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Haskings-Winner, Jan

Past President, Ontario History and Social Science Teachers' Association

Haskings-Winner, Jan

Jan Haskings-Winner is a teacher in the Toronto District School Board. She has taught for over 30 years in Malaysia, northern Ontario, central Ontario and Toronto in a variety of schools and communities. She is Past-President of the Ontario History and Social Sciences Teachers' Association (OHASSTA) and has been on its executive for eight years. She was seconded to teach history to teacher education students in the Pre-Service Teacher Education program at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto (OISE/UT) from 2005-2008 and 2009-2010. Jan also teaches at Queen's and Lakehead universities in their Additional Qualifications continuing education programs for teachers in History and Social Sciences.

In addition to her publications listed below, Jan also contributed to Exemplars in Historical Thinking: 20th Century Canada (2008) as well as to curriculum writing projects for the Ministry of Education (Ontario) and the Toronto District School Board, including the "Genocide and Crimes against Humanity" course.
 

Publications Since 2007

"Teaching History Teachers in the Classroom." In Becoming a History Teacher: Sustaining Practices in Historical Thinking and Knowing, edited by Ruth Sandwell and Amy von Heyking, 283-90. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014.

With Elizabeth Freeman Shaw and Diane Vautour. Canadian Sources Investigated (revised). Toronto: Nelson, 2014.

With Rachel Collishaw, Sandra Kritzer, and Patricia Warecki. Social Science: An Introduction.  Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 2011.

With Robert Mewhinney. Making Economic Choices. Toronto: Emond Montgomery, 2010.

With Elizabeth Freeman-Shaw. Canadian Sources: Investigated 1914 to the Present. Toronto: Emond Montgomery, 2008.

With Robert Mewhinney. Passport to Civics. Toronto: Pippen Publishing, 2008.

With Robert Mewhinney, Bernie Rubinstein, Bob Aitken, Pina Sacco, Allan Hux and Marc Keirstead. Their Stories, Our History: Development of a Nation. Toronto: Thomson Duval, 2007.