Name: How Big Movies Help Students Understand Big Transferable Concepts
Start: 2025-02-21T10:30:00-0700
End: 2025-02-21T11:30:00-0700

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

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

Literacy

Audience Div 2, Div 3

SEATCA 2025 - Southeastern Alberta Teachers' Convention

Karena Hartson

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