Professional Development

Mathematics

E-Workshop: What are Literacy & Numeracy?

I completed Module one of the e-workshop run by the Calgary Regional Consortium. This Module explored what is meant by the words literacy and numeracy and why they are both important parts of our every day lives.

March 2017

How to Learn Math: For Teachers and Parents

I completed the online course run by Jo Boaler through Stanford University, course XEDUC115N . During the course I was required to watch videos, post responses, and write short essays on what I learned through the course and how that learning impacted my beliefs. I highly encourage other math teachers to work through the course, it was well worth the time.

June 2014 to June 2015

Evidence of Learning - How Do I Know What They Know? Secondary

This session was presented by Vicki Wisheu, and arranged by the Calgary Regional Consortium. All four members of my math department were able to go to this session together. It was realy great because for the first time, our whole department was able to speak with common language about Formative assessment and worthwhile tasks. We learned to use the program Tarsia to create self checking puzzles.

Dec 2014

Mathematics Council of the Alberta Teachers' Association (MCATA)

Every year there is a MCATA conference that has teachers and experts in the field in to present on a variety of topics relating to teaching mathematics. There are multiple sessions being presented at any one time, so you are able to tailor the conference to meet your professional development needs.

Oct 2011

Oct 2014

Technology

Game Elements for Learning (GE4L)

During the summer of 2013, I participated in a Massively Open Online Course (MOOC) run by Academic Partnerships and Canvas Network. During this course we examined how elements found in games could positively influence student learning.

July 2013

Science

Alberta Science Network

The Alberta Science Network (formely Calgary Science Network) sets up workshops that provide teachers with examples of what different experiments and activities could be used to cover the Program of Studies: The workshops provide take away examples and booklets that directly translate into the classroom. The workshops I participated in were:

Plants for Food and Fiber/Interactions and Ecosystems 2015
Planet Earth 2015
Light and Optical Systems 2006
Matter and Chemical Change 2006
Heat and Temperature 2006
Air and Aerodynamics 2006
Flight 2006
Rocks and Minerals 2006
Structures and Forces 2005
Plants for Food and Fiber 2005
Evidence and Investigation 2005
Building, Materials, and Design- Part 2 2005
Trees and Forests 2005
Building Materials and Design-Part 1 2005
Trees and Forests 2004
Evidence and Investigations 2004
Magnetism 2002
Liquids/ Boats and Buoyancy 2002

B.P. Energy Conference

This conference was part of my A+ for Energy Award. I spent a week learning about the energy industries directly from those involved in the industry. I learned more indepth information about renewable resources and about the oil and gas industry. I came back to school with samples of oil in different stages of the refining process that really helped to highlight what refining oil actually means.

August 2008

French

M.I.E.L.S.

I had the opportunity to participate in the immersion program for teachers run by the Université de Saint-Boniface. During each program we were required to speak French, work on improving our grammar, and design lessons that could be used in the classroom. This program is now called the FIT program.

October 1998 ~ Intermédiaire C/D
July 1999 ~ Avancé
July 2000 ~ Avancé -Perfectionnement

Education Reform

Damian Cooper

I was able to attend this workshop in which Damian Cooper demonstrated how it was possible to get more out of students, if we treated them fairly not equally. I really enjoyed this workshop because it helped to refine my beliefs about the difference between fair and equal.

April 2014

Learning Leaders' Galileo Workshop

During the 2014-2015 school year, I attended Learning Leader meetings run by the Galileo Educational Network. During these workshops which were held once a month, I was introduced to the Teacher Effectiveness Framework. This framework is guiding my school based professional development this year.

2016-2017

2014-2015

CBE K-12 Math Strategy Cohort

During the 2017-2018 school year, I attended the K-12 Math Strategy Cohort. This Cohort involved working with two other members of my school to work on the math portion of our School Development Plan (SDP) and to create and run two math sessions at our school to build math capacity in all of the teachers who work at Fox.

2017-2018

Professional Reading

Read to Learn

I always have a book on the go that I am reading to improve my professional practice. Clicking each link will take you to the book's online presence. These are but the few that I frequently go back to, there are too many to show here.

Presently

Being

Read

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Calgary Teachers' Convention

CCTCA

Every year on the Thursday and Friday before Family Day, all Calgary Public Teachers and Calgary Catholic Teachers engage in convention. This convention has many sessons to choose from from all disciplines and areas of interest. Each year I ensure I get to at least one mathematics session, one session on a new way to teach, and one session just for fun. I have been going to sessions for the last 13 years so there are too many sessions to list here.

2003-2017

Other Professional Development

1992-1996

CAYC Winnipeg

The CAYC offered after school workshops to teachers. I chose to take them during the time I was at university to help supplement what I was learning during my Education degree. The sessions I attended were:

Portfolios for Grades 1-3
Student-led Conferencing
Co-operative Learning
Games Children Play or Should

Inlets- innovative learning and teaching solutions

The Calgary Academy school offered workshops in ways to improve your teaching practice for struggling learners. The workshops I took were:

Innovative Writing Solutions October 2001
Solutions for Diverse Learning Needs November 2001
Solutions to Integrate Technology into the Elementary Classroom November 2001
Improving Student Behaviour November 2001
Self Esteem Innovations to Increase Student Achievement November 2001

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