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Exploring Spatial Reasoning
During this webinar, participants will observe and engage in spatial reasoning tasks, and become aware of the different curriculum connections embedded in these tasks across the primary grades. They will explore ways to incorporate these activities and connect them to expectations in multiple strands in order to assess student learning and understanding. By the end …
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Creating a Thinking Classroom for Primary Mathematics Part 2
Once we have explored the principles of a primary thinking classroom, we need to consider how to create it? In this session, practical tools will be introduced to help you design the thinking classroom for your students. These tools will help to develop assessment rich classrooms that sustain inquiry, engage your students, and nurture self-regulation. …
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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 …