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Support, Services, and Resources for Teacher Candidates

Managing your practicum

One of the most challenging parts of your program is preparing for your practicum.  

Here's how we can help:

Support and services

Workshops

The OISE Library offers a variety of free workshops in the fall and winter terms including:

  • Finding classroom resources for your practicum: Math manipulatives, science kits, children’s literature and more
  • Research Rescue
  • RefWorks 2.0

Additional information about these workshops is available at http://oise.library.utoronto.ca/research/classes-available#section-0

Library tours

Like to learn more about how the library can support your studies? Attend a library drop-in tour to find out!

Unable to attend one of our tours?  Download the OISE Library Podcast Tour.

Online tutorials

Need a review of library catalogue or database searching?  Find online tutorials and help sheets at:
http://oise.library.utoronto.ca/research/tutorials

Research guides

The Education Resources for Initial Teacher Education Research Guide provides links to recommended print and e-resources for K-12 education.  There are also a number of other research guides you may find helpful including:

A full list is available at Research Guides by Topic. 

Individual research consultations

Individual research consultations are available for both students and faculty. To book a research consultation, please complete the online form.

Research and reference support is also available:

RefWorks and Zotero support

RefWorks and Zotero are free reference management tools used to manage and share citations, and generate in-text citations and bibliographies.
For support using citation management software, please contact:

Distance education services

For distance education services available to students, please see http://oise.library.utoronto.ca/services/distance-education.
Please contact Pat Serafini (pat.serafini@utoronto.ca) for additional information.

Accessibility services

Please see http://oise.library.utoronto.ca/services/accessibility-services for information about accessibility services. For additional information, contact Pat Serafini (pat.serafini@utoronto.ca).

 

Study and meeting spaces

Please see http://oise.library.utoronto.ca/about-us/StudyRooms to learn more about the variety of individual and group study / meeting spaces available in the OISE Library.

 

Library resources

Technology loans

6 Dell laptops and 3 iPad2s are available on 4 hour loan at the Service Desk on the Ground Floor of the Library.  Please see the Laptop & iPad2 Loans page for further information.  

Special collections

The OISE Library has a number of specialized collections to support your studies and teaching.

The Curriculum Resources Collection provides a comprehensive source of curriculum and instructional materials in the field of education including textbooks, teacher’s guides, curriculum guidelines, activity kits, manipulatives, games, and DVDs in a variety of subject areas.

There is also an excellent collection of children’s literature located on the 3rd floor of the Library.
For second language instruction materials, please see the Modern Language Collection on the 2nd floor of the Library.

For assistance with the Library's Special Collections, contact:

Request new resources

Please let us know if there are books, e-books, DVDs, activity kits, or other library materials which we should purchase to enhance our collection. To suggest a title, please complete our Suggest a Title form.

Interlibrary loan and intercampus delivery

Please see http://uoft.me/oiseresourcesharing for information about these services.
Please contact Teresa Pietropaolo-De Marco at vdxadmin.oise@utoronto.ca for questions about interlibrary loan or intercampus delivery requests.

 

Keep in touch with us!

Interested in finding out about new resources, workshops, and other library news? Subscribe to the Library News Blog or follow us on Twitter.

Send your name and email address to Jenaya Webb (jenaya.webb@utoronto.ca) to be added to our mailing list.

 

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