Play and formal curriculum areas are not mutually exclusive, but work together to enhance student learning. Play is present in all curriculum areas and makes a significant contribution to learning. The combination of hands-on experiences, rich materials, thoughtful planning, and artful teaching supports and engages learners across the range of curriculum areas. In this two-part segment, we see how teachers offer engaging learning opportunities in the specific areas of English language arts, mathematics, and science with links to social activities and the arts. In addition, we see crosscurricular teaching and students choosing their own learning opportunities.
Play and formal curriculum areas are not mutually exclusive, but work together to enhance student learning. Play is present in all curriculum areas and makes a significant contribution to learning. The combination of hands-on experiences, rich materials, thoughtful planning, and artful teaching supports and engages learners across the range of curriculum areas. In this two-part segment, we see how teachers offer engaging learning opportunities in the specific areas of English language arts, mathematics, and science with links to social activities and the arts. In addition, we see crosscurricular teaching and students choosing their own learning opportunities.
We know that in effective classrooms, assessment happens every day in a variety of ways. A play-based classroom offers unique and varied opportunities for teachers to understand and support their students as learners through a variety of assessment approaches. In this segment, we see the teachers using forms of assessment ranging from more formal tools to prompts, observations, self-assessment, and a variety of other ways that help students demonstrate learning. The teachers also share their strategies for organizing and documenting their assessment data.
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.
