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Teaching Talk: Integrating Oral Language Development in Early Learning Kindergarten
Focusing on the integration of explicit oral language instruction, with a focus on phonological awareness, into all aspects of the ELK program (routines, large and small group activities, individual instruction, and technology use).
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Understanding and Developing Early Years Thinking in Math: Exploring the Connection between Number Sense and Spatial Sense
Exploring the connection between number sense and spatial sense.
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Differentiated Numeracy Instruction in the Primary Classroom (K-2)
This project looks at the math workshop: how to place students along a numeracy continuum, use this assessment to target learning needs through the workshop model, and structure the workshop to promote problem-solving and critical-thinking.
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Examining and Exploring Assessment and Evaluation Within a Problem-Based and Spiralling Framework
This action research was developed to use learning maps, learning goals and success criteria to direct student’s regulation of learning. We developed assessment and evaluation tools that encourage a growth mindset (such as math games).
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Including Student Voice and Choice: Using Multi-Age Groupings and Games to Improve Student Understanding of Quantity in Primary Mathematics Classrooms
Our journey into the role of math games as part of a comprehensive math program and their impact on student understanding in the area of quantity for students in a kindergarten to Grade 3 environment.