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LT2: Learning and Teaching Early Math with Learning Trajectories
LT2: Learning and Teaching Early Math with Learning Trajectories In this session, participants will explore the concept of learning trajectories. They will begin to: – Connect the LT (2) site mathematical learning trajectories to Ontario mathematics curriculum expectations (learning goals/targets) – Videos to assess and place their students on mathematics learning trajectories which lead to …
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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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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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The Kindergarten Addendum Part 2: Documenting Learning
Now that you’ve experienced the process of working with the new templates, how is your thinking about the connection between pedagogical documentation and communicating children’s learning evolving? How might the learning revealed in the documentation help inform key learning, growth in learning and next steps? Come share strategies and insights with other Kindergarten educators across …
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The Kindergarten Addendum Part 1: What’s in it For Me?
This winter, educators across Ontario will be communicating learning to families using a new provincial format. Come explore the Kindergarten Addendum, and in particular, the Communication of Learning templates in more detail, as you discover what assessing, evaluating and communicating learning look like in Kindergarten. (N.B. This is the first of a 2-part series; we’ll …