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Embedding Anti-Racism Education into Everyday Teaching Practice
Anti-Black racism is a troubling phenomenon that Ontario educators have become increasingly aware of in recent months. Creating teaching and learning environments where all students see themselves, can learn, grow and thrive is important to their success. Data show that not all students are achieving to their full potential due to systemic racism and other …
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Inspiring Awe and Wonder – Increasing student engagement in classrooms
Student engagement is one of the hot issues in education and seems to be an enduring challenge. A recent Gallup poll in the US found the longer children are in school the less they want to be there. During this session participants will consider what it means to be intellectually engaged and will apply a …
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Critical Thinking in Inquiry and Assessment
What if teachers used rich, inquiry-driven assessment tasks to drive the learning rather than as a culmination of learning? Join this exploration of an innovative way to plan curriculum around inquiry that ensures deep thinking and effective and manageable assessment for and as learning. Audience: All levels Resources: The Critical Thinking Consortium (TC2) Anne Davies Caine …
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Using the Cascading Curriculum as a Springboard to Social Studies Inquiry
Discover the power of a cascading curriculum for engaging students in inquiry, an important focus in the new Ontario Social Studies curriculum. Learn how to implement a cascading model in which the learning flows from a rich, provocative question and task. Designed as a follow-up on previous sessions which introduced the cascading curriculum concept, this …