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, 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)
In this short, advocacy video for Principals in Focus 2012, Principals and teachers from several Nova Scotian schools whose staffs operate as professional learning communities discuss the advantages and challenges of switching into a PLC school culture. Their testimony is punctuated by video of their PLCs meeting, and Nova Scotian classrooms supported by PLCs.
The following video is an exerpt from the "Inquiry-Based Learning" segment of the "Senior High Best Practices" series, that is also available on the Digital Video Library - http://dvl.ednet.ns.ca/senior-high-best-practices
LRTS Webinar, orginally aired Thursday, November 8 / 2012.
Presenters:
Eric Therrien, ICT Consultant
Peter Oldreive, ICT Consultant
Find out how you can use the Edu-Portal to access the resources and websites you need. Peter Oldreive and Eric Therrien, ICT Consultants guide you through the process.
