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April 11 – Inquiring about Elections: Literacy-Numeracy and Global Competencies
Critical thinking, innovation, collaboration, communication and citizenship are at the heart of Elections Canada’s new activities for secondary students. In this webinar, we will explore two lessons to help your students become actively engaged citizens. In Elections by the Numbers, students work collaboratively to develop a creative message about voter turnout. Whether you teach grade …
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OTF Connects May 24 : Creating, Making, Exploring: Using Digital Breakout Rooms to Encourage Global Competencies
This webinar will allow teachers the chance to see and create digital breakout rooms (think of the escape rooms that you’ve visited but online) that can be combined with a multitude of curriculum. These interactive and collaborative breakout rooms will empower students to be creators, deep thinkers, and to challenge their creative juices, while accessing …
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OTF Connects April 24, 2018 : Math Matters: Engaging Students in Meaningful Inquiries
In this webinar, teachers will learn some practical strategies for bringing math concepts to life through engaging questions and tasks. How can you tweak existing tasks to ‘bump up’ thinking and build self-regulation in thinking and learning? This webinar will help lead the way to small shifts that can make a big difference in student …
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OTF Connects – April 17, 2018 : Nurturing Creativity – Going Deeper
The session will build on the previous webinar that introduced the core principals of teaching for creativity by focusing on practical ideas for a) framing tasks that invite creativity; b) using a sustained inquiry approach that allows students to “live with the creative challenge” over time; c) strategies to encourage fluency, flexibility and verification in …
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OTF Connects: March 21 – Nurturing World-Shapers Through Critical Inquiry
This webinar explores how to meaningfully integrate the active citizenship framework that is embedded in the new social studies/Canada World Studies curriculum as a means to nurture thoughtful, ethical and engaged citizens who use the critical inquiry process to make meaningful change in the world. Presenter: Maria Vamvalis Audience: Grades 5-12 Resources: Maria’s email: Maria on Twitter: …