ELEMENTARY TEACHERS’ FEDERATION OF ONTARIO

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This year ETFO embraced opportunities provided 
by a changing technological environment to pro-
vide innovative and efficient ways of engaging 
members and local leaders in their learning.

Think, Respect and Thrive Online, an 

ETFO Digital Citizenship Resource

In an effort to assist ETFO members in support-
ing students to become 21st century learners, 
ETFO worked with nine members to develop a 
unique, ground-breaking digital citizenship cur-
riculum. Think, Respect and Thrive Online contains 
more than 45 lessons which are stranded from 
Kindergarten to grade 8. The lessons focus on 
five areas: internet safety; positive online rela-
tionships; information literacy; personal identity 
and digital footprint; and health and balance with 
technology. The book is sold with a flash drive 
containing all of the lesson materials for student 
use in both English and French.

Connected Communities

The Connected Communities project is a series 
of online sessions with teacher experts designed 
to support teaching and learning in mathematics 
and technology-enabled learning. Funded by the 
Ontario Ministry of Education, a team of design-
ers created “how to” webcasts on developing and 
delivering a webinar, developing course content 
for an online community of learners and further-
ing online communities of practice. 

Nine webinars were run by members during 
November with over 800 members in attendance. 

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 CENTURY PROFESSIONALISM 

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Photo: Vitusha Oberoi