Catholic Leadership and Service: A Call to Action II (Grades 6-8) Audience: Elementary: Grade 6 – 8 Descriptor: This resource puts Catholic leadership and service-learning at the forefront of our teaching in Catholic schools. The Religious Education policy document places importance on Living a Moral Life and Living in Solidarity. These strands focus on conscience formation and imparting to children …
A Collection of K-8 Retreats for Catholic Elementary Schools: A Resource Guide for Facilitators
A Collection of K-8 Retreats for Catholic Elementary Schools: A Resource Guide for Facilitators Audience: Elementary Grades 1-8 Descriptor: This resource is a compilation of retreats tailored specifically to the elementary-aged student. Each retreat is aligned with the Ontario Catholic Elementary Curriculum Policy Document for Religious Education Grades 1-8. In addition, The Ontario Catholic School Graduate Expectations, Catholic Social …
Growing In Faith, Growing In Christ
Growing In Faith, Growing In Christ Audience: Elementary Grades 7 and 8 Descriptor: Growing in Faith, Growing in Christ: Combined Grades 7 and 8 Teaching Strategies is a teacher resource intended to assist those teachers with a combined class of grades 7 and 8 students. The resource offers strategies that allow teachers to teach a combination of the two programs. …
Listening With The Heart: Building Safe and Inclusive Classrooms Through Mindfulness and Meditation
Listening With The Heart: Building Safe and Inclusive Classrooms Through Mindfulness and Meditation Audience: Grades 7-12 Descriptor: This resource helps students become: more discerning believers through meditation reflections, more effective communicators through developing active listening skills and understanding how to respond as opposed to react, and how to be more responsible citizens and caring family members through the activities that …
Catholic Leadership and Service: A Call To Action
Catholic Leadership and Service: A Call to Action Audience: Elementary: Grade 6 – 8 Descriptor: This resource focuses on the core teachings from the strands of Living A Moral Life and Living in Solidarity from the Religious Education Curriculum, to help students build their skills and take action on the issues they care about, from poverty, to bullying and the …
Growing Through the Arts
Growing Through the Arts Audience: Elementary: Primary/Junior/Intermediate Descriptor: Growing Through The Arts: An Integrated Religion and Arts Approach, is an online platform where Primary, Junior and Intermediate educators can engage virtually with their students through numerous lessons and activities. This resource has been designed to support the learning expectations covered in the Growing in Faith, Growing in Christ Religion Program …
Faith and Science in Ontario Catholic Schools
Faith and Science in Ontario Catholic Schools Audience: Elementary: Grades 5 – 8 Descriptor: This resource explores how our Church approaches how scientific truth informs our faith. In this series of lessons, students in grades 5-8 are introduced to the idea that science and faith are not opposed to each other, but rather are mutually complementary. Analyzing the Ontario Science …
Catholic Education Resource Bank (CERB)
The CERB is a resource that collects and vets resources for Catholic teachers to use in the Catholic School context. The resources available will be updated regularly. They are intended to be easily accessible and to be used by teachers on a daily basis or on an as-needed basis to support their classroom work. It is a one stop place for Catholic activities that can be tied to Catholic curriculum.
21st Century Shepherds: Stewards of Student Data
21st Century Shepherds was created to address the very pressing need of providing educators with both the knowledge of their moral, legal and ethical obligations around student data and providing a toolkit for evaluating the relative safety of the tool for student use.
Sacramental Preparation for Students with Special Needs
This resource will assist educators in providing appropriate preparation for the sacraments to students with special needs, foster an attitude of inclusion, raise the awareness of educators in regards to available resources, and provide support to educators and parish priests for sacramental preparation at the school level for students with special needs.
Faith and Science in Our Catholic Schools
This resource explains some of the most common “hot spots” where people find conflict between science and Catholicism.
Confirmation Through Conversation
An online platform where Gr. 7 and 8 teachers, and students can engage virtually with other groups province-wide to participate in five distinct Catholic modules focused around the sacrament of Confirmation.
Religious Education: Growing Successfully in Assessment, Evaluation and Reporting
This resource provides teachers with practical implementation strategies to connect the assessment principles of Growing Success with the Elementary Religious Education Curriculum (2012).
Changing Pedagogy Using Student Voice: Fostering Responsible Catholic Citizenship
This document uses student voice and inquiry in the classroom to enhance pedagogy.
