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Mental math in the new curriculum: What, how, and why
Are you wondering how to teach mental math? This session will investigate how to use number talks in your classroom to address mental math expectations. Whether you are new to number talks or have been using them regularly in your practice, we will provide practical tips that any teacher can use. Marc Husband Marc …
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Problem Based Learning: How to solve real world issues in today’s classroom – Part 2
In this second session, teachers will continue to build their capacity to facilitate problem based learning in their classrooms and engage students in addressing a relevant social or environmental issue. This session focuses on how to build in cross curricular tasks while meeting curriculum expectations in multiple strands. This webinar is relevant to teachers of all grades and …
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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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An Idea Worth Spreading: TED-Ed talks
TED Talks are recognized for ‘Ideas Worth Spreading’. TED-Ed resources support students (8-18 yrs) creating their own TED like talk. These resources encourage idea creation, exploration and sharing through sequenced discussions and activities. Creating a TED-Ed talk engages students by giving them a purpose and authentic audiences for sharing their knowledge/passion about a topic of …
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Developmental Continua in K-3 Mathematics
In this webinar, participants will be learning to assess students developmentally in Kindergarten to Grade 3 mathematics. We will look at the question, “how does student understanding of number and operations develop?” as a basis for how we plan for instruction, assess “in the moment”, and plan our next instructional steps. Proceeding from counting in …