In May 2015 the P-3 curriculum was streamlined. This webinar reviewed elements of the renewed curriculum and how this work was designed, developed and reviewed.
Streamlining The P to 3 Curriculum - An Overview and Look at the Process
Sherene Sharpe, Evaluation Services
Robin Harris, Education Program Services
The purpose of this webinar is to introduce teachers, administrators, board mathematics leads, and others to the Lessons Learned document for M4 and how to use it. The document is intended as a support for all elementary teachers, in particular grades Primary – Grade 3 teachers. There are three Lessons Learned in this document. Each Lesson Learned will be discussed in relation to the assessment results, expected pedagogy, next steps in instruction for a class or individual students, and appropriate methods and activities for assessing student learning. The document is a wonderful support for professional development.
Lessons Learned 2013-2014 Nova Scotia Assessment: Mathematics Grade 4
Presenter:
David McKillop, Consultant, Pearson Education
Robin Harris, Mathematics Curriculum Services
Eric Therrien, ICT Consultant (Mathematics & Sciences)
Equality is one of the essential understandings that students must acquire as they learn mathematics. This is a quest that begins in grade Primary and continues into senior high school. Learn how this big idea unfolds from grades Primary to 3 and discover how this one big idea can set students up for ongoing mathematical success. Topics explored during this webinar will include equality as balance; how equality is tied to partitioning and part-whole reasoning; common misconceptions about equality; and the types of tasks that build the concept of equality.
Big Ideas in P–3 Mathematics: Developing Equality in Mathematics Primary - 3
LRTS Webinar, originally aired Wednesday, February 12 / 2014
Presenters:
David Lubin, EBSCO
Ray Fernandes, Education Media Librarian
Teachers and students have easy access 24/7 to online tools to support them. This includes safer search engines, research articles that have appeared in scholarly journals, newspapers and magazines, perfect for homework support or student projects. Encyclopedias, images, current events... many of the resources have speech to text functionality. Best of all these amazing online tools are available to all teachers and students in the province! David Lubin from EBSCO walks us through the EBSCO databases and shows you how to get the most out of this invaluable resource.
Online Resources and Research Tools: Using EBSCO Databases Effectively with Your Students Grades P-6
Mathematics P-3: Partitioning Numbers, an Essential Understanding and Skill for The Growth of Mathematical Thinking
LRTS Webinar, originally aired Tuesday, November 12 / 2013
Presenters:
David McKillop, Pearson Education Canada
Robin Harris , Mathematics Support Consultant,
Eric Therrien, ICT Consultant
One of the most critical skills a student must acquire in the early years is the ability to partition numbers in a variety of ways while recognizing that the total quantity remains unchanged. This is a quest that begins in grade Primary and moves through the grades into a full-fledged understanding of place value. Learn how this big idea unfolds from grades Primary to 3. See how various representations can help students develop their understanding, and discover how this one big idea can set students up for ongoing mathematical success.
LRTS Webinar, originally aired Tuesday, October 9 / 2013.
Presenters: Kelly Ronan, Pearson Education Canada
Robin Harris, Mathematics Curriculum Services
Eric Therrien, ICT Consultant in Mathematics and Sciences
This webinar will be show how to login to the Pearson eText for Math Makes Sense 3, and how to use the Course ID to connect your eText with your students' eTexts. This step will enable you to share notes with your students through the eText platform. Other topics covered will include navigating through the text, adjusting page magnification/view, how to take and share notes, how to highlight passages of text, how to access the added content in the text such as program masters, and how to access the videos and virtual manipulatives.
Mathematics 3: Math Makes Sense 3 eText Walk-Through
LRTS Webinar, orginally aired Thursday, October 17 / 2012.
Presenters:
Stephen Jamieson, Literacy/Technology Mentor
Barry Wilson, English Language Arts Consultant
Peter Oldreive, ICT Consultant
Stephen Jamieson, developer of the Integrating Technology to Support P–3 professional learning Moodle, will showcase how to use the P–3 mobile technology centres in your classroom effectively to support student achievement in literacy. Stephen will be joined at this session by DOE Consultants: Barry Wilson, and Peter Oldrieve.
Using the P–3 Mobile Technology Centres to Support Student Literacy
Beginning the Assessment Process explains how the feature teachers begin reading assessment at the start of the school year, and how that assessment differs from what a teacher might undertake later in the year, especially in Grade Primary.
