Curriculum Implementation Day
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Curriculum Implementation Day
April 20, 2018 @ 8:30 am - 3:30 pm
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In addition to school-based offerings, the following district sessions will be taking place on April 20th
In order for your facilitator to prep for your session(s) please RSVP using the link below:
In order to confirm spaces, registration numbers will be collected at 12:00pm noon – Friday, April 13
Note: Please bring your own food, snacks, coffee, etc
Session listings below or CLICK HERE for a shared document of all available sessions.
AM Morning Sessions |
Facilitator | Location | Time |
| Unpacking the new curriculum-Starting Points in Planning.
Looking closely at the redesigned curriculum through the lens of big ideas, competencies and content. Level: Secondary |
Jon Hamlin Max 100-120 | Mt. Doug | AM
9:00 – 11:00 |
| Google Suite and Making Learning Visible
Explore ways to use Google Suite tools to facilitate & capture student voice/self-reflection and connect with the core competencies. Level: Grade 4/5 |
Rohan Gowda /Christian MacInnis
Max 60 |
Braefoot Elem Library | AM
9:00 – 11:30 |
| Technology for Learning in a Math Classroom
Explore how different tech tools & resources can increase student voice & choice in secondary math within core competencies Level: Secondary |
Josh Barks
Max 30 |
Lambrick Park | AM
9:00 – 11:30 |
| Roy Lyster
Spend a morning sharing, reflecting, and planning towards content-language integration in French Immersion. Share lesson sequences, discuss successes and challenges and consider how to improve lessons based on reflections and feedback from colleagues. Corrective feedback and questioning will be also be discussed as well as sharing lessons on our google classroom. Vers une approche intégrée en immersion Nous nous rencontrerons pour une demi-journée de partage, de réflexion et de planification visant une approche intégrée en immersion. Les participants auront l’occasion de partager leurs séquences de leçons ciblant une approche intégrée proactive, de discuter des réussites et des défis rencontrés, et de réfléchir à comment améliorer leur séquence. Level: Middle/Secondary |
Madeleine Challies | Central Middle School | AM
8:30 – 11:30 |
| AIM
Did you know that French immersion students are able to learn to speak French fluently during Kindergarten? It is possible using a methodology called AIM (Accelerative Integrated Method). Come spend the day with Kindergarten teacher Karen Oraas to learn some strategies you can use with your students right away. Level: Primary K-3 French Immersion |
Karen Oraas koraas@sd61.bc.ca
Please email Karen Oraas directly if you have any questions about the workshop or the AIM learning series. |
Macaulay Elementary | Full Day
9:00 – 3:00 |
| Creating a Maker Space with Science Venture
Go behind the scenes at the Science Venture Head Quarters and explore what goes into creating a Maker Space. From 3D printing to robotics to design challenge materials, explore our favorite teaching tools. Learn how to design Maker Day events using a model then can be scaled from a classroom to an entire school. Level: Elementary |
Science Venture | UVIC MacLauren D017 | AM
9:00 – 11:30 |
PM Afternoon Sessions |
Facilitator | Location | Time |
| Unpacking the new curriculum-Starting Points in Planning.
Looking closely at the redesigned curriculum through the lens of big ideas, competencies and content. Level: Secondary |
Jon Hamlin
Max 100-120 |
Vic High | PM
1:00 – 3:00 |
| Technology for Learning in a Science Classroom
Explore how different tech tools & resources can increase student voice & choice in secondary science within core competencies. Level: Secondary |
Josh Barks
Max 30 |
Lambrick Park | PM
1:00 – 3:00 |
| Google Suite for Self-Reflection & Core Competencies
Explore ways to use Google Suite tools to facilitate & capture student voice/self-reflection and connect with the core competencies. Level: Middle |
Christian MacInnis
Max 30 |
Lansdowne Middle School | PM
1:00 – 3:00 |
| Helping students reflect on learning- iPads in Primary Explore the use of iPad apps that help students to reflect on their learning and connect with the core competencies.
Level: Primary K-3 |
Rohan GowdaMax 30 | Doncaster Elementary | PM
1:00 – 3:00 |
| Transforming Libraries
A time for teacher librarians to discuss how our libraries are transforming. Together we will look at leading learning within a school learning commons model that is both a space and a mindset tailored to each school learning environment. Teacher Librarians from Saanich School District will share their journey and it will be a kick off to a Transforming Libraries K-12 learning series. Level: K-12 |
Lorraine PowellMetthea Maddern
Emily Pontus Geoff Orme |
Central Middle School Library/Learning Commons | PM
1:00 – 3:00 |
| How to teach early literacy for ELL students
This research based interactive in-service is designed for English Language Learner Teachers who teach students with emerging or beginning English Language Proficiency. Level: K-12 |
Paul Pantaleo | Oaklands Elementary | PM
1:30 – 3:00 |
| TPRS
Follow up session to TPRS learning series. Make and share movie talks and reading scripts. Level: Elementary Middle Secondary |
Meaghan Abra | Cedar Hill Middle School | PM
1:00 – 2:30 |
| Digital Literacy and Coding with Science VentureExplore Science Venture’s new menu of Coding and digital literacy workshops using unplugged and plugged technologies. Learn how to use breadboards and program Arduinos. See how we create activities that move students from being consumers of technologies to producers.
Level: Middle, Secondary |
Science Venture | UVIC MacLaurin D017 | PM
12:30 – 2:30 |
| Career Life Education – Collaboration & Resources
Join me for an overview and discussion about the Career Life Education course (formerly Planning 10). This session will look at the Career Life Education curriculum using “big ideas” as a guide, integrating the building of student portfolios, and will provide curriculum resources that teachers can utilize. Secondary |
Lindsay Johnson | Superintendent’s Conference Room Board Office | PM
1:00 – 3:00 |
| Collected, Connected, Regulated, and Ready for LearningThe Inclusive Learning Support Team will create an opportunity to converse and collaborate around universal supports within our classrooms to support readiness for learning. How can we re-examine our lens of behaviour challenges? What practices are we already implementing and what might we be ready to try? From early intervention to high school, we will look at creative use of space, programming, social emotional learning and connection opportunities within our classrooms.
Levels: Elementary, Middle |
Tanya Ross
Marnice Jones |
Board Room Tolmie Board Office | PM1:00 – 3:00 |
| How can Co-Teaching Support Inclusive Classrooms?
This is an opportunity to: explore how co-teaching can support all students in your classroom as a universal support, identify instructional strategies to support the diverse learners within your classroom, discuss what this can look like in your school – scheduling, staff availability, collaborative planning. We encourage school team members to attend to facilitate collaborative planning. Levels: Elementary, Middle |
Monique MooreDenise Wehner | Conference Room A Tolmie Board Office Annex | PM
1:00 – 3:00 |
| Blanket Exercise
A simple but powerful teaching tool to share the historic and contemporary relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in Canada. Participants will engage in an interactive telling of history that covers pre-contact, treaty-making, colonization and resistance. The activity is followed by a debriefing session. Levels: Elementary, Middle, Secondary |
Craig SchellenbergNella Nelson | Rockheights Middle School Gymnasium | PM
1:00 – 3:00 |