The Alberta Teachers’ Association

FROM THE BOOKSHELVES

These resources are now available through the ATA library.

The ATA library has great resources for teachers in print and online. Library staff are happy to mail out whatever you need to wherever you are, and we prepay the return postage for you. Drop us a line at library@ata.ab.ca and let us know how we can help you with your teaching this year.

Forest School and Autism: A Practical Guide

By adapting standard forest school activities for students with autism, teachers can help these students improve critical skills such as self-esteem and social skills, as well as sensory function.

Puppetry in Theatre and Arts Education

In this book, you will find ideas for getting students to make all kinds of puppets as well as strategies for ­incorporating puppets in both literature and science lesson plans.

Bien ensemble pour mieux apprendre

Après une introduction sur ce que signifie « enseigner dans la bienveillance », l’ouvrage aborde l’aménagement de l’espace et du temps, les affichages, la posture de l’enseignant, et suggère de bannir l’échec pour favoriser la réussite. Au fil des activités, il apporte des précisions théoriques et pratiques sur le développement psychoaffectif de l’enfant et la communication non violente (CNV).

Soyez un retraité heureux

Cet ouvrage vous livrera toutes les clés pour devenir un retraité heureux : apprendre à quitter le monde du travail; anticiper et se projeter dans sa nouvelle vie; accepter et vivre sereinement les changements... Par des explications simples, des témoignages et des exercices, l’auteur vous livre un ouvrage « clé en main » pour vous permettre d’écrire le scénario de votre nouvelle vie.

Les sociétés matriarcales : Recherches sur les cultures autochtones à travers le monde

Dans cet ouvrage pionnier, fondateur des ­recherches matriarcales modernes, l’auteure définit pour la première fois clairement et ­scientifiquement le concept de matriarcat, jusque-là décrié et opaque, qui lui permet de revisiter l’histoire culturelle de l’humanité.

The Hidden: A Compendium of Arctic Giants, Dwarves, Gnomes, Trolls, Faeries and Other Strange Beings from Inuit Oral History

Teachers wanting to incorporate Indigenous ­perspectives into their ELA classes will love this ­collection of Inuit folklore. Wonderfully written and beautifully illustrated.

The 5 Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace: Empowering Organizations by Encouraging People

In this update to their popular 2011 edition, Gary Chapman and Paul White provide useful insights for appreciating staff as well as colleagues in the workplace.

How to Be an Antiracist

As a high school student, Ibram Kendi absorbed and internalized Western culture’s racism without thinking he was racist. As a professor, he revisits his earlier thinking and shows that by consciously making choices to support antiracist policies, one can realign oneself and remake our culture.

Your colleagues recommend

What do you read to help you decompress and why would you recommend it to a colleague?

Teachers suggested these reads via Facebook.

Michelle Holland
Usually I read thrillers, but I just read Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman as well as Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster (this one was gifted by a parent!). They were both fantastic!

Nicole Richard
I honestly love to read young adult novels to decompress! They are engaging, I can recommend them to my ­students afterwards, and they help my brain to relax!

Erin Quinn
I read young adult fiction. It helps me recommend books to my students, but I also just really love it! There’s more depth than you might think.

Silpi Das-Collins
Young adult novels for how quick, engaging, honest and touching they often are. Who doesn’t love a good coming-of-age story? Or Jane Austen—she really transports you to a different world, and her characters and dialogue are just so funny.

Carmen Fandino
Brain Pickings by Maria Popova. It is eclectic, current, thought-provoking and short. You always have interesting links to dig deeper if you wish. Sometimes she integrates audios so I can “plug in” during my walks.

Scott Carey
Not so much for decompression, but The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg ­McKeown has been huge in helping me not get ­“compressed” in the first place. It lives on my desk/in my backpack to remind myself.