Catholic Curriculum Maps – Foundational Support for Catholic Teachers 2006
The Catholic Curriculum Maps Grade K-8 is a rich resource which helps teachers plan and implement a distinctive Catholic curriculum.
Integrating Science and Technology and Catholic Curriculum Maps
The Integrating Science and Technology and Catholic Curriculum Maps, Understanding Life Systems resource provides practical examples for teachers in using the Catholic Curriculum Corporation’s Catholic Curriculum Maps, to support the implementation of the Ontario Curriculum, Grades 1-8: Science and Technology strand, Understanding Life Systems from a uniquely Catholic perspective.
Assessment, Evaluation and Reporting in Elementary Religious Education – A Research Report
The Assessment, Evaluation and Reporting in Elementary Religious Education – A Research Report provides a reference for curriculum consultants, coordinators and/or future writers to use when addressing assessment, evaluation and reporting of the current Religious Education programs in Catholic schools in Ontario.
The Ethical and Responsible Use of Information and Communication Technology – A Guideline for all Stakeholders in Catholic Education
The Ethical and Responsible Use of Information and Communication Technology – A Guideline for all Stakeholders in Catholic Education will provide intermediate and secondary teachers with lessons to deal with this very current and critical topic.
Engaging the Soul through the ARTS
Engaging the Soul through the ARTS will provide elementary teachers with concrete lessons on how to bring the Ontario Catholic Graduate Expectations to life in the Arts.
Secondary Resources
The CCC has produced a number of electronic resources related to secondary courses.
Robust Thinking Tasks and the Ontario Catholic Graduate Expectations
The Robust Thinking Tasks and the Ontario Catholic Graduate Expectations provide elementary teachers with current information around the Ministry of Education`s challenge to create rich Robust Thinking Tasks for students.
Listen and Hear My Voice – ICT Media Literacy Resource
Listen and Hear My Voice approaches Media Literacy by identifying the critical learning and guiding questions which find their underpinnings in the Ontario Catholic School Graduate Expectations.
Curriculum Links Between The Ontario Curriculum, Grades 1-8: Health and Physical Education, Interim Edition, 2010 (Revised) and the Fully Alive Program and Other Catholic Education Resources
Educators will find that this document provides an outstanding alignment of expectations, as well as a clear articulation of Catholic educational resources.
Writing Catholic Curriculum Course 2006
This resource is intended to assist writers who will be working on writing projects/units.
Sacramental Preparation for Students with Special Needs – A Guide for Catholic Educators
Sacramental Preparation for Students with Special Needs – A Guide for Catholic Educators Audience: Grade K-12 Descriptor: This resource will assist educators in providing appropriate preparation for the sacraments to students with special needs, foster an attitude of inclusion, raise the awareness of educators in regards to available resources, and provide support to educators and parish priests for sacramental preparation …
Information and Communication Technology Literacy Activities 2005
To assist teachers in using ICT within their Language program to improve student literacy. The use of computer-based instructional strategies supports and enriches student learning in the areas of reading, writing and oral and visual communication, as well as the development of ICT competencies.
Gifts of Love – A Collection of Prayer Services 2003
This resource assists educators in fostering a spiritual experience within the Catholic school community.
NEW – Elementary Footprints
Footprints: The Ontario Catholic Graduate Expectations in the 21st Century is an online resource of 7, 4-hour modules for upper Elementary students and 7, 4-hour modules for Secondary students.
We Have Neither Silver Nor Gold
“We Have Neither Silver Nor Gold”: Sample Lessons and Units For Implementing the Religious Education Curriculum Policy Document 2012.
Family Life Policy Documents Grades 1-8
Through the leadership of the Institute for Catholic Education, Ontario now has its first-ever Ontario Catholic Elementary Curriculum Policy Document Grades 1-8, Family Life.
Religious Education Grades 1-8 Policy Documents
At the request of the Institute for Catholic Education, the Catholic Curriculum Corporation Central and Western Region (CCC), Faith in Education Council members have been involved in the process of reviewing the draft policy, offering direction in revisions and implementation strategies.
Leprosy in the World Today: Answering the Call to Care
Leprosy in the World Today: Answering the Call to Care is resource developed by the CCC in partnership with The Leprosy Mission Canada organization.