Vancouver Island West Teachers' Union

Professional Development Page

School Reps/Committee Members

Member/school Contact information
Joanne Folkins
GRSS/Chair
250-283-2538
email jfolkins@cablerocket.net

Cathy Nesbitt
RWES/Treasurer

250-283-2220
email mnesbitt@island.net
Dave Wills
CMESS
250-934-6305
email dwills@cablerocket.com
Carrie Reis
ZESS
email creis@viw.sd84.bc.ca
Yvonne Lord
KESS
email ylord@viw.sd84.bc.ca
or ylord@uniserve.com

Professional Development Forms
Expense Claim Form

Teacher On Call Form
Summer Institute Form

Professional Development Dates for 2004/2005 and 2005/2006


Teacher Resource Bank
The purpose of this teacher resource bank is to allow us to share different lessons, ideas and materials that we have found successful. If you have materials you would like to have included, please send them in electronic format to Yvonne Lord, ylord@uniserve.com. New subject areas will be added as new materials require them!

Please note that we cannot post material that is copyrighted by anyone other than the author. All of the materials herein are copyright the author, and are freely available for in-class use. For any other uses, please contact the author. (or Yvonne Lord to get contact information for the author)

English

Mythology Project - for Grade 10. Uses Myth by Moira Kerr and John Bennet, Copp Clark
(1966)-submitted by Joanne Folkins, GRSS Page 1, Page 2, Page 3, Page 4

 

Science

Spaghetti Bridge-Building Projects- a week of active learning topped by destruction in a positive way! Kids love this! Any age from Kindergarten on up to Grade 12. Submitted by Yvonne Lord, KESS Page 1

Ecology Definitions Review (grade 7/8) -a matching exercise on definitions of producer, carnivore, herbivore kinds of vocabulary. Submitted by Yvonne Lord, KESS Page 1


Useful Teacher Websites

Do you know of useful websites that have teacher resources? Send me the link and a short blurb about what kind of material can be found there!

 

TeAchnology.com offers teachers FREE access to 27,000+ lesson plans, 6,350+ printable worksheets, rubrics, educational games, teaching tips, advice from expert teachers, current education news, teacher downloads, web quests, 256,000+ reviewed web sites and teacher tools for creating exciting classroom instruction http://www.teach-nology.com/

 

If you have difficulties with this page or the documents linked to it, please contact Yvonne Lord at ylord@uniserve.com