Teaching & Learning
Inquiry Learning I
Inquiry Learning II
Supporting Student Literacy
Powerful Instructional Strategies
Teaching to Students Strengths
The Adaptive Dimension and Differentiated Instruction
Teaching and Learning in Multi-Graded Classrooms
Inquiry Learning I
What are You Wondering?
May 11, 2010 and July 22, 2010
Eamer Auditorium, STF Building, Saskatoon
Inquiry is a powerful instructional approach that when used by teachers contains significant opportunities for increasing student engagement, insight, and depth of understanding.
Participants will be immersed in an inquiry process and have an opportunity to apply their insights to planning for teaching and learning. Participants will be actively engaged in identifying and exploring issues of relevance to them.
Outcomes:
- Participants will increase their understanding of inquiry learning as it relates to the renewed Saskatchewan curricula.
- Participants will explore and apply the elements of an inquiry framework to guide teaching and learning.
- Participants will assemble a repertoire of strategies and tactics linked to the stages of inquiry.
Participants will explore strategies within the inquiry model covering:
- Setting the Context
- Wondering and questioning
- Presenting problems
- Introducing issues
- Investigating
- Gathering, critiquing, analyzing and interpreting information
- Posing questions
- Knowledge Building
- Connecting to prior knowledge
- Exploring new ideas
- Integrating and connecting
- Sharing Understanding
- Explaining and applying new knowledge
- Creating anew
- Reflecting on learning
Workshop Cost
- $94.50 (GST included)
- Cost includes lunch and materials.
Registration
For further information, contact SPDU at call 373-1660/1-800-667-7762.
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Inquiry Learning II
Planning for Inquiry – Creating a Unit of Study
May 12, 2010 and July 23, 2010
Eamer Auditorium, STF Building, Saskatoon
Inquiry is a powerful instructional approach that when used by teachers provides significant opportunities for increasing student engagement, insight and depth of understanding.
Participants will review the inquiry cycle presented in Inquiry Learning I and will have an opportunity to work with a planning model to design an inquiry unit for immediate use in the classroom.
Outcomes:
Participants will deepen their understanding of Inquiry Learning as it relates to the renewed Saskatchewan curriculum.
Participants will examine professional supports needed to integrate inquiry learning into classroom practice.
Participants will use an Inquiry Planner to articulate the components of an inquiry unit. This will include:
- Identifying the big ideas in a unit of study
- Linking outcomes and indicators
- Creating Essential Questions
- teacher-guided questions
- student-guided questions
- Designing instruction and assessment strategies to engage learners in all phases of inquiry:
- Tuning In
- Knowledge Building
- Investigating
- Sharing Understanding
- Reflection and Action
- Identifying and Locating Resources
Workshop Cost
- $94.50 (GST included)
- Cost includes lunch and materials.
Registration
For further information, contact SPDU at call 373-1660/1-800-667-7762.
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May 13, 2010 and July 28, 2010
McDowell Conference Room, STF Building
Saskatoon, SK
Supporting student literacy is a key component in the work of all teachers in every subject area. This workshop will provide an opportunity for teachers in all subject areas to examine and explore instructional strategies that improve student literacy. Participants will experience a differentiated approach to the teaching of literacy based on their interest, readiness, and needs. Facilitators will model, explain, and provide hands-on opportunities for participants to engage with literacy learning.
Outcomes:
- Participants will increase their understanding of the importance of explicitly teaching and using strategies to develop student literacy in all subject areas.
- Participants will explore a repertoire of research based strategies and tactics to support student comprehension and response through writing, speaking and/or representing.
Participants will explore powerful strategies such as:
- Using advance organizers
- Making thinking visible
- Representing thinking graphically
- Mapping ideas and concepts
- Making connections
- Tracking thinking
- Activating prior knowledge
- Designing effective questions
- Using before, during, and after strategies for reading and responding
- Supporting understanding through cueing systems
Workshop Cost
Cost includes lunch and materials.
Registration Information
For further information, contact SPDU at call 373-1660/1-800-667-7762.
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The Adaptive Dimension and Differentiated Instruction
July 27, 2010
This workshop will support educators in answering key questions about the adaptive dimension:
- What is it?
- What can and can't be adapted?
- In what ways can I adapt for specific areas of modalities?
- How can I plan for adaptations?
The workshop will also explore the ways in which differentiated instruction can work in collaboration with the adaptive dimension to support student learning. Information and activities will focus on:
- Key principles of differentiation
- Areas of differentiation
- Examples of differentiation
Participants will gain practical strategies for use in adapting and differentiating including: independent study, tiered activities, centres, curriculum compacting, learning contracts, anchoring activities, and more.
Workshop Cost
Cost includes materials and lunch.
Registration Information
For further information, contact SPDU or call 373-1660/1-800-667-7762.
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Teaching and Learning in Multi-Graded Classrooms
This session is designed to assist participants with developing a vision of how successful teaching and learning can occur in multi-graded classrooms and to explore the challenges and opportunities that exist. A summary of the research into multi-age classrooms will be presented. In addition, participants will be provided with practical strategies that take into consideration effective curriculum, instructional strategies, and assessment techniques that support a learner-centered environment within the multi-level classroom.
For further information, contact SPDU or call 373-1660/1-800-667-7762.
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