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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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Spiraling INTO Control: A Different Way to Plan and Teach Math for Deeper Student Understandings
In this session, Mary-Kay will share her approach to spiraling through the Math curriculum, balancing content expectations and the math processes, to achieve her goal of strengthening students’ mathematical reasoning skills. As well, discussion will look at how this approach better aligns with the assessment practices described in Growing Success. Student work will be from …
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Getting Started with Inquiry – Nov 20, 2017
In this webinar, participants will be looking at an inquiry cycle based on the phases of guided inquiry from the Ontario Library Association’s Together for Learning. Using a Knowledge Building Centre (KBC) template created using Google Sites as an online framework, we can model an inquiry cycle where students develop questions, investigate information, synthesize understanding …
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STEAM Learning in the Early Years
In this webinar, participants will explore each content area of STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and math) and explore what STEAM learning looks like in an early years classroom. We will share ideas that will help participants broaden their students’ interests and deepen their understanding about things they wonder about and wish to investigate. By …
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Learning through Math Games
Developing and playing games with young learners allows educators to naturally embed concepts, methods, and new vocabulary of mathematics into their play. Educators are able to create, adapt, and extend simple games to meet the needs of their classroom. In this webinar, we will look at practical examples that can be used to support student …