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Let's Talk is our conference discussion centre. This is your opportunity to dialogue on-line with other participants in the conference -- rather like a giant staff room. Just like real staff rooms, this is a place for professional, lively discussions appropriate for public spaces.

The Beginning Teacher discussion area is available only to our beginning teacher, occasional teacher and teacher candidate participants. Similarly, the Mentor Teacher discussion area is open only to our mentor teacher participants. In both cases, an experienced teacher helps facilitate the discussions.
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hi i'm having a hard time with many of the pages dealing with occasional teachers. many of them come up blank. please help if you can, where else can these be found
thanks

Occasional Teaching
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I would like to pass along this "good news" item about mentoring and professional development. There are some great opportunities for new and experienced teachers to design their own professional development through provincial and local funding initiatives. The project outlined below came about as a response to needs expressed by teachers at a First Five Years ETFO-WR committee workshop on teaching Drama. We started with some "what if" conversations, filled out some simple paperwork to ask...

Mentoring, Stories
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Thinking of returning to school to become an elementary teacher. Graduated with BA nearly ten years ago and hating my desk job. I'm crazy organized (anal), hate my desk job b/c I feel stifled and love "presentations" (anything where I can be in front of people talking). It's the actual "teaching" part that I'm not sure about. I haven't the foggiest idea how to make kids learn (despite having an infant daughter).

Does teacher's college teach you "how to" teach or do some people just...

Mentoring, Questions
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It seems like children these days are more energetic than ever. What are some of your favourite ways of getting the children to simmer down?

Classroom Management, Tips and Tricks
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