Ethics and Religious Culture

LEARN is working collaboratively with the MELS, ERC board consultants and lead teachers to align and adapt existing materials and resources to support the implementation of the ERC program in the anglophone community.

ELEMENTARY ERC SECTION

Find your way! View these helpful video tours provided by the DEEN ERC subcommittee!

How to access ERC resources on Learn
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How to join the ERC PLC
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SHARE ZONES:

ERC PLC - Professional Learning Community
Think of it as a place where we can all share resources and experiences delivering the new Ethics and Religious Culture program. Check out the Forums, where LES are being shared and ideas are brewing.
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ERC NEWS and blog!
New for 2011, LEARN's ERC News and blogging site. Get up to date, comment and make suggestions, follow us on Twitter, subscribe to the feed.
Check it out here.

HIGHLIGHTS

Powerpoints on religious objects

NEW on LEARN: Powerpoints on religious objects, representations, and their corresponding stories and contexts, courtesy of EMSB.
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ERC and Literacy
Lester B. Pearson School Board, this document has been developed as a teacher resource to support the implementation of the Ethics and Religious Culture Curriculum. "One of our primary goals was to provide teachers with a planning resource that is directly linked to a number of picture books. For each of the picture books you will find the bibliographic reference, as well as, the curriculum competencies and key features."
Read more and access the PDF of the latest version here...

sCool Videos tagged for ERC!

Just posted on the s'Cool site section at LEARN, these short "features" have been organized in one location for use with the Ethics and Religious Education program.
An ideal way to motivate students, these features were produced for the s'Cool television programme in 2008-2009, but they were researched and written by students themselves, and they reflect the students’ preoccupations and unique voices. They can be used in class as conversation starters or hooks, or as media productions to critique and learn from. Click here to view the videos!

Classroom Conversations !

Teachers express their opinions, discuss their own experiences, share teaching strategies, and learn about the new ERC program and its objectives as they go.
Read about the event. View the video!

RESOURCE COLLECTIONS

GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS for Secondary Cycles 1 & 2
RESOURCES arranged by theme
(includes web links, print material, and Discovery Education online videos)
- Secondary Cycle 1
- Secondary Cycle 2
  
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ERC LEARNING AND EVALUATION SITUATIONS

The Ethics and Religious Culture program is being offered in elementary and secondary level classrooms as of September 2008. To support teachers in its application, several Learning and Evaluation Situations were written by Anglophone resource people, with the support and expertise of the Ministère de l’Éducation, du Loisir et du Sport (MELS). Similarly, some French MELS LES have also been translated and are available here.

Learning and Evaluation Situations (click here)

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ERC PROGRAM INFORMATION

The program section includes links to Ethics and Religious Culture programs, the main MELS ERC site, and to other relevant documents. No login is required to view this page.

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You will see these icons on many of the resources in this site. They represent the three subject-specific competencies.