SEATCA 2025 - Southeastern Alberta Teachers' Convention: Full Schedule

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9:00am MST

Cracking the Code of Morphology in Div 1

Friday February 21, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am MST

Morphology is more present in the new Division 1 language arts curriculum. While it is easy to feel overwhelmed by adding one more thing to our existing instruction, morphology doesn’t have to be one of those things. Come and learn some short and easy ideas for weaving morphological instruction into your existing lessons with cross curricular connections.

Speakers

Danielle Martin

Teacher, I.F. Cox School

Friday February 21, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am MST
S151 299 College Dr SE, Medicine Hat, AB

Literacy

Audience Div 1

9:00am MST

Helping Students Navigate Academic Vocabulary Across Subject Areas

Friday February 21, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am MST

E149

Students require specialized skills to be able to cope with the demands of disciplinary text. As students move up in secondary grades, the language of the texts they engage with becomes more specialized and precise, and the language more academic. Academic vocabulary (often referred to as Tier 2 Academic Words) is problematic for students to master, as academic vocabulary can take on dramatically different meanings depending on the usage. As the knowledge students engage with becomes more formalized and complex, so too do the patterns of language that construct that knowledge. This session will take a look at patterns of language and some of the problems with academic vocabulary. Teachers will come away with practical and useful tools that students can use to visualize, organize and structure their thinking to improve their reading, writing and communicating across all subject areas.

Speakers

Karena Hartson

Karena is a secondary literacy consultant who delivers high-level, high-energy professional learning sessions that help teachers leverage their own experiences to support student learning. Teachers attending her sessions will come away with tools and strategies that they can use immediately... Read More →

Friday February 21, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am MST
E149 299 College Dr SE, Medicine Hat, AB

Literacy

Audience Div 3, Div 4

9:00am MST

Simple Classroom Games for LA and Math for Grades K-2

Friday February 21, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am MST

S146

Simple games that can be used to develop or assess basic Language Arts and/or Math will be shared. We will be participating and learning by doing. I will share what I do in my classroom. Hopefully you will find the games useful and applicable.

Speakers

Mona Harris

Friday February 21, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am MST
S146 299 College Dr SE, Medicine Hat, AB

Literacy

Audience Div 1

10:30am MST

How Big Movies Help Students Understand Big Transferable Concepts

Friday February 21, 2025 10:30am - 11:30am MST

E149

Finding Nemo. How to Train Your Dragon. Apollo 13. There are big ideas and big moments in big movies: ideas that can pinpoint key instances of learning and transfer. We’ll examine these moments (and more) and bridge them into classroom learning. Teachers will learn about transfer theory and ways to use movies to explicitly teach for transfer of understanding. This session includes a support package of takeaways, teaching tips, and graphic organizers teachers can use in their classrooms.

Speakers

Karena Hartson

Friday February 21, 2025 10:30am - 11:30am MST
E149 299 College Dr SE, Medicine Hat, AB

Literacy

Audience Div 2, Div 3

10:30am MST

Revise Like a Rockstar: Simple Strategies for Confident Revision

Friday February 21, 2025 10:30am - 11:30am MST

F156

Did you know that experts like Joan Sedita (author of The Writing Rope) recommend spending 40% of writing instruction on the stage of rewriting and revision? In spite of its importance, this crucial step often gets the least amount of attention—largely because many students aren’t sure how to revise effectively or independently. In this session, we’ll dive into practical, easy-to-apply strategies to help your students approach the revision stage with more creativity and confidence. Using techniques from The Writing Revolution, such as sentence expansion, sentence combining, and adding appositives, you'll learn ways to make both drafting and revising more clear and engaging for your students. You’ll also discover strategies for fostering collaboration, helping students work together to improve each other’s writing. By the end of our session, you'll be equipped with specific feedback techniques and a toolkit of revision strategies to help your students confidently revise both their writing and the writing of their peers!

Speakers

Kayla Young

Optimal Learning Coach, Medicine Hat Public School Division

I have been teaching since 2009, with experience in elementary schools across Edmonton and Calgary, where I focused on supporting students with special needs and learning disabilities. In 2021, I joined MHPSD as an Optimal Learning Coach, where I have had the privilege of guiding... Read More →

Friday February 21, 2025 10:30am - 11:30am MST
F156 299 College Dr SE, Medicine Hat, AB

Literacy

Audience Div 2, Div 3

10:30am MST

Story Making for k-2

Friday February 21, 2025 10:30am - 11:30am MST

S146

How do you help enrich storytelling for beginning writers? Come and learn how to use Story Making in your classrooms. This is very specific to beginning writing.

Speakers

Mona Harris

Friday February 21, 2025 10:30am - 11:30am MST
S146 299 College Dr SE, Medicine Hat, AB

Literacy

Audience Div 1, Early Childhood (PK - K)

1:00pm MST

My Students Can’t Summarize! Please Help!

Friday February 21, 2025 1:00pm - 2:00pm MST

E149

The ability to read and summarize a text is an essential skill. A good summary needs to do more than pick out the big ideas and simplify the text. A good summary helps students to identify and analyze key points in the text and then relate those points to the overall structure of the text. Teaching summarization that is linked to text-structure improves both the quality of the written summaries and students’ overall comprehension of the text. Join Dr. Hartson to explore this powerful method of summarizing text. You’ll walk away with examples, graphic organizers, and materials you can use in your class tomorrow.

Speakers

Karena Hartson

Friday February 21, 2025 1:00pm - 2:00pm MST
E149 299 College Dr SE, Medicine Hat, AB

Literacy

Audience Div 2, Div 3, Div 4