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Framing Learning: Problem Solving and Innovation in Kindergarten
The Ontario Kindergarten Program is viewed through the lens of Four Frames of Learning. In this session, participants will dig deep into one of these frames: Problem Solving & Innovation. What does the frame look like in our classrooms? How can we facilitate purposeful, inquiry-based learning to strengthen problem solving skills? How can we document, …
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Not “Just” Playing: Inquiry in the Early Years
In this session, we will dig in and celebrate the authentic & meaningful learning that happens every day in Kindergarten through play. A blend of both theory and practical classroom examples will encourage participants to think carefully about how observed behaviours, conversations, and actions that occur in play-based learning relate directly to the Ontario Kindergarten …
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Classrooms and Communities: Building Positive, Pro-Active Spaces for Learning
The act of documentation helps to highlight the authentic learning and meaningful curriculum outcomes that present themselves naturally in a play-based learning environment. In this session, teachers will: Consider what we can do to make our classrooms communities, and why this important Explore how providing students voice and choice in how we structure our learning …
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Pedagogical Documentation: Highlighting the Learning in Kindergarten
The act of documentation helps to highlight the authentic learning and meaningful curriculum outcomes that present themselves naturally in a play-based learning environment. In this session, teachers will familiarize themselves with the role documentation plays in a Kindergarten program, learn, and see examples of different forms of documentation from practice (photos, videos, student voice, learning …