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Re-Energizing the Junior Classroom
Join two dynamic educators in this webinar as they lead you through some hands-on learning that will equip and empower you with new skills, tools and ideas that can enhance engagement in any class. Explore how student choice leads to enhanced intrinsic motivation in a variety of curricula and contexts including language, math, and coding. …
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Pathways to student success in Social Studies, History and Geography: Exploring engaging possibilities
In this webinar, participants will examine approaches, strategies, habits of mind and resources that lead to deeper learning, critical thinking and skill development in the areas of inquiry, historical thinking, and global competencies. Participants will also explore an approach and resources, developed by the Ontario Elementary Social Studies Teachers Association, that support learning through an …
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Strategies for Student Ownership of Learning – Part 1 of 2
As Math teachers, we want our students to love math and to be fully engaged in learning. In our almost 50 years of collective teaching practice we have recognized that in order to make this happen, we needed to change and augment our teaching practice. In part 1 of this two-part interactive webinar series, we …
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Building Community through Inquiry & Collaboration in the Secondary History and Civics Classroom
Students need to know each other to learn from each other. As students return to the classroom and face to face learning, many educators are seeing the need to rebuild a classroom community. This workshop will focus on tips for building community, ways to increase student engagement, collaborative learning strategies and practical strategies to gather …
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Integrating Minecraft and MakeCode Codebuilder into your Math Program
Minecraft is an engaging platform to explore many different program areas. In this session, we’ll look at how MakeCode and the Minecraft Codebuilder can be used to explore coding concepts from the Grades 1-8 Math curriculum. We’ll look at the various event structures (sequential, concurrent, repeating, nested), conditionals, and controls referenced in the document and …