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Wednesday
, February 20
MacEwan Hall A
6:00pm •
Welcome Reception & Registration
Thursday
, February 21
Education Classroom Block
9:30am •
Travel Time
10:50am •
Travel Time & Nutrition Break
12:10pm •
Lunch
2:40pm •
Travel Time & Nutrition Break
4:00pm •
Travel Time
Education Classroom Block 179
6:00pm •
Thursday Student Social
Education Classroom Block 350
9:40am •
A1.2 - Welcoming Parents Involvement Into Our Classrooms
9:40am •
A1.1 - Assessing the impact teaching abroad has on current teacher’s practice
11:00am •
B1.2 - The Great STEM Race Developing 21st Century Skills through a STEM Inquiry-Based Unit of Study
11:00am •
B1.1 - Designing Middle School Social Studies Lesson Plans and Assessment Tasks: Problem-Based Learning and Authentic Assessment
1:30pm •
C1.2 - Incorporating Indigenous Perspectives in Outdoor Education
1:30pm •
C1.1 - Indigenous Knowledges and Sustainability
2:50pm •
D1.2 - Connecting Students, Schools, and Communities through Service-Learning
2:50pm •
D1.1 - Inspiring Youth Leadership: 3 Years of Change in Southern Alberta
4:10pm •
E1.2 - How Beaver Got a Flat Tail: Engaging Teacher Candidates and Teacher Educators in Indigenization
4:10pm •
E1.1 - Connecting Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Youth: Learnings from a National Youth Gathering
Education Classroom Block 351
9:40am •
A2.2 - Link2Practice: A Model of Ongoing Teacher and Teacher Candidate Professional Learning
9:40am •
A2.1 - Understanding the value of coaching and mentoring to support new and developing teachers
1:30pm •
C2.2 - Transforming thought through reflexive experiential learning: Applying reflective thought to pre-service teacher practice
1:30pm •
C2.1 - Comparing Panel Interviews with Multiple-Mini-Interviews for Admission into Teacher Education
2:50pm •
D2.2 - Design Based Thinking and the Reshaping of Student Teacher Pedagogy and Practice
2:50pm •
D2.1 - Calgary Secondary Teachers' Perceptions of Homework
4:10pm •
E2.2 - Side-by-Side Learning: Teacher Candidates Transforming Practice Through Peer Assessment During Field Experience
4:10pm •
E2.1 - Authenticity as a catalyst for inspiration and connection: Conversations and strategies shared between a student teacher and a practicing teacher
Education Classroom Block 352
9:40am •
A9 - Integrating Indigenous Pedagogies in Cross-Curricular Instruction
11:00am •
B6 - Connecting with Compassionate Communication
1:30pm •
C7 - Connecting with children on the autism spectrum through music and literature
Education Classroom Block 353
9:40am •
A3.1 - Analyzing reading curricula for ideology and representation: The case of Raz-Kids
9:40am •
A3.2 - Developing Course Responsive Resources
11:00am •
B2.1 - Understanding the Factors that Contribute to High School Students’ Decisions to Study Physics in Higher Education
11:00am •
B2.2 - How Students Operationalize Mechanical Dissection in a Science and Technology Class
1:30pm •
C3.1 - “Children like stories”: How to inspire teachers to integrate evolutionary theory through nonfiction picturebooks
