Ministry of Education
Ministère de l’Éducation
Barrie Regional Office
Bureau régional de Barrie
20 Bell Farm Rd., Unit #9
20, rue Bell Farm Bureau no9
Barrie ON L4M 6E4
Barrie ON L4M 6E4
Telephone: (705) 725-7627
Téléphone : (705) 725-7627
INWATS: 1-800-471-0713
SANS FRAIS : 1-800-471-0713
Fax: (705) 725-7635 or 1-800-471-2584
TÉLÉCOPIEUR : (705) 725-7635 ou 1-800-471-2584
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MEMORANDUM TO:
Directors of Education
Secretary-Treasurers and Supervisory Officers of School Authorities
Deans of Education
FROM:
Joan Fullerton
DATE:
October 21, 2008
SUBJECT:
Training Session for the Revised The Arts, Grades 1-8
Curriculum Policy Document
This memorandum is to provide you with information about the regional training sessions for the
revised The Arts, Grades 1-8 curriculum policy document to be implemented beginning
September 1, 2009.
The training session for the Barrie Region is as follows:
December 15 and 16, 2008
9:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. (8:30 a.m. registration)
Holiday Inn
20 Fairview Road
Barrie ON L4N 4P3
(705) 722-0555
The two day session will be delivered by the ministry curriculum project lead. Participants will
be provided with training materials for their own training sessions.
The training session will focus on:
 an overview of the changes in the revised curriculum policy document;
 a review of the changes in the Achievement Chart;
 considerations for program planning in the revised front matter; and
 assessment and evaluation.
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Each district school board is invited to send up to eight (8) participants. The team of eight is to
include:
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one board representative (e.g., arts consultant);
one administrator;
one board leader for guidance and career education;
one board leader for special education; and
four elementary classroom teachers who have demonstrated leadership in the Arts
program (one from each of the disciplines – dance, drama, music, and visual arts).
Designated board contact people are asked, whenever possible, to make arrangements for their
implementation team to participate in the training session. In order to be able to make more
effective use of the face to face time in the training session, it is recommended that those
members of the school board team who did not participate in the Adobe Connect pretraining
sessions for The Arts 1-8 to view the online recording of this session. Curriculum Services
Canada (CSC) has provided your school board’s designated contact person with the website
address of the recording of the Adobe Connect pretraining session. If your school board team did
not participate in any of the pretraining sessions, you may obtain the link for the website from
CSC by contacting Aarthi Vig at AVig@curriculum.org or by phone at 416-591-1576 extension
231.
Each school authority that has an elementary program and each faculty of education are invited
to send one representative to the training session.
Note: Where possible, it would be helpful if at least two members of the school board team, as
well as the school authority and faculty of education representatives, could bring a laptop
computer to the training session.
EDU will provide copies of the revised curriculum policy document for the training session. In
addition, the ministry will reimburse participants for the cost of:
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Travel (at the rate of $.40 per kilometre).
Hotel accommodation if necessary (for participants travelling 200 kilometres or more
return trip).
For those requiring accommodation, one supper meal for the night of accommodation
($20.00 per meal). Breakfast and lunch will be provided during the training session for
all participants.
Supply teacher coverage, where required to cover classroom teachers, is at the board’s
per diem rate.
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Attached to this memorandum is a registration form (Appendix A), as well as an expense form
template (Appendix B), that is to be completed separately by the board for the training session.
On the registration form, please identify your board’s contact person for the training session and
enter the names of your representatives who will attend the training. The registration form is to
be returned by email to Sandra Morson, Education Officer at Sandra.Morson@ontario.ca, no
later than Friday, December 5, 2008.
After the training session has been completed, please have your board’s contact person complete
the expense claim for the training session. Please attach the claim form to an official board
numbered invoice for the individual training session. The invoice should be signed by an official
of the board.
Please forward a hard copy of the completed invoices and expense claims for the training session
to the attention of Sandra Morson, Education Officer, Barrie Regional Office, no later than
Friday, January 16, 2009. If you require further information or clarification, please contact
Sandra Morson, at 705-725-7630 or 1-800-471-2171 or Sandra.Morson@ontario.ca.
Your continued co-operation and support is appreciated as we move together in implementing
the revised Ontario Curriculum.
Regional Manager
Enclosures
Appendix A: Registration Form
Revised Curriculum Implementation Support – The Arts, Grades 1-8
Barrie Regional Office
Date: Monday, December 15 and Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Time: 8:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Location: Holiday Inn, 20 Fairview Road, Barrie ON L4N 4P3 705-722-0555
School Board: _______________________________________________________________
Board Contact Person: ___________________________ Phone #:____________________
Please list the names of participants on the registration chart below and return it by email to
Sandra Morson at Sandra.Morson@ontario.ca by Friday, December 5, 2008.
Name of Participant
Staff Position
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
The school board team of eight is to include one board representative (e.g., arts consultant), one
administrator, one board leader for guidance and career education, one board leader for special
education, and four elementary classroom teachers who have demonstrated leadership in the Arts
program (one from each of the disciplines – dance, drama, music, and visual arts).
Appendix B: Expense Form Template
REVISED ONTARIO CURRICULUM REGIONAL TRAINING SESSION
Ministry of Education - Barrie Regional Office
Summary Expense Claim Form
Name of Board: ______________________________________________________
Subject Discipline:
Date of Training Session:
Revised The Arts, Grades 1-8
Location of Training:
Board Contact Person:
Contact Telephone:
Contact e-mail address:
Number of Participants attended:
Board Per diem supply coverage rate:
Names of Participants whose expenses are eligible
for Ministry reimbursement
Travel
(total kms)
Travel
claim
(@$.40
per km)
Supply
Teacher
Coverage
Cost
(only for
teaching
staff)
Accommodation
and meal costs
(only for persons
over 100 km one
way)
Sub-Totals:
Total:
Please forward this Summary Expense Form attached to an original board invoice with copies of
individual claim forms and receipts to the Barrie Regional Office by January 16, 2009.
If you have any questions regarding reimbursements, please contact Sandra Morson, Education
Officer, Barrie Regional Office at 705-725-7630 or 1-800-471-2171.