Review the Tools and Resources below.
Learning Styles, Learning Differences
- Check out the University of Toronto Resource Library for learning strategies help students learn new skills related to organization, SQ5R reading strategy, note-taking, writing and studying. Learn strategies that you can pass onto your students.
- Learning Disabilities 35% of children with learning disabilities drop out of high school. This is twice the rate of students without learning disabilities. Learn how you can support these students.
- Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is an educational framework based on research in the learning sciences, including cognitive neuroscience, that guides the development of flexible learning environments that can accommodate individual learning differences
- How to Support Gifted Students click here for a list of great resources and videos.
- Learn about the Ontario Accessibility Guidelines to help you support students with disabilities. It will take approximately 30 minutes to complete. Enjoy the course!
- Yale Centre for Dyslexia and Creativity — loads of resources!
Math
- Khan Academy With over 3,200 videos on everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history and hundreds of skills to practice, we’re on a mission to help you learn what you want, when you want, at your own pace.
- Illuminations is another wonderful web resource for volunteers.
- Mathify is a free online math help for students in Grades 6-10. Mathify is funded by the Ontario government and administered by TVO’s Independent Learning Centre.
Early Literacy
- Mem Fox Read Aloud Demonstration and resources.
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