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Using Assessment as Learning to Increase Student Proficiency in FSL
With the implementation of the revised FSL curriculum now well underway, an ongoing struggle for classroom teachers is how to increase student proficiency in the target language. Working with communication goals instead of isolated structures, teachers are striving to develop confidence and real-world language with students. How can we scaffold the necessary skills and provide …
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Spiraling INTO Control: A Different Way to Plan and Teach Math for Deeper Student Understandings
In this session, Mary-Kay will share her approach to spiraling through the Math curriculum, balancing content expectations and the math processes, to achieve her goal of strengthening students’ mathematical reasoning skills. As well, discussion will look at how this approach better aligns with the assessment practices described in Growing Success. Student work will be from …
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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 …