The Alberta Teachers’ Association

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.

1. 100 idées pour enseigner les ­habiletés sociales

Pour que leur intégration sociale et ­scolaire soit réussie, les enfants doivent prioritairement apprendre les codes de communication et de ­socialisation. Ce livre propose 100 idées pour permettre aux pédagogues et aux parents de ­comprendre et d’enseigner les habiletés sociales aux enfants, quel que soit leur âge.

2. Playing with Language: ­Improving Elementary Reading through ­Metalinguistic Awareness

Metalinguistic awareness is a key factor in developing reading skills. Author Marcy Zipke offers teachers practical ideas for helping their students expand this cognitive skill through engaging games, songs, riddles and rhymes.

3. Universal Design Daily: 365 Ways to Teach, Support, & ­Challenge All Learners Using UDL

Although Universal Design for Learning guidelines are ­complicated, author Paula Kluth demonstrates that implementing them can be a straightforward and easy process in the second edition of this easy-to-use guide.

4. Agile Practice Guide

This practice guide provides tools, situational guidelines and an understanding of the various agile approaches available to enable better results. Filled with examples, tips and case studies, this practice guide is essential for anyone who wants to learn more about agile approaches. 

5. L’apprentissage de la lecture et de l'écriture : décomposer les objets d’enseignement en microtâches pour les rendre accessibles à tous les élèves, 5 à 12 ans

Cet ouvrage permet d’outiller les ­enseignants, les orthopédagogues et le personnel d’intervention pédagogique afin de mieux comprendre chacun de leurs élèves et de définir leurs différents besoins en matière ­d’apprentissage de la lecture et de l’écriture.

6. Coding and the Arts: Connecting CS to Drawing, Music, Animation and More

Art and coding are generally not taught together in the classroom, but author Josh Caldwell questions that division as he sees that coding is ­primarily creative and that many artists include computing in their artwork. He includes analysis of artistic programming environments for ­teachers and creative lesson plans.

7. Breaking Hate: Confronting the New ­Culture of Extremism

This fascinating and useful work is written by a former white supremist who now helps others remove the mental programming of extremist movements. Teachers will find insights to help manage classroom discussions that reveal such programming in their students.

8. Sommes-nous tous racistes? Psychologie des racismes ordinaires

À partir des données de la psychologie sociale, cet ouvrage développe la thèse d’un présupposé raciste fondamental dans toutes les sociétés, qui demande à être combattu par un acte de volonté, afin d’éviter la ­déshumanisation qui suit l’excès de communautarisme.

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Barbara Weir Shepherd
Over the Boards by Hayley Wickenheiser. Lots of practical suggestions from a very ­successful person.

James Williams
A must read for every teacher on Treaty 7 territory who strives towards reconciliation is The True Spirit and Original Intent of Treaty 7. An excellent resource for Grade 7 social studies.

Lynnsey Paige
What Happened to You? by Oprah Winfrey and Dr. Bruce Perry. It’s so good that a few colleagues and I started a book club for it.

Chelsea DePape
The Hail Mary Project by Andy Weir. The story is about a junior high science teacher who is on a mission to save Earth. Even after he is turned away from academia, the world’s leading experts rely on his expertise and knowledge. Pretty incredible story!

Alexis Villetard
The Boat People by Sharon Bala. This would be a perfect read for Social 30. It’s all about the Tamil refugees who arrived on Canadian shores in 2010 and their experience with the Canadian government. A secondary story about Japanese internment is also woven through. Very good book.

Sara Honey
Teaching Well by Lisa Bush. Excellent read and always relevant. Not the typical teaching book. Love her sense of humour and down-to-earth suggestions from someone on the front lines of teaching.