My Student in Middle Years: A Resource for Educators and School Leaders
Integratables
The following resources, available on the Manitoba Education and Early Childhood Learning website, address integratable elements of education in Middle Years programming.
- Career Development
- Differentiated Instruction
- Diversity Education
- Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)
- English as an Additional Language (EAL)
- First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Education
- Literacy with Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
- Multilevel Classroom
- Student Services
Career Development
Career development is a lifelong process of managing learning, work, leisure, and transitions, in order to become a reliable manager of work and personal life. “Middle Years Career development programs are exceptionally engaging to adolescents, providing them with opportunities to learn about and develop their strengths, interests, abilities, as well as their personal beliefs and values” (Successful Futures for All Students, p. 10).
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A Career Development Resource for Parents guides parents in supporting their adolescent children as they explore and make decisions regarding career options.
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Focus on the Future: Career Planning Begins at Home is a handbook for parents of children in the Middle Years that helps encourage parents and children to begin thinking about and discussing career options.
- Manitoba Sourcebook: Guidance Education: Connections to Compulsory Curriculum Areas, Kindergarten to Grade 12 contains learning outcomes connections for Middle Years: Career Component, Self and Work.
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Successful Futures for All Students: A Guide to Career Development Programming for Manitoba School Leaders illustrates how Manitoba schools can integrate career development concepts, programming, and resources with curriculum outcomes in their classrooms. This resource shows how career development programming helps Manitoba students complete school and transition successfully to post-secondary education and/or the workplace.
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Career Cruising is a career-exploration website. Manitoba Education and Early Childhood Learning no longer pays for school licences for Career Cruising.
- Career Cruising’s ccSpringboard contains assessment tools, engaging and detailed career profiles, and comprehensive post-secondary information. This program can be purchased from Career Cruising.
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myBlueprint is an online education, career, and life planner used by over 100 schools districts across Canada. The Manitoba edition of myBlueprint is an engaging, user-friendly, and intuitive program directly tied to the provincial curriculum. Students will discover their interests, explore new post-secondary and career-oriented opportunities, and build the necessary skills to succeed in life after high school, all while tracking their progress in an interactive, easy-to-share digital portfolio.
- Success for All Learners: A Handbook on Differentiating Instruction, a print resource for Kindergarten to Grade 12 schools, offers teaching and learning strategies to support differentiation in Manitoba classrooms. This resource is not available online but may be found in your school library.
Differentiated Instruction
Classrooms today reflect a wide diversity of learners. Meeting the needs of these learners can be a challenge to teachers. Ensuring that all students are interested, engaged, and successful in their learning can be achieved through differentiated instruction.
- Success for All Learners: A Handbook on Differentiating Instruction, a print resource for Kindergarten to Grade 12 schools, offers teaching and learning strategies to support differentiation in Manitoba classrooms. This resource is not available online but may be found in your school library.
Diversity Education
Public schools in Manitoba offer inclusive learning environments where students feel they are safe and where they feel they belong.
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Belonging, Learning, and Growing: Diversity Education is a website that supports educators and youth with resources related to diversity and social justice issues.
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Supporting Transgender and Gender Diverse Students in Manitoba Schools provides guidelines for ensuring that schools are safe, respectful and equitable places for transgender and gender diverse students while supporting their individual process.
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Q & A Supporting Transgender & Gender Diverse Students in Manitoba is a resource and tool for Manitoba school divisions and schools to develop their own policies, protocols, and/or guidelines related to supporting transgender and gender diverse students.
Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)
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Education for Sustainable Development is one of the priority action areas of Manitoba Education and Early Childhood Learning. Teachers are encouraged to incorporate key themes of sustainable development into all areas of the curriculum. Middle Years students are at an age when they are especially interested in many aspects of ESD. Community service learning is one way to connect to ESD and to engage Middle Years learners.
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Education for Sustainable Development: Middle and Senior Years, K–12: Information for Parents is a parent brochure that lists the ESD-related themes and concepts addressed in Middle and Senior Years.
English as an Additional Language (EAL)
- The English as an Additional Language website provides an overview of EAL resources and funding guidelines.
- Aboriginal English as an Additional Language: Background and Initiatives lists initiatives and resources that support Indigenous EAL learners.
- The Languages We Speak: Aboriginal Learners and English as an Additional Language: A Literature Review of Promising Approaches and Practices provides a review of the literature with respect to the theories, research, and perspectives presented in teaching standard English (SE) to Indigenous EAL learners, with a particular focus on schools and school systems in which English is the primary medium of instruction.
First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Education
First Nations, Métis, and Inuit education is one of the priorities of Manitoba Education and Early Childhood Learning. All schools in Manitoba are expected to integrate First Nations, Métis, and Inuit perspectives into all curricula. Information and resources on Incorporating Aboriginal Perspectives and Native Studies are available on the department’s website, along with a variety of curriculum and support documents.
- The Indigenous Education website provides links to First Nations, Métis, and Inuit education resources.
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The Common Curriculum Framework for Aboriginal Language and Culture Programs: Kindergarten to Grade 12 supports educators in developing learning resources for Indigenous languages and programs in their schools.
- Integrating Aboriginal Perspectives into Curricula: A Resource for Curriculum Developers, Teachers, and Administrators assists Manitoba curriculum developers and educators to integrate First Nations, Métis, and Inuit perspectives into new and existing curricula. It provides direction for the integration of these perspectives within the various curricula taught in Manitoba classrooms.
- Kindergarten to Grade 12 Aboriginal Languages and Cultures in Manitoba: Manitoba Curriculum Framework of Outcomes provides the basis for Kindergarten to Grade 12 Indigenous languages and cultures programming in Manitoba schools.
- Native Studies: Middle Years (Grades 5 to 8): A Teacher’s Resource Book provides units to help add Indigenous content and to generate interest in First Nations, Métis, and Inuit issues in social studies, English language arts, and science.
- Native Studies Middle Years (Grades 5 to 8): A Teacher’s Resource Book Framework supports teachers in incorporating First Nations, Métis, and Inuit perspectives in a theme-based curricular approach.
Literacy with Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
“Literacy with ICT is choosing and using ICT, responsibly and ethically, to support critical and creative thinking about information and about communication as citizens of the global community. Literacy with ICT consists of critical and creative thinking, ethics and responsibility, and ICT literacy.”
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Literacy with ICT Is for Me! A Parent Handbook on Learning with Information and Communication Technology provides a practical view of Literacy with ICT in the classroom. Parents or guardians will find practical ideas about supporting children’s use of ICT at home in safe and responsible ways.
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Two Media Literacy websites were created by Manitoba Education and Early Childhood Learning to support the Media Literacy Week Celebrations in 2010 and 2011. You will find classroom resources on these sites:
- Blurred Images encourages young people to strengthen their sense of self so they are better able to see through or brush off any negative messages they encounter through the media or elsewhere.
- Digital We reminds young people of their rights and responsibilities as digital citizens.
Multilevel Classroom
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The document Independent Together: Supporting the Multilevel Learning Community explains the philosophy and best practices of multilevel classrooms.
- The website Independent Together: Supporting the Multilevel Learning Community focuses on multilevel classrooms, which are built on the premise that diversity and time are not challenges to be overcome but assets and resources to promote learning. Learners, educators, and parents are engaged in developing independent learners within a student-centred multilevel classroom community and in celebrating the uniqueness of each learner.
Student Services
- The Student Services website provides several Autism Spectrum Disorder Vignettes for the Middle Years.
