MrTfromP3

I've been teaching workshops for school boards and the ETFO Ontario teachers' union since 2015. Thousands of teachers and dozens of workshops! I'd love you to join me as I host three end-of-summer workshops: This TPT resource is a recorded workshop from Monday, August 26, 2025 Coding I'll be guiding you through an overview of the grade 1-6 curriculum and mentioning the 7th-8th grade curriculum. I will walk you through the basics of using the free SCRATCH coding website. You will leave with 2-3 a

The original Classroom Economy program is great! If you're unfamiliar with it and looking for a new classroom management program that blends financial literacy, then this can serve as a great introduction. But if you've been using Classroom Economy for a few years and want to expand on the existing program, then this is a great resource! Check out this video for more info. You'll receive: - over 20 videos for teachers to show their students how to venture through the program - These videos in

This coding workshop was designed for teachers and students to learn how to code and gives teachers content they can give directly to students. It’s packed with a dozen activities for you and your students to complete.   Before March Break 2022 (Ontario, Canada’s Spring Break), I shared a 3-day workshop with 140 teachers and students who were learning and teaching online. I have personally used these lesson ideas with students in grades 3 - 8. This is the full 3-day workshop and includes a 3 pag

A fun activity from my article from Canadian Teacher Magazine Jan/Feb 2017 edition.

This is the link from the article on the Durham School Board's website. You need an TPT account to download the file. It's free and the site is a great resource for educators. I hope you find this resource helpful in navigating the Skype Edu site and as a springboard for ways to use Skype in the classroom. The handout is for two workshops taught on Feb 13 for 79 teachers on how to use Skype in the classroom. For an article written about my class and I using Skype, click here: http://bit.ly/sk

I taught 3 workshops in our school district's Summer Institute 2014 and this is the handout for the second workshop entitled, "Everything Else Technology". The morning session was on using Google Apps and Docs. Instead of a 1 page, 400 word handout though, this one is 5 pages and 3000+ words with an overview of each and an example or two to try. Included are 10 of my favourite ways to use technology in a classroom. Topics range from parent-teacher communication, ideas for the flipped classroom

This is a lesson that was promised in an article I wrote in Canadian Teacher Magazine in the Sept/Oct 14 issue. (bit.ly/1BxF1Va) The two lessons in the article were Place Value and Symmetry lessons. This one here is a kinesthetic Geometry lesson that uses Frisbee Golf and Google Earth to teach Transformational Geometry. Included are step by step instructions on how to use Google Earth to complete the activity, as well as two worksheets. I've included the Ontario Geometry Curriculum Expectatio