In this two-part segment, our teachers discuss and demonstrate how they establish routines, integrate outcomes into a play-based curriculum, set up and manage flexible and varied learning zones, and ensure a balance between choice and more formal learning opportunities. This combination of routines, careful planning, use of engaging materials, and effective teaching helps students become highly engaged in their own learning. Through this engagement, they develop stamina and the ability to self-regulate. As they move toward developmentally appropriate independence, we see students taking responsibility for their own learning and for the environment in which this learning occurs.
In this two-part segment, our teachers discuss and demonstrate how they establish routines, integrate outcomes into a play-based curriculum, set up and manage flexible and varied learning zones, and ensure a balance between choice and more formal learning opportunities. This combination of routines, careful planning, use of engaging materials, and effective teaching helps students become highly engaged in their own learning. Through this engagement, they develop stamina and the ability to self-regulate. As they move toward developmentally appropriate independence, we see students taking responsibility for their own learning and for the environment in which this learning occurs.
Talk is critical to learning and play-based learning offers many diverse ways for students to use talk as a vehicle for learning. In this segment, teachers share and demonstrate tips, tools, and techniques for embedding and encouraging talk opportunities within every learning experience. We will see students problem solving, planning, playing games, and sharing their learning. Our teachers discuss both the incidental and deliberately structured opportunities they provide for their students.
In this first segment, we introduce the major topics for our series - Oral Language, Planning, Assessment, and Cross Curricular Work - all through the lens of a play-based curriculum. Our featured teachers also discuss ways in which they establish routines, select materials, and infuse playfulness into everything they do. The teachers discuss the importance of play-based learning and their decision to make play an integral part of the learning experience for their students.
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, 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.
