Author(s): University of Ontario - Ontario Institute For Studies in Education
Date: March, 2012
Summary
ESL Infusion provides researchers, teachers, and teacher-educators with resources to develop their professional knowledge around English as a Second Language teaching and English language learners in the K to 12 classrooms. It provides videos, research, policy and other resources.
Website: ESL lnfusion
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Author(s): OECD - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Date: February, 2012
Summary
Drawing on data from the OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), this report examines the performance of students throughout the world with immigrant backgrounds and compares it to that of their native counterparts. As well as providing information on countries' approaches to the integration of immigrants, it looks at other factors that could influence immigrant students' peformance - such as their attitudes to school, their motivation and learning strategies as well as their social background and the language spoken at home - giving valuable implications for educational policy.
Website: Where Immigrant Students Succeed Online PDF
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Author(s): Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Date: February, 2012
Summary
Migrant education is high on the policy agenda in many OECD countries. While the integration of immigrants into the labour market has been extensively researched, focusing on outcomes for their children and reviewing education policies at the international level has rarely been done. The OECD Thematic Review on Migrant Education will focuses on the education outcomes of children of immigrants, with an emphasis on ‘schools’ (pre-school, primary school, and secondary school), while noting that the process of integration is multi-directional, interactive, and non-linear. The main overarching policy question of the project is: What policies will promote successful education outcomes for first and second generation migrants? The project looks at access, participation , and learning outcomes of immigrant students.
Website: Migrant Education
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Author(s): Settlement Workers in Schools (SWIS) Toronto
Date: January, 2012
Summary
A short video, available in 14 languages, follows a family's parent-teacher interview with their child's grade 4 teacher. This video helps parents learn what to expect at a parent-teacher interview. It shows how important the parent-teacher interview is and can help guide the discussion with both the teacher and the child.
Website: Parent Teacher Interview videos
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Author(s): Lower Mainland ESL Assessment Consortium of British Columbia
Date: January, 2012
Summary
The Lower Mainland ESL Assessment Consortium was established by members of the British Columbia Lower Mainland School Boards. Its purpose is to consider various issues related to the assessment of students who come from homes where the language spoken is not English. Consortium activities include the development of assessment instruments, cross-district cooperation in the development of ESL support levels, and the implementation of assessment research. The website consists of ESL school board contacts for the Lower Mainland as recent publications.
Website: ESL Consortium
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Author(s): Ministry of Children and Family Development, Fraser Health, BC Mental Health & Addictions Services, BC Children's Hospital Foundation, RBC Children's Mental Health Project
Date: January, 2012
Summary
Mindcheck.ca assists young people to better understand distress they are experiencing and to link them to sources of help that will enable them to learn skills and strategies to manage these problems. Being able to recognize symptoms and deal with them early in life increases the chances of better long-term outcomes and positive mental health across the lifespan.
Mental health challenges and substance use problems often start in adolescence and the young adult years. Research tells us that intervening early can prevent problems from worsening to the point where professional help is needed. Mental health disorders seldom appear in full bloom. They are usually preceded by signs of emotional distress and difficulties in day-to-day activities.
Though not specifically designed for newcomer children, this site may still help older newcomer children identify their mental health needs and connect them with support.
Website: Mind Check
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Author(s): UNICEF
Date: January, 2012
Summary
Communicating with Children is a resource pack that facilitates the process of learning about the critical importance of communication that is age- appropriate and child-friendly, holistic, positive, strengths-based and inclusive. Effective communication is a two-way process for sharing ideas and knowledge that involves understanding people: their needs, skills, beliefs, values, societies and cultures.
Messages that include children's needs, perspectives and points of view can make a difference in thier development: behaviourally (imitating sharing or imitating aggression), socially (making friends or bullying their classmates in school or on the internet); cognitively (learning school preparedness skills or developing short attention spans) and even physically (learning balanced nutrition or developing bad eating habits).
Website: Communicating with Children
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Author(s): Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP), Candian Council on Learning (CCL), British Columbia School Trustees Association (BCSTA)
Date: January, 2012
Summary
Since the Early Development Instrument (EDI) was implemented in British Columbia in 2001, many early learning initiatives have been undertaken by school districts, government and communities. This study addresses the question of whether targeted communitybased initiatives can reduce vulnerabilities, as identified by the EDI, prior to school entry. The study investigates neighbourhoods and/or communities in 10 school districts where EDI results have identified reduced vulnerabilities. These school districts applied to be part of the study, as each believed that newly-implemented ECD programs were responsible for the improved EDI results. The study uses narrative to document promising program practices and their perceived impact on families, child development and social issues; it provides evidence of effective practice through participatory and reflective methodologies resulting in new insights for policy makers in school districts and communities.
Document: EDI in BC
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Author(s): Canadian Council for Refugees
Date: December, 2011
Summary
The present paper is the research component of a larger project launched by the Canadian Council for Refugees in October 2005 on the topic of a “Gender-based Approach to Settlement”. The goal of the project is to build the capacity of the settlement sector to apply a gender-based analysis in the advocacy for and the development, implementation and evaluation
of settlement programs and services.
The document is divided into two main sections: Section I provides definitions and clarifications for the relevant key concepts and procedures; Section II is a review of a selection of research studies already undertaken on gender dimensions of settlement in several areas.
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Author(s): BC TEAL
Date: December, 2011
Summary
The Association of British Columbia Teachers of English as an Additional Language (BC TEAL) is an organization of educators dedicated to the growth and development of the profession of English language teaching. The BC TEAL Association helps Members better serve English language learners in realizing their goals and ensures accountability through research and practical experience through professional confernces, networking events, dialogue, and newsletters.
Website: BC TEAL
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