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Ottawa Valley Centre |
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Centre Staff Centre Head: Marie Josée Berger Research Officer: Régine Guyomard Secretary: Johanne Doré
Email: mjberger@oise.utoronto.ca |
Address Parkwood Hills PS 60 Tiverton Dr Nepean ON K2E 6L8 Canada Telephone: (613) 224-0561
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The Ottawa Valley Centre serves school systems in the Ottawa Valley and as far west as the Kingston area. Activities include mainly workshops, consultation, and joint research projects with school boards in the areas of learning assessment strategies, program reviews, and research design and data analysis. Topics of interest include Alternative learning assessment strategies in the classroom, Early reading intervention, Actualization linguistic, ESL, Integrated mathematics.
Current Projects
The Ottawa Valley Centre focused on finishing projects that had been started during the previous season and on starting new ones. The Ottawa Valley Centre participates in a career and guidance program which promotes new approaches based on the career concept in a post-industrial society and promotes the integration of career education in daily teaching activities at the primary and secondary levels, from grades 1 to 12. In order to maximize the learning experience, the program focuses on the personal, the interpersonal and the professional growth.
The Ottawa Valley Centre has started the third part of the early intervention program in reading for at-risk students in grades one to three. The first part, a study already led to recommendations to develop a conceptual framework for the program. The second part resulted in the development of an early intervention program in reading and of an intervention kit comprising evaluation tools, means of intervention and a list of educational resources. The objective of the third part of the project is to train teachers of the French-Language boards and sections. The project is a partnership between the various training networks and the institutions that serve the Franco-Ontarian community.
The Ottawa Valley Centre is also involved in the reading and writing interprovincial project, in partnership with the University of Ottawa. This project consists in a secondary analysis of the results obtained by students of Manitoba, New Brunswick and Ontario in the writing and reading knowledge test of the School Achievement Indicators program, with a view to offering solutions to counter the difficulties of learning French in a minority environment.
The Ottawa Valley Centre Institute works in cooperation with the Rose-des-Vents elementary school in Cornwall and the elementary school L'Odyssée in Ottawa to reorganize their curriculum and teaching approaches. The Ottawa Valley Centre also offers additional qualification courses, graduate programs and training sessions for teachers.
The participation of the Ottawa Valley Centre in many innovative projects and studies beyond and above it numerous university and professional activities allows us to work directly with the teachers and to be involved in the different phases of the changes initiated in education, learning, and evaluation. ![]()
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