CATCA 2021

Engage your students, improve their learning and communicate progress more effectively and efficiently. Entice parents to connect with their child’s learning while improving school and home communication. This session will focus on five steps that have been designed and proven to challenge students to exceed expectations and better prepare them for high school and the 21-century workforce. Reconstruct your pedagogy and decrease your workload so that you can focus on the development of your students.

The 21st Century has brought multiple waves of innovation and world challenges into the classroom all at once. Learn about the multiple waves and how Albertan teachers can best prepare and share this information with their students. This session will focus on five steps that have been designed and proven to challenge students to exceed expectations and better prepare them for high school and the 21-century workforce.

Le milieu de l’éducation a pris un virage marqué vers l’enquête et les occasions d’apprentissage pratique et exploratoire. La tendance aux espaces créateurs s’inscrit dans une volonté de faire vivre ces approches. Cet atelier fournit des renseignements d’ordre général au sujet des espaces créateurs et du mouvement créatif, tout en incitant les enseignants à s’impliquer en y ouvrant leur salle de classe.

Society encourages people to be hard on themselves and be their biggest critic. Perceived ‘bad performance/behaviour’ can quickly take students down and make it hard to get back up again. Beating themselves up won’t motivate them or make them more successful. Learn five simple ways to help students develop self-compassion so they feel good about themselves. Bounce back from difficult situations easily and quickly. Value themselves. Be happier.

As teachers and students across Alberta begin to make the shift to a concept-based curriculum, how do we adjust our classroom assessment practices? While our core beliefs about assessment haven’t changed, AAC has some timely and helpful advice on how small changes can ensure your assessment aligns with the vision of the new curriculum!
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Within the classroom or online, synchronously or asynchronously, video can allow you to engage, instruct and assess your students in engaging, meaningful, & rigorous ways. Let Christine and Phil guide you through using a variety of methods to effectively use video within your class. In addition to how to incorporate this into your class, hardware and software options will be demonstrated. Lights, Camera, Action.
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Brian is an educator on a mission to expose as many kids as he can to coding and computer science. In this passionate talk, he makes a case for the importance of exposing youth to the principles of coding and computational thinking to prepare them for a rapidly changing future utilizing 21st Century Competencies.This presentation will explore the use of digital tools to engage learners, build Knowledge Construction and revisit the pedagogical history of Jean Piaget's Constructivist Learning Theory. By enabling the "maker" in all of us, assessment and evaluation becomes immediate, effective and ongoing using digital technologies to communicate thinking with staff, students and parents.

Cette session offre à chacun l’occasion de réfléchir aux cadres juridiques, à la politique, et aux autres exigences relatives à la croissance professionnelle des enseignants; de se familiariser avec les composantes essentielles et efficaces du plan de croissance; et de découvrir les documents d’appuis et les outils à la disposition des enseignants pour élaborer un plan de croissance professionnelle. Le processus d’évaluation des enseignants et les exigences pour l’obtention du brevet d’enseignement permanent seront également abordés pendant la session.

Brian is an educator on a mission to expose as many kids as he can to coding and computer science. In this passionate talk, he makes a case for the importance of exposing youth to the principles of coding and computational thinking to prepare them for a rapidly changing future utilizing 21st Century Competencies.This presentation will explore the use of digital tools to engage learners, build Knowledge Construction and revisit the pedagogical history of Jean Piaget's Constructivist Learning Theory. By enabling the "maker" in all of us, assessment and evaluation becomes immediate, effective and ongoing using digital technologies to communicate thinking with staff, students and parents.

Based on Suze's career as a teacher followed by 20 years developing and training practitioners in Belief Re-patterning®, the personal development technique grounded in learning theory that she pioneered, the focus of this session is to explore practical and easy tips and techniques for you to:
• Develop positive self-talk habits
• Model positive self-talk for your students
• Integrate mindfulness into your day to day activities and lessons, and
• Explore foundational learnings that you and your students can practice both at school and at home to improve mindset and learning outcomes.

Have you ever ignored that little voice, or gut feeling, that tells you to grab an item on your way out the door, then wished you’d listened, because, “Darn! That would’ve been handy to have right now!” That inner guidance was your intuition. Intuition is like a muscle – exercising it makes it stronger. In this interactive session, learn simple exercises that build – and teach you to trust – your intuition and bring greater ease into your life and your classroom.