1:30pm •
C3.2 - How First Peoples Traditional Storytelling Can Be Used as a Strategy to Improve Literacy in the STEM Classroom
2:50pm •
D3.1 - Digital Good Relations in a Community-Based Indigenous Teacher Education Program
2:50pm •
D3.2 - Teaching for First Nations Students: An Inquiry into the Effectiveness of our teaching during final practicum
4:10pm •
E3.1 - Homophobia in the hallways: Heterosexism and transphobia in Canadian Catholic schools
4:10pm •
E3.2 - Implications of the Legalization of Marijuana in Canada Affecting Educational Policy
Education Classroom Block 354
9:40am •
A4.1 - Identifying authentic assessment tasks in mathematics textbooks
9:40am •
A4.2 - Rethinking Repetition: Building Numeracy Competence in Early/Middle Years
11:00am •
B3.1 - Multiple Sites of Learning: Exploring Teacher Education Through Competencies
11:00am •
B3.2 - The Benefit of Inquiry Based Learning for Teacher Candidates
1:30pm •
C4.2 - Toward Worthwhile Life: Inspiring Capability, Narrative, and Cultural Awareness in Literature/Social Classrooms
1:30pm •
C4.1 - Effective Physical Activity in the Classroom
2:50pm •
D4 - Empowering Students through Inquiry
4:10pm •
E4.1 - ITEP PD School Model
4:10pm •
E4.2 - Pre-Service Teachers' Attitudes and Beliefs Towards Comprehensive School Health
Education Classroom Block 356
9:40am •
A5 - Nightmare on WestCAST Street: Students’ Perceptions of Popular Culture & Literacy
11:00am •
B4.1 - Showing Students that Summer Break doesn’t mean a Break from Learning
11:00am •
B4.2 - Authentic Assessment - How the shaping of assessment can inspire our students
1:30pm •
C5 - Technology Infused Pedagogy: Virtual Reality Brings Learning to Life
2:50pm •
D5 - Destination Imagination After School: Connecting and Inspiring with Vulnerable Youth
4:10pm •
E5 - Inspiring Intrinsic Motivation in Elementary Science Class
Education Classroom Block 357
9:40am •
A6 - Space, Place, and Relationships: Fostering Meaningful Connections with Students and their Environments
11:00am •
B5 - Seeing is Believing: Challenging Alternate Conceptions in Genetics by Connecting Micro and Macro Level Processes
1:30pm •
C6 - Let’s Talk Science in the Classroom - Inspiring the Leaders of Tomorrow
2:50pm •
D6 - The power of hands-on learning - a practical workshop
4:10pm •
E6 - Infusing Creative Movement into the Curriculum
Education Classroom Block 370A
9:40am •
A8 - Rocky View School's Design Thinking Cohort
11:00am •
B7 - Digital technologies: Connecting theory with effective practice
1:30pm •
C8 - Case Scenarios and Supervision Dimensions: Reflective Tools for Engaging with Supervision Practice
2:50pm •
D8 - Drawing Connections Between Western Educational Theories and Indigenous Worldviews and Pedagogies
Education Classroom Block 374
9:40am •
A7 - So you think you can escape? Creating an escape room for your class!
11:00am •
B8 - But do I Belong? Fostering a Sense of Belonging Through The Wonder of Names
1:30pm •
C9 - Language and Belonging Through Socratic Seminar
2:50pm •
D9 - Learning through Making: How Do We Design and Assess the Learning?
