OVERVIEW of PRIMARY PROFESSIONAL PURSUITS:


    DATES: PRIMARILY INVOLVED IN:
    1989 to present full-time teaching (primarily History, Art, Geography), curriculum writing, and art
    1984 to 1989 computer software development, curriculum writing, and part-time teaching
    1978 to 1984 urban studies, architecture (including studies & projects), and design work
    1973 to 1978 Fine Art studies and professional practice in visual arts




    CONTRACTUAL CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS:

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    DATES: PROJECT to produce: MATERIALS used by: CONTRACTED with:
    1991
    to
    1993
    A book and CD ROM of environmental lesson plans entitled " Towards an Ecozoic Curriculum". I created over 200 activitiess which infuse ecological themes into Art and Geography courses. These were combined with hundreds of other plans for all other subjects created by the rest of our team of 12 teacher curriculum-writers. The book and CD ROM were distributed to all Ontario secondary schools after extensive in-school testing. funded by combined efforts of:
    1985
    to
    1990
    Computer-Based Learning Materials, the largest of which was PHRASE ANIMEE. This software is a tool of my own design which allows students to imagine and create their own sentences in a chosen language (for example, French) and then see these acted out (animated) by characters on the screen. Software package distributed by Ministry of Education to every school in Ontario $120,000 fee for
    service contract
    with the Ontario
    Ministry of Education
    Curriculum Development
    Branch
    1982
    to
    1988
    Several exercise books of a series for in-school use. I was responsible for the text and the maps for INTRODUCING CANADA and INTRODUCING the NORTHEASTERN UNITED STATES Exercise book used
    by secondary school
    students throughout
    the United States
    Milliken
    Publishing
    Company
    St. Louis


    OTHER EMPLOYMENT

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    July
    1984
    to
    May
    1985
    Editorial Assistant for Volume One of the Historical Atlas of Canada project. Responsibilities included working closely with the editorial committee and contributers, as well as helping co-ordinate cartographic work. The HAC has since won numberous awards and international acclaim as a scholarly work of great educational value.
    Historical Atlas
    of Canada Project

    Social Sciences &
    Humanities Research
    Council and the
    University of Toronto
    1978
    to
    1986
    As a research assistant to a number of professors within the University of Toronto, I worked on a number of projects. Some of these lead to published articles (see PUBLICATIONS section)
  • research assistant to Prof. Ian Burton
    (Institute for Environmental Studies)
  • research assistant to Prof Carlo Testa
    (School of Architecture) on several
    N.S.E.R.C. & Min. of Energy projects.
  • research assistant to Reiner Jaakson,
    Department of Geography



OTHER RESUMES
last updated April, 2004
This resume can be seen at the following web site URL:
http://www.oocities.org/david_m_fletcher/Teacher_CV.html