*THIS SESSION WILL NOT BE RECORDED*

Participates will learn:
What courageous leadership and cultures look like and what happens when courage is absent.
Spoiler alert: Without courage, toxicity thrives.
What gets in the way of us showing up as our whole selves and being brave.
Spoiler alert: It’s not fear.
The four skill sets of courage and how to immediately begin building them and putting them into practice.
Spoiler alert: This includes having tough conversations.

Teachers are some of our most important leaders.

We can’t always ask our students to take off the armor at home, or even on their way to school, because their emotional and physical safety may require self-protection. But what we can do, and what we are ethically called to do, is create a space in our schools and classrooms where all students can walk in and, for that day or hour, take off the crushing weight of their armor, hang it on a rack, and open their heart to truly being seen.

We must be guardians of spaces that allow students to breathe, be curious, and to explore the world and be who they are without suffocation. They deserve one place where they can rumble with vulnerability and their hearts can exhale. And what I know from the research is that we should never underestimate the benefit to a child of having a place to belong—even one—where they can take off their armor. It can and often does change the trajectory of their life.

Highlighted Focus Areas
Skill Set #1: Rumbling With Vulnerability
Define your call to courage as a leader
Understand the role of courage and vulnerability in daring leadership
Understand shame and empathy and their role in daring leadership
Recognize armor and articulate how it gets in the way of daring leadership
Understand the behaviors of armored versus daring leadership
Understand how to develop grounded confidence to replace your armor
Skill Set #2: Living Into Our Values
Learn how values operate in our lives and their role in integrity and daring leadership
Identify your core values and operationalize them into observable behaviors
Learn the daring skills that support you in tough conversations
Skill Set #3: Braving Trust
Understand how trust is built and its role in connection and psychological safety
Learn the seven elements of trust and identify observable behaviors for these elements
Skill Set #4: Learning To Rise
Learn the critical role curiosity and emotional literacy play in developing rising skills
Recognize common strategies for offloading emotions and learn more effective behaviors for managing them
Understand how our brain is wired for stories and how the stories we create affect our behavior and ability to effectively lead and interact with others
Learn how to rumble with our stories

The idea of multiple intelligences introduced by Howard Gardner in the 1970s has revolutionised the teaching world but also brought forward a lot of unanswered questions: how DO you adapt your teaching to the different learning styles present in your classroom?

While the answer is not easy to find, through soul searching, mindfulness and open-mindedness, and using a variety of communication strategies, Maria will introduce you to ways to nurture multiple intelligences while still catering to the needs of the learners as a group. Together, you will identify steps in the developmental phase of an individual, starting with early childhood, elementary years moving into young adult life, that can be used in planning and achieve the set goals.

At anytime you would like to communicate with Maria, you can at the following email:mdmillar@telus.net

As demonstrated year after year, and in the 2018 PISA scores, the Singapore approach to math instruction helps students to demonstrate outstanding math achievement. The key to this success lies in the research-proven pedagogy that follows a natural learning progression.

This workshop will cover:

- The role of the Singapore Math approach in building mathematical fluency and number sense
- What Singapore Math looks like in the Canadian classroom

- Developing critical thinking and mathematical mastery in students with Singapore Math

You’ll leave equipped with tools to introduce these approaches in your school right away. Ready-to-use samples and activities will be provided to try in your classroom

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Interested in Role-playing games such as Dungeons and Dragons or Shadowrun? Want to bring these types of games into the classroom? For the past two years I have been running a Dungeon and Dragons inspired adventure in my Grade 5 classroom. This won't just talk about the "WHY" you should bring this into the classroom, but also, the "HOW". I'll take you through my failures, successes, changes I would make, scheduling, etc. Whether you have been playing these games for years, or have never played a session before in your life, hopefully you can use this information to take back to your classroom!

Perfectionism is not the monster we think it is, but it certainly needs some training and management to be useful in life. This session is for practically helping the young learners who melt down when their grand dreams of perfection are dashed by the cold harsh truth of reality. (i.e.. 7 year old smashes Mother's Day craft because it was only 87% how they imagined it)

The idea that scientific theories are less certain than laws is a common misconception about science. Or that you need a force to keep something moving. Or that global warming is the result of a hole in the ozone layer. Misconceptions are common, pervasive and exist for many different reasons. Challenging and addressing persistent misconceptions can be one of the most challenging aspects of science education.

In this session Kerry and Ian will provide examples of common misconceptions as well as provide techniques to help students along the road to scientific understanding.