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Learning to code, Coding to Learn (with Scratch and Makecode)
Many teachers organized exciting “Hour of Code” explorations for their students in December 2019. How might you turn the “hour of code” into “the year of learning” for your students? How can learning to code support the development of mathematical processes? How do students learn through the act of coding? If you’re interested in learning …
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Supporting Improved Math Achievement Through a Focus on Wellness
Join this energetic discussion about classroom routines, conversation structures, assessment practices and student voice as they relate to a problem-solving math class and student wellness. The positive impact that these have had on the culture in the facilitator’s class and on student achievement is noteworthy. As well, participants are invited to bring their questions and …
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Honouring Teacher Well-Being – Part 1: More than Just a Passing Grade – A Strengths-Based Approach to Educator Well-being and Flourishing School Cultures
In this session teachers will learn the basic building blocks of Positive Psychology’s model of well-being (Flourishing) including the 24 Character Strengths and 6 Virtues, the 10 Positive Emotions and the PERMA-V model of Flourishing as it pertains to physical, cognitive, social and emotional well-being. Notions of resilience as the ability to authentically experience adversity …
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Planning A Week in a Problem-Solving Math Class
In this session, participants will experience what planning a week for a problem-solving Math class might include. Topics to be explored will include 3-part lessons understanding the expectations anticipating student errors & misconceptions the balance between partner and independent work opportunities to build skill fluency assessment & feedback Mary-Kay will share work from her Grade …
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Towards a Pedagogy of Playful Mathematics
The Ontario math curriculum is composed of expectations (the content) and processes (the actions of doing mathematics). The math processes are all about thinking about and doing mathematics. Doing mathematics is pleasurable. This session will explore ways to make mathematics more playful while infusing process and problem-solving into your program. To do that, we will …