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Building Community through Inquiry & Collaboration in the Secondary History and Civics Classroom
Students need to know each other to learn from each other. As students return to the classroom and face to face learning, many educators are seeing the need to rebuild a classroom community. This workshop will focus on tips for building community, ways to increase student engagement, collaborative learning strategies and practical strategies to gather …
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Using Online Tools To Capture Student Learning -May 22, 2018
Online tools offer educators an opportunity to engage students while capturing their learning, going beyond the traditional evaluation of products and enabling conversations and observations to provide a more complete vision regarding what individual students know and how they can demonstrate their learning. In this session teachers will be introduced to a variety of (free) …
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Modern and Easy Digital Assessment with Growing Success
Ontario’s Growing Success, a foundational document for looking at assessment in public education, and the core of school boards assessment and evaluation plans, has been out since 2010. At its core is the idea of teachers using their professional judgement for assessment with as, of and for learning through the triangulation of data and students …
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Talking…Changes Everything In the Math Class: Assessing Math Through Observations and Conversations
In this webinar, participants will be learning to gather good mathematics assessment data through observations and conversations. They will learn how technological tools can be used to gather evidence of student thinking. They will see why assessing mathematics is about more than just tests or summative tasks. Audience: Grades K-8 Resources: Contact Matthew Oldridge Twitter: …
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Documenting Learning with Technology in the Kindergarten Classroom
Educators are using iPad technology to explore documentation as a way to learn more about how students think and learn. This workshop will focus on innovative ways to increase student engagement, observe student learning, document and study student work, and gain greater insight into effective instruction as we deepen our understanding of pedagogical documentation using …