Feel free to download any of the following resources to provide ideas for links between subjects. I hope to post more integrated units and teaching ideas as they get completed and submitted. If you have any resources (outlines of integrated units, handouts, student materials etc.) that you do not mind sharing, please e-mail them to me and I will post them and give you credit, unless you do not wish me to do so.
EDES 362- Poetry Resources
EDES 362- Online Articles
EDES 362- Literature Circle Links
EDES 362- Writing Links
EDES 362- Links to the Alberta Program of Studies
EDES 362- Course Materials
Past Presentations
The outline from the "Making it Work in the Middle" presentation (with Jeremy Spink) at the ATA First Year Teachers' Conference on September 29, 2007.
The outline from my "What Are the Middle Years" presentation at the ATA First Year Teachers' Conference on September 20, 2006.
The outline from my "Rethinking Middle Level Curriculum" presentation at the Central Alberta Teachers' Convention, February 10, 2006.
The outline from my "Daily Physical Activity in Any Subject" presentation at the Central Alberta Teachers' Convention, February 9, 2006.
The outline from a presentation called "Curriculum Integration Forum" presented October 21, 2005 at the Manitoba Middle Years Association conference in Winnipeg.
The outline from a presentation called "Keep the 'Art' in Language Arts" presented October 21, 2005 at the Manitoba Middle Years Association conference in Winnipeg.
This is the handout from a session called "Building Leadership Capacity in Middle Schools" presented the Alberta Teachers' Association Middle Years Council Conference, April 29, 2005. The focus of this session was to examine how middle schools are intrinsically set up to build leadership capacity.
The handout from a session I presented at the ATA Middle Years Council conference - April 29, 2005 in Edmonton. This session, "Daily Physical Activity in Any Subject", really looked for ways to physically involve students in their learning.
This is a copy of the handout used for a presentation at the Alberta Middle School Annual Conference - April, 2004. It is very similar to the previous document, but includes some new ideas and is aimed at teachers of all core subjects.
This is a copy of the PowerPoint I used to accompany a presentation at the Alberta Middle School Annual Conference - April 2004. It is an earlier, less refined version of many of the ideas presented elsewhere on this website.
This is the handout I used to accompany a presentation called "Strategies for Deepening Reading Comprehension" that I presented at the Red Deer Public Schools District Inservice in March 2004.
This handout supplements a presentation called "Keeping the Arts in Language Arts" that I presented to the Alberta Middle School Association annual conference in April 2004. It contains many of the same ideas as the "Deepening Reading Comprehension" presentation.
This is a copy of the handout used for a presentation at the Red Deer Public School District inservice day - October, 2001. It contains a variety of ideas for making connections between Language Arts and Social Studies.
These are from similar sessions I co-presented with my colleague Brian Plastow during the 1999-2000 school year. Both sessions focused on ways to involve students kinesthetically in the classroom.
This is a real gem - a project completed by Michael Gutek and Tanner Murray, two middle years students at Red Deer College. This is a compilation of wisdom and resources from a wide variety of middle school teachers. This is a real winner and would be of particular interest to beginning teachers and student teachers.
If you are interested in developing themes of interest to your students, these two documents may be useful. They are the compilation of the questions generated by my eight-grade homeroon class in October, 2003. As James Beane suggests, I asked them two questions:
What questions do you have about yoursefl?
What questions do you have about the world?
We used these questions as a "base" for all of the topics we examined during the course of our studies in Language Arts and Social Studies.
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