Web Experience
What is a WebExperience?
An engaging new approach to professional development. Live and interactive online sessions designed and delivered by teachers for teachers – offering fun and innovative ideas and activities to support your curriculum delivery.
Open to all Kindergarten to Grade 12 Catholic teachers, WebExperience offers bite-sized professional development accessible from anywhere you are (with an internet connection).
More WebExperiences will be posted shortly. Check out our library of archived sessions here!
Elections, Inquiry and Blended Learning
OECTA is proud to partner once again with Elections Canada to present the Elections, Inquiry and Blended Learning WebExperience series.
Critical thinking, collaboration and communication are at the heart of Elections Canada’s curriculum-linked activities for intermediate and secondary students. In this webinar series featuring blended-learning adaptations, teachers will be introduced to one-hour, three-part lessons that foster student voices and engage students in Canadian democracy.
Zoe Flatman, education coordinator at Elections Canada, will take you on a tour of the resources available to teachers. She’ll share tips for engaging all of your students in inquiry-based learning. These bite-sized webinars are a quick and easy way to boost your confidence in facilitating your students’ learning about Canadian elections and democracy.
Elections Canada’s resources are available to order or as free downloads from electionsanddemocracy.ca in English, French and language-learner versions.
Élections, enquête et apprentissage hybride
L’OECTA est fière de s’associer de nouveau à Élections Canada pour vous présenter la série de webinaires Élections, Enquête et Apprentissage Mixte.
La pensée critique, la collaboration et la communication sont au cœur des activités du programme d’Élections Canada destiné aux élèves de cycle intermédiaire et du secondaire. Dans cette série de webinaires présentant des ressources d’apprentissage hybride, les enseignants ont accès à des activités d’une heure, subdivisées en trois parties, qui favorisent l’expression des élèves et les font participer à la démocratie canadienne.
Joseph Péloquin-Hopfner, coordonnateur en éducation à Élections Canada, vous fait découvrir les ressources mises à la disposition des enseignants. Il donne des conseils pour inciter votre classe à s’engager dans une démarche de questionnement et d’enquête. Grâce à ces courts webinaires, il vous sera facile d’engager vos élèves dans une réflexion sur les élections canadiennes et sur la démocratie.
Les ressources d’Élections Canada peuvent être commandées ou téléchargées gratuitement à l’adresse electionsetdemocratie.ca en français, en anglais et en version langage simplifié.
Getting Started with a Systematic and Explicit Early Reading Instruction in Kindergarten and Grade One
This session will provide an overview of effective early literacy instruction with a focus on getting started with systematic and explicit instructional strategies. In particular, sharing several letter- sound activities and blending and segmenting with Elkonin boxes. The session will consider strategies and practice in experience and daily routines with a reflective stance on what to repeat, rethink or remove.
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Running an Effective Phonics Program
The goal of phonics instruction is to teach the relationship between written symbols (letters) and the sounds of spoken language. In this session we will look at this relationship and dig into what makes an effective phonics program, including assessment practices.
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Writing Kindergarten Communication of Learning Comments: Sharing Evidence of Learning Using Pedagogical Documentation
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January 24, 2023
January 26, 2023
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7:00 - 8:30 p.m.
4:30 - 6:00 p.m. |
Kindergarten |
This session will explore how to document with purpose and intention so that collected documentation can be used to create comments for the four frames on the Kindergarten Communication of Learning. We will share and discuss ways to document through the lens of the 4 Frames in a play-based classroom. We will also explore and provide numerous exemplars for comments for all four frames.
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Sounds and Words: How we can support early reading
In this session participants will look at how systematic and explicit instruction of phonemes will enhance student learning of speech to print with Sound Walls. It will demonstrate how teachers can improve instruction of Word Study in orthographic mapping of words to suport Word Walls. The Ministry document, Effective Early Reading Instruction, A Teachers Guide will be used to support learning.
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Books, Books, Books: El Que Lee Mucho, y anda Mucho, ve mucho y sabe mucho”, -- “He who reads a lot and walks a lot, sees a lot and knows a lot.” Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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March 7, 2023
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4:30 - 6:00 p.m. |
Kindergarten to Grade 2 |
This session will take a look at the development of Language Comprehension using high quality literature to support children’s background knowledge, vocabulary, language structures, verbal reasoning and literacy knowledge. Educators will explore sample lessons that use Culturally Responsive instructional strategies to connect students with the cultural wisdom, cultural knowledge and the world around them.
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Oral Language Development in Literacy Rich Spaces
This session will examine why oral language development is important for early literacy and how teachers can support the development of oral language in their classrooms through evidence-based practices.
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