Short for web-based seminar, a webinar is a presentation, lecture, workshop or seminar that is transmitted over the web. The key feature of a webinar is its interactive elements - the ability to give, receive and discuss information, typically through slide show presentations, streaming video, VoIP, whiteboard and text chat.
Focus: Differentiated Instruction
A Guide to Support Implementation: Essential Conditions was developed by a provincial working group of education partners committed to realizing positive change in Alberta's schools and classrooms.
Focus: Assessment, Career and Technology Studies, Differentiated Instruction, English Language Learners, Fine Arts, FNMI (First Nations, Métis and Inuit), French, International Languages & Culture, Leadership
The Alberta Professional Development Consortia (ARPDC) are dedicated to promoting student learning and achievement, school improvement and parental engagement in the educational process through the provision of professional learning opportunities. The intent of this website is to provide you with a variety of accessible learning opportunities to support implementation of an inclusive learning environment.
Focus: Inclusive Education, Early Learning, FNMI, Differentiated Instruction, English Language Learners, