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English 10 and 11 First Peoples Draft IRP

FNESC has invited English teachers to respond to the new draft curriculum for English 10 and 11 First Peoples which is now available on the Ministry of Education website for feedback. Response Forms in WORD and PDF formats are also available. These documents can be found at: http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/irp/drafts/

The deadline for written response is March 26, 2010.

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Tell us what you are teaching

What are you teaching?

Remember the BCTELA Novel Title Collection Project?  When we shared the titles of the texts we were teaching and expanded our sense of what we might teach?  Well, it has been reborn... as a wiki!

Come check it out.  It's new, which means everyone's help is valuable as we work to add and share the texts and ideas that we teach: http://bctela.pbworks.com/

Lillooet Regional Conference Registration

Registration for the Lillooet Regional Conference is now open. 

Please click HERE to register.

Please visit www.bctela.ca/conference/spring2010 for more detail about the conference.

More Resources

Looking for more? Visit our Resources section for journal articles, messages from our President, student writing, and curriculum packs — or check out the extensive resources in our Conference archives and Supports area.

important dates

March 26th

Deadline for responses to English 10 and 11 First Peoples drafts.  Go here to see the proposed curriculum.

 

May 1st, 2010

Deadline for submision to the Student Writing Contest.  Teachers must be a member of BCTELA to enter their students.

 

Ongoing

Take a moment and think about the number and variety of things we write every day. Choose an example of that writing and submit it to the BCTELA gallery for the NCTE National Day on Writing.

 

 

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