Name: Dialogue in the classroom and in your team: Identifying and breaking through texting thought and language
Start: 2021-02-18T10:45:00-0700
End: 2021-02-18T12:00:00-0700

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Dialogue in the classroom and in your team: Identifying and breaking through texting thought and language

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We have come to a point in our lives when the crown of human creativity, that of collaboration and connection, has been reduced to simple, surface answers that lead to simple, surface answers. A colleague and I spent all of last year exploring how students were not able to dialogue with each other. Not just talk, but engage in meaningful conversations. This was our focus for the year. What we realized we had to focus on was surprising. Come to share frustrations, hear stories, ask questions, to listen, and to end up in a place we never set out to find. We will never plan our year the same way again.

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Paul Marlett

Learning Leader, Calgary Board of Education

Paul is a purebred teacher and a maverick in education who focuses on the “art of teaching”. Having taught for over 2 decades outdoors, in the classroom, and in the gym, from grades 1 to 12 in all subject matters and 10 years with the Blended Homeschooling program, he brings unique... Read More →

Thursday February 18, 2021 10:45am - 12:00pm MST
CATCA Virtual Room 067

Curriculum & Pedagogy (TQS 3), Division 3 (Gr 7-9)

CATCA 2021

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Paul Marlett