help teachers and teacher-librarians support all students growth as literate individuals in an increasingly complex global society. These resources facilitate co-planning, teaching and assessing of learning experiences in the learning commons and although may be developed in a particular area, they align with most provincial and territorial curricular mandates and will have broad appeal. Teaching resources are recommended on the basis of accuracy, currency, accessibility/ease of use or adaptation, relevance, pertinence and merit of research base. Why “reinvent the wheel”? Use or adapt these teaching resources to enhance and support learning and teaching in the school library learning commons.
Media Smarts is a Canadian not-for-profit charitable organization for digital and media literacy providing many teacher resources. Teach teachers to use resources from Media Smarts to explore digital and media literacy. Teacher resources on this site include Digital and Media Literacy Outcomes by Province & Territory.
The Digital Human Library (dHL) is a new kind of library that addresses the need for connections-based learning through the curation of volunteer human resources(experts) that are catalogued and available for loan virtually to teachers, students, and librarians. Discover new ways to leverage technologies and connect learners to each other and experts around the world.
The Association of Library Consultants and Coordinators of Ontario (TALCO) provides ideas, resources, and iterates the importance of libraries in preparing students as “thoughtful and ethical” digital citizens.
This joint project between the Ontario School Library Association (OSLA) and TALCO includes examples about the role of the teacher-librarian in supporting the student and teacher in the curriculum-based student inquiry process. The print poster reflects an online graphic with hyperlinks to supporting resources appropriate for teachers and teacher-librarians, Grades 1-8. (English and French.)
OSLA Helping Students with Financial Literacy
In an OSLA financial literacy project funded by the Ontario Ministry of Education, students receive support for spending wisely.
The Ontario Library Association offers a Human Library Toolkit, with advice and resources for libraries, including school libraries, to help people connect with individuals in their community.
Quebec Ministry of Education:
The Inquiry Process / Le Processus de Recherche
The Quebec Ministry of Education provides a model for implementing the inquiry process.
Digital Citizenship / Citoyenneté numérique
The Quebec Ministry of Education provides a model for preparing students to be respectful, protected, educated digital citizens.
The British Columbia Teacher-Librarians’ Association (BCTLA) provides a model of inquiry based learning for classrooms and school libraries plus integration tips and planning guides. Posters in English and French and other supports are available to download from the BCTLA website.
BCTLA Posters: Honesty: The Ethics of Information Use / Correct: L’emploi éthique de l’information
Using the value of “honesty” as an acrostic, this BCTLA poster summarizes key points of ethical information use for students and was designed to be used with BCTLA’s The Points of Inquiry.
Alberta School District 76 (Medicine Hat): Inquiry Skills and Search Help LiveBinder
Teacher-librarians in this school district created support resources for inquiry.
The Saskatchewan School Library Association (SSLA) partners with the Saskatchewan Teachers Federation and Ministry of Education to create understanding and use of inquiry in teaching and learning. This digital archive of their work is complete with video examples, templates and tools for professional learning.
ECOO: #ECOOcodes
The Educational Computing Organization of Ontario (ECOO) shares a collection of resources in support of Computational Thinking and Coding within Ontario schools. Also available is ‘A Constructionist Approach to Computational Thinking’, as well as resources related to Hour of Code