Youth is one of the RCMP’s national strategic priorities. The RCMP’s National Youth Services is responsible for delivering the RCMP’s National Youth Strategy. The Strategy aims to provide educational and awareness tools and resources for youth, police officers, educators and government officials, as well as for others who work with youth. National Youth Services hosts […]
Many of the choices we make as adults stem from the values that were taught to us as children. Teachers advise parents, and they guide students in so many ways beyond the confines of the curriculum. We can all point to a teacher who had a great personal influence on us. It’s clear that teachers, […]
For many years the British Columbia Teachers’ Federation (BCTF) ran a successful Lesson Aids program which allowed for teachers to either come to the building to buy vetted, paper-based teacher-created resources at a low price or order them, from a catalogue, though the mail. As the federation moved to an online presence, the catalogue was […]
As I reflect on the theme for this edition of Perspectives, I recall one of my first and finest teacher mentors, Dr. Ursula Kelly (then a professor in the Faculty of Education at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, more recently at Memorial University in St. John’s). Among many other lessons, Dr. Kelly taught us the […]
Research comprises one of the key strategic and supportive activities at the Canadian Teachers’ Federation. Through our work, we support the short- and long-term needs and objectives of our Member organizations and position ourselves as the “go to” national voice on publicly funded K-12 education in Canada. The CTF has a long history of monitoring […]
Over the course of the 2017-2018 school year, about 100 videos were produced for elementary level teachers thanks to the cooperation of dozens of teachers across the country who generously agreed to participate in the project with their students. These videos add to the 168 videos already available to secondary level teachers (pelf.ca). What is PELF? […]
