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Welcome to Connection, Alberta Education's online newsletter for teachers.
In this edition ...
- Curriculum and Resources: Subject-area curriculum and resource updates and professional development opportunities.
- Early Learning: Inclusion in the Early Years Promising Practices Symposium, Raising Children website.
- Provincial Testing: Achievement tests, calculators for diploma examinations, diploma examinations, examination administration, French assessment, professional development opportunities.
- Special Education: Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder learning series 2010–2011, post-secondary planning resources for students with disabilities.
- First Nations, Métis and Inuit (FNMI) Updates: FNMI Services Branch contacts, Knowing Our Spirits Conference, professional development opportunities.
- Technology Integration: LearnAlberta.ca update; Microsoft Office Home Use Program, E-learning and Learning Essentials for Educators.
- Career Initiatives: Alberta Consumer Champion Awards youth poster competition 2010, post-secondary planning resources for students with disabilities, ApplyAlberta is making the grade, Time to Choose … A Post-secondary Education Program 2010–2011 resource.
- International Education: International Education Week 2010.
- Other News: Alberta's Wraparound Approach—Collaborating for Kids video; Guide to Support Implementation of Education Policies, Curricula, Priorities, Programs and Initiatives; professional development opportunities—high school completion; success in school for children and youth in care—Provincial Protocol Framework (PPF).
Next edition: January 2011
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