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Thursday, May 19

Engaging Students in Social Media to Explore Global and Social Justice Issues

Today’s students are immersed in a changing and challenging world. They have a deep interest in many of the world’s greatest challenges: poverty, peace, environmental sustainability, food and water security and indigenous issues. They also are prolific users of social media to connect, collaborate and create to investigate these complex issues. Explore some of these …

Tuesday, May 24

Financial Literacy: Resources for Secondary Teachers

Discover the rich learning opportunities free financial literacy resources can bring to your secondary classroom. This session shares how to take advantage of many excellent resources, including complete lesson plans, videos, interactive games, and much more. These resources are all freely available to all teachers and address a variety of student learning styles. Financial literacy …

Wednesday, May 25

Creating Interactive Classrooms

This session will explore augmented reality (using multiple senses to access information) and QR (quick response) codes to make physical content interact with digital content. Make the most of the devices in your classroom to increase student engagement through fun, interactive learning opportunities. Topics will range from creating interactive bulletin boards to hands-on student projects to using …

Monday, May 30

Listening and Speaking in Action in the secondary FSL Classroom (OTF Connects)

In this webinar, participants will briefly examine the action-oriented approach and will explore how to develop student engagement, confidence and proficiency in the secondary Core French classroom. During the webinar, teachers will have opportunities to: Discuss aspects of the action-oriented approach Share and discuss strategies that support spontaneous oral interaction in the classroom Explore ways to …

Tuesday, May 31

Exploring the “E” in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics)

This webinar explores how the “E” in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics) aligns with the inquiry process within the Science and Mathematics curriculum.  During this session, the engineering mindset and process will be explored using a series of free resources created by WEMADEIT.  Teachers will explore how engineering is connected to helping our society …