4:10pm •
E7 - Readers Theatre: Connecting Reading and Writing in Dual Language Books
Education Tower 01
2:50pm •
D7 - Yoga to Inspire and Connect
4:10pm •
E9 - Classroom-Based Physical Activities
Education Tower 146
9:40am •
A10 - Inspiring and Connecting with Students Through Mural Making
11:00am •
B9 - Valued AND Vulnerable: The complex experiences of male elementary teachers
4:10pm •
E8 - STEM Introductory Electronics Course
5:30pm •
Réception en français
MacEwan Hall A
8:30am •
Opening Keynote - "Gimme Shelter: Building Advocacy, Facilitation, and Confidence in Today's Youth"
Friday
, February 22
Education Classroom Block
9:40am •
Travel Time & Nutrition Break
11:00am •
Travel Time
12:20pm •
Travel Time
Education Classroom Block 350
8:30am •
F1.2 - A critical inquiry into a pedagogical framework for incorporating First Nations perspectives in science teaching
8:30am •
F1.1 - Artwork from Residential Schools as a Window into Understanding Canadian Residential Students’ Experiences
11:10am •
H1.1 - Let's see what happens: The Importance of Being Earnestly Curious
11:10am •
H1.2 - Developing the life-long critical thinker
Education Classroom Block 351
8:30am •
F2.1 - Teacher Candidates' Perceptions and Reflections on their Social Emotional Competencies
8:30am •
F2.2 - Digital ePortfolios: Bridging teacher education and professional practices in schools
9:50am •
G1.1 - Our First Teacher: The Land - Inciting Students' Curiosity in Math & Science through Relevancy
11:10am •
H2.1 - Connecting Imagination
11:10am •
H2.2 - Aspiring to Inspire
Education Classroom Block 352
8:30am •
F5 - E.P.P.I.K: Educational Professionals Planning Interdisciplinary Knowledge
9:50am •
G9 - Teaching Aboriginal Perspectives in our classrooms
11:10am •
H9 - Representing Canada's policy history with its First Peoples through the Arts
Education Classroom Block 353
8:30am •
F3.1 - Partnering for Transformation: Seeking the Threads That Connect Us
8:30am •
F3.2 - Building today's classroom: Mortimer Adler's theory and Constructivism
9:50am •
G2.2 - Inspiring Students to Feed the World: Careers in Food and Agriculture
9:50am •
G2.1 - Designing an interdisciplinary course: Identity, citizenship, authenticity, and real-world problems in secondary science
11:10am •
H3.2 - British Columbia French teacher candidates’ experiences navigating the digital terrain of the language classroom
11:10am •
H3.1 - Ready, Set, Action: Using Film in Foreign Language Classes
Education Classroom Block 354
8:30am •
F10 - Transgender Awareness: Proactively Creating Safe Spaces in Our Classrooms
9:50am •
G3.2 - Perfectionism and its connection to Mental Illness
9:50am •
G3.1 - Strategies for Promoting Engagement, Communication, and Self-Regulation for Children with Autism
11:10am •
H4.2 - Current events, the classroom and student needs: An eco-system for success and connection
11:10am •
H4.1 - From deserted classrooms to vibrant classrooms alive with boys! Opening Calgary's only public boys' school
Education Classroom Block 356
8:30am •
F4.1 - Connecting with Refugee Students Through Trauma Informed Practices
8:30am •
F4.2 - Connecting Across Cultures: What happens when people play the Refugee Journeys Board Game?
9:50am •
G5 - Engaging preservice teachers in selecting mathematics tasks based on level of cognitive demand
11:10am •
H5 - Enhancing Mathematical Understanding With Manipulatives in Grades 4 - 6
Education Classroom Block 357
8:30am •
F6 - The Value of Connections Outside of the Classroom in Pursuit of Inspiring Students
9:50am •
G7 - Using Math Work Stations in the K-8 Classroom
11:10am •
H6 - Cool Careers in the Classroom: Creative Approaches to Infusing Career Development into Middle Years Classrooms
Education Classroom Block 370A
8:30am •
F7 - Connecting Educators to Competency Based Education
9:50am •
G4 - Environmental Science Curriculum Development Project for the Stream to Sea Program: Students share their learning
11:10am •
H7 - The Importance of Character Strengths for Building Resilience
Education Classroom Block 374
8:30am •
F9 - Creating a Sensory Smart Classroom
9:50am •
G8 - Who are the Métis?: An Experiential Introduction to the Lifeways of the Red River Métis & the Sociocultural Impacts of Canadian Expansion
11:10am •
H8 - Stay Fit with Micro:bit
Education Tower 01
11:10am •
H10 - Mindfulness and Meditation: Activities and Benefits for the Classroom
Education Tower 146
8:30am •
F8 - Rediscovering your schoolyard: A Lesson in Orienteering
9:50am •
G6 - Elementary Computer Coding
MacEwan Hall A
12:45pm •
Closing Keynote & Buffet Lunch - "Creativity in the Classroom"
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