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OTF Connects : Climate Change Challenges: Educators Exploring the Opportunities – WIth Susan Elliott
Dr. Susan Elliott presents on integrating environmental education across K-12 curriculums, focusing on climate change, STEM education, and active learning. She emphasizes the importance of engaging students in hands-on, real-world problem-solving activities to make learning relevant and impactful. The presentation covers the utilization of resources like the Climate Learning website and the Climate Atlas of …
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Celebrating the New ICD2O “Digital Technology and Innovations in the Changing World” Computer Studies Course
The new ICD20 course emphasizes the evolving role of digital technology in education, shifting towards incorporating innovations to prepare students for a technologically advanced society. The curriculum places a strong emphasis on computational thinking and programming skills, aiming to develop students’ abilities to solve complex problems using digital technologies. Integration of emerging technologies, such as …
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Learning to code, Coding to Learn (with Scratch and Makecode)
Many teachers organized exciting “Hour of Code” explorations for their students in December 2019. How might you turn the “hour of code” into “the year of learning” for your students? How can learning to code support the development of mathematical processes? How do students learn through the act of coding? If you’re interested in learning …
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Supporting Improved Math Achievement Through a Focus on Wellness
Join this energetic discussion about classroom routines, conversation structures, assessment practices and student voice as they relate to a problem-solving math class and student wellness. The positive impact that these have had on the culture in the facilitator’s class and on student achievement is noteworthy. As well, participants are invited to bring their questions and …
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Honouring Teacher Well-Being – Part 1: More than Just a Passing Grade – A Strengths-Based Approach to Educator Well-being and Flourishing School Cultures
In this session teachers will learn the basic building blocks of Positive Psychology’s model of well-being (Flourishing) including the 24 Character Strengths and 6 Virtues, the 10 Positive Emotions and the PERMA-V model of Flourishing as it pertains to physical, cognitive, social and emotional well-being. Notions of resilience as the ability to authentically experience adversity …