August 9, 2017

Teacher Documents are now accessible directly from the LEARNING SITUATIONS section:  

• For INDIVIDUAL Learning Situations, just click on any course, then on the learning situation you wish to access.  If teacher documents exist, you will see a folder named Teacher in the Google Drive.

• For MULTI-LEVEL Learning Situations, if teacher documents exist, you will see a TEACHER button on the page for the specific learning situation. This will take you to the teacher documents.

• For ALEXANDRIE Learning Situations, the teacher documents have always been accessible directly on the Alexandrie website along with student documents.  This website takes you directly to all documents for the learning situations available on Alexandrie.

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June 29, 2017

Evaluation Grids for Secondary 3 are now available in the TEACHER RESOURCES/GRIDS section.  These grids are identical in content to the BIM evaluation grids, but have been adapted to fit on one page.

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June 28, 2017

The following Learning Situation has been added to the site:

• ANG 5102 LES Social Media and Cyberbullying (Individual)

Thankyou to Roxanne Roy for sharing!​​

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June 12, 2017

The following Learning Situation has been added to the site:

• ANG 5101 LES Social Media (Individual)

Thankyou to Roxanne Roy for sharing!​​​

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June 7, 2017

For teachers looking to offer ANG 5555 next year (until the new optional courses are available), please note that a pretest has been added to the ANG 5555 padlet created by Fran Brandow.  To find this pretest, go to COURSES/OPTIONAL COURSES and click on the ANG 5555 button.  The pretest can be found at the bottom of the padlet.

 

May 30, 2017

The following Learning Situations have been added to the site:

• ANG 3101 LS English Scholarship (Individual)

• ANG 4102 LS Did You Hear About..? (Individual)

• ANG 5101 LS Legalization of Marijuana (Individual)

• Multi-Level LS Exploring Career Possibilities (may also be used as an Individual Learning Situation, for all DBE courses)

Thankyou to Fran Brandow, Sylvie Lafontaine, Barbara Mann and Terri Charchuk for sharing!​​​​

 

The following Learning Situation has been revised:

• ANG 5101 LS Learning English in Schools in Quebec has been separated into a Preparation Booklet and an Interpretation Booklet

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May 2, 2017

We have made some important changes/additions to the website:

• Suggested Evaluation Grids for FBC have been added to the GRIDS section of TEACHER RESOURCES 

• We are reworking the Instructional Grids for FBC and these will be available soon

• Important information on the Optional Courses is available in the COURSES section of the website

• Correction made to the weighting of the 2.2 sub-criteria in ANG 5101 and ANG 5102 Instructional Grids

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April 18, 2017

Some changes have been made to the organization of the site:

• NEWS has been moved to the homepage, so it is always visible!

• The TEACHER RESOURCES section has been reorganized and expanded to include brief explanations of the resources

• A TEACHER TRAINING section has been added to TEACHER RESOURCES with tools to help in the implementation of the new programs as well as other valuable resources for professional development

• CONTACT US has been moved to the ABOUT US section (formerly TEACHERS)

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April 13, 2017

The following Learning Situations have been added to the site:

• ANG 5101 LS Learning English in Schools in Quebec (Individual)

• ANG 5103 LS Learning English in Schools in Quebec (Individual)

Thankyou to Janet Kamoutsis for sharing!​​​​

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April 11, 2017

You can now access the Learning Situations from Alexandrie directly from this site!  Just select LEARNING SITUATIONS from the main menu and click on Alexandrie.  From there, you can select the course you would like learning situations for.  One-stop shopping!

     

We are working on improving the RESOURCES section for each course.  The changes we make are based on what helped our students.  We hope these resources can be helpful to your and your students as well.  Please check them out regularly as they are still under construction!

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April 5, 2017

The following Learning Situation has been added to the site:​

• ANG 5101 Independent Research Project (Individual) (Not actually an LS, but rather a simple project to address some difficulties students have with the evaluation.  Please read the accompanying Teacher's Guide in Teacher Resources/LS Guides.

Thankyou to Terri Charchuk for sharing!​​​

     

The following revisions have been made:

• ANG 5103 LS Exercise Your Influence (Individual)  (Description: more scaffolding added to guide students in writing persuasive texts)

• LS Evaluation Grid for ANG P101 (Description: correction of Rating Scale for Speaking Criteria)

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March 24, 2017

The following Learning Situations have been added to the site:

• ANG 1101 LES Stranded! In Toronto (Individual)

• ANG 4101 LS People and Pets (Individual)

Thankyou to Lori Abrams and Fran Brandow for sharing!​​​

     

The following revisions have been made:

• ANG 1101 LES Restaurant (Individual)  (Description: revision to initial Situation Description and correction of typos)

• LS Evaluation Grids for ANG 3103, 4103 and 5103  (Description: correction of Rating Scale for Evaluation Criteria 3.1)

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March 14, 2017

The following Learning Situations have been added to the site:

• ANG 5103 LS Sweatshops (Individual)

• ANG 5103 LS Exercise Your Influence (Individual)

• ANG P101 LES Qualinet (Individual)

Thankyou to Barbara Mann, Alice Hachey-Bujold and Terri Charchuk for sharing!​

     

An overview of pertinent information for evaluations in CCBE and DBE has been added to TEACHER RESOURCES / Program Information / Overview Documents.  Document name: Overview (Evaluations)

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February 28, 2017

The following Learning Situations have been added to the site:

• ANG 5101 LS This is What I Think (Individual)

• ANG 5102 LS Helping a Friend (Individual)

• The Poutine Challenge (Multi-Level)

Thankyou to Fran Brandow for sharing!​​​

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February 22, 2017

To facilitate teachers having difficulty downloading the ZIP files containing courses descriptions from the MEES Website, a new section has been created in TEACHER RESOURCES called Program Information where the following documents can be easily accessed:

• Overview Documents (Prescriptive Elements, Evaluation, Course Objectives, Progression of Competencies)

• Programmes-Cours-DDE (français)

• Programs-Courses-DED (English)

• Guides-Politiques-Lois (français)

• Guides-Policies-Laws (English)

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February 8, 2017

Check out the Individual and Multi-Level Learning Situation pages!  We have started building an inventory for ESL teachers to use and adapt to their own contexts.