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The French Immersion Classroom: Enhancing Teaching Practice and Developing Students’ Communication Through Cross-Curricular Balance and the use of Technology
With a focus on the Junior French Immersion classroom (grades 5 and 6), cross-reference curriculum areas taught in French to develop balanced literacy lessons and consistently integrate School Board issued technology (IPADS) into learning activities
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Level Up Your Social Studies Program – Gamifying the New Curriculum
Implementing game-based learning throughout our classes, specifically in social studies work, as a means to motivate and engage learners and develop critical and creative thinking skills.
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Blended Learning 3.0
We utilized new information and communication technologies (ICTs) to enhance our teaching and student learning. We used the gradual release model to allow students to embrace it as a new norm and be accountable for their personal success.
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Using Technology to Create Dynamically Driven Professional Learning Communities (PLCs)
Traditional PLCs and a dynamically driven PLC were formed and their organizational features and benefits were contrasted. Traditional PLCs focused on broad strategies, but lacked agility compared to the dynamic model.
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Using Three-Act Math and Technology to Improve Student Engagement and Increase Conceptual Understanding in Mathematics
Having experienced success with Three-Act Math, we were interested in pursuing more time to research and create a teacher-friendly Resource of Three-Act Math and related online activities. This resource would align to the Ontario Math Curriculum.