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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 …
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Getting Started with Play and Inquiry
In this webinar, participants will be able to: set the stage for a successful play and inquiry-based classroom by examining the classroom environment, schedule, and partnership between students, parents, and other educators in the room; begin with inquiry-based learning by looking at the inquiry process, provocations, and observations (noticing and naming the learning); document and …
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Literacy in FDK
The Full-Day Kindergarten Document supports play-based learning. What does this mean when it comes to literacy instruction? This session will explore how inquiry and play can help develop literacy skills and what this looks like in a classroom environment. Topics include: Oral Language Development – How can we develop oral language skills through play? What …