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Providing Subject-Focused Leadership on Current Issues
The Ontario Family Studies Home Economics Educators’ Association (OFSHEEA) recognizes that the world is changing at a faster rate than curriculum documents can be updated. In order to support the educators in our subject area, we have been developing advisory documents to support curricula related to topics such as diet culture, First Nations, Métis, and …
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Truth and Reconciliation in the Classroom
During this webinar, we will focus on how to use our newest comprehensive resource: Truth and Reconciliation in the Classroom. This resource includes numerous high-quality videos on a multitude of topics such as geography, treaties, history, leadership, community life and more. Connections to the new curriculum as well as ready-made classroom activities in both English …
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Nurturing and Assessing Quality Geographic Thinking (Intermediate)
How do we assess geographic thinking? This webinar supports intermediate geography teachers in aligning curriculum expectations with the core competencies of quality geographic thinking so that we can more effectively assess students in our efforts to support their learning. This webinar provides an opportunity to reflect deliberately and deeply on how we can support students …
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Exploring Environmental Change Through Critical Inquiry
How do we engage students in realistic yet hopeful discussions around changing environmental patterns created by human impact? Using critical thinking as a key framework, this session will provide an opportunity to explore innovative strategies and approaches to teaching topics in changing physical patterns from the new grade 7 geography curriculum. Audience: Intermediate (Gr. 7) …
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A Journey to Digital Leadership
Today’s youth use social media to connect, affirm, validate, question, discuss, challenge, plan, record and entertain. The networks available to them emerge and change at a pace that is often mind-boggling for parents and teachers. When we reflect on our students’ use of social media, what is the journey from consumer to responsible user to …