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
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 in Mathematics 4, 5, and 6 and discover how this one big idea can set students up for ongoing mathematical success. Topics to be explored during this webinar will include creating and maintaining balance; the concept of a variable; expanding from the equal sign to greater than, less than, greater than or equal; and common misconceptions about equality.
Big Ideas in 4-6 Mathematics: Developing Equality in Mathematics 4-6
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
Presenters
Kelly Ronan - Pearson Education
Robin Harris - Mathematics Curriculum Services
Eric Therrien - ICT Consultant (Mathematics & Sciences)
This webinar will show how to login to the Pearson eText for Math Makes Sense 4-6, 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.
LRTS Webinar, originally aired Wednesday, December 4 / 2013.
Presenters:
Eric Therrien, ICT Consultant
Peter Oldreive, ICT Consultant
OurCloud is a repository space on servers at the Nova Scotia Department of Education and Early Childhood Development. Essentially, it is an online drive where you can download and upload documents and create and share folders. This service provides file sharing between desktop, laptop, netbook, smart phone and tablet devices.
LRTS Webinar, orginally aired Monday, November 26 / 2012.
Presenters:
Ray Fernandes, Education Media Librarian
Eric Therrien, ICT Consultant
Over 9,000 titles are now available for you to stream or download. Learn how to download resources, set up your own play lists and find NS curriculum related content in English and in French. Teachers, Library and School Support staff can access the Online Video Library through the EduPortal - https://edapps.ednet.ns.ca/eduportal
Students and parents access the Online Video Library through the Learn360 website - www.learn360.ca (contact the Media Library to get your school account information lrt@ednet.ns.ca)
