Happy 2023!!
A new calendar year has begun, while the school year is half over. How are your personal PD amounts looking? Below are some opportunities coming up that might align with your teacher professional growth goals.
Start the conversation with your team, collegues, friends in other schools. How are you going to use your $$ before it is too late.
$40
Participants will be provided the previously recorded sessions from the 2022 program year where Peter Bowers draws on topics in two model lessons with junior high students and models how to use lessons from the book to support vocabulary learning.
Please view these recordings prior to attending the live learning opportunity.
Opening Up Questions For Secondary School Math by Marian Small February 08, 2023
$25.00
It is so important at all levels, even the secondary level, that open questions are part of instruction both to differentiate instruction which is often needed even in streamed courses, but also to engage stuents in richer math conversations to deepen their understanding. We will explore many open questions that would be easy for you to implement to enrich your math instruction.
Tech For Reconciliation- University of Calgary Saturday February 11, 2023
FREE
Tech for Reconciliation is a professional learning experience that pairs culturally relevant Indigenous classroom content with technical coding skills, offering educators a hands-on learning experience to engage students from all backgrounds in powerful acts of reconciliation.
What you’ll learn:
Explore Your Voice is Power, a national competition for middle and high school students designed to teach the fundamentals of computer science, entrepreneurship, and social justice.
Receive tangible support and best teaching practices to deliver culturally relevant content in your classroom to raise awareness of Indigenous experiences in Canada.
Learn the fundamentals of EarSketch, an online coding platform, to guide students through remixing songs from Indigenous artists.
Paint Wooden Slices: Alberta Skies
$59.37 Multiple Thursday evening dates available.
Painting on Wooden Slices is fun! The artist will provide step-by-step instructions for everyone to follow, from painting the wooden slice to make it into magnet for a unique gift or a memorable keepsake. You have the option to choose your favorite Alberta Sky image to paint. Your instructor will guide you through to complete your unique art piece!
All the art supplies will be provided, including one wooden slice magnet for each guest to take home with; paints and paintbrushes for in-workshop use.
How to avoid the Common Challenges of Implementing Project Based Learning. March 1, 2023 4-5:30pm
FREE
We will share current research and implementation stories to demonstrate the difference between effective and ineffective implementation.
Participants can expect to have a solid implementation plan to support PBL in their classrooms, schools and system.
Cultivating Readers for Life – Building Reading Communities March 07, 2023
$25
At the core of powerful reading communities is habitual readers with strong reading identities. With click-and-go reading on the rise, protecting instructional time for deep reading in our classrooms is more important than ever. In this session we will explore approaches to cultivate joyful reading practices, discover opportunities for students to develop positive reading identities, and consider instructional decisions required to develop depth, stamina, and passion in adolescent readers.
Assessment Principles presented by Jay McTighe. Tuesday March 21 9:00am- 11:00am (half day sub)
$50
Internationally-renowned author and consultant, Jay McTighe, will share ideas from two recent books, Assessing Learning in the Classroom – By Design (Teachers College Press, 2021) and Designing Authentic Tasks and Projects: Tools for Meaningful Learning and Assessment (ASCD, 2020). He will present five underlying assessment principles and examine a set of fundamental questions about the What?, Why? and How? of effective classroom assessment. He will examine various assessment purposes – Diagnostic, Formative and Evaluative – and review a framework of the various methods for gathering evidence of student learning. Jay will also offer a 3-part model for a more honest and communicative approach to grading.
The structure for this session will be a two-hour learning opportunity with Jay McTighe, immediately followed by a facilitated conversation with Charlie Kraig to help participants see the concepts in their own contexts and develop plans to move their assessment practices forward.
Assessment and Project Based Learning April 19, 2023 4:00-5:30pm
FREE
In this session will focus on supporting and developing the essential conditions for summative assessment as well as the creation of ongoing feedback loops to support formative assessment. We will look at rubric design to support task design and student outcomes.
Participants can expect to know how to create essential conditions for assessment when using project based learning to support student achievement. Participants will leave assessment practices, tools, tips and tricks to use in their classroom.
WATERSHEDS AND WETLANDS June 1-3, 2023
FREE
If you are an educator looking for ways to enhance and enrich water education in your classroom, this program is for you!
Hear from experts about local issues surrounding our water resources and the pathway to sustainable water management in Alberta. You will have a chance to network and collaborate with like-minded educators on this two-day professional development program and leave with a host of resources to support your learning outcomes!
Whether you teach science, social, environmental, and outdoor education, CALM, or any CTS & CTF topics, the cross-curricular nature of water education topics will definitely find a fit in your classroom!
This program is open to all K-12 teachers, administrators, career counselors, and B.Ed students across Alberta. The program is no cost to attend including all meals, program travel, accommodations, and a supply teacher subsidy if required.
SUMMER INSTITUTE with Inside Education July 4-8 2023.
FREE
Join Inside Education on our 2023 Energy Futures Summer Teacher Institute to get the inside scoop on the current status and future horizons of Alberta’s energy story!
Want to deep dive into how Alberta is addressing energy development in a changing climate? Wondering about what renewables, alternative energy, and lower-carbon innovations actually look like in practice?
On this five-day immersive exploration of energy resources, we will highlight the intersection of energy and climate, the road to net-zero, renewable energy, and innovations; all while networking with like-minded educators and hearing first-hand from experts in the field!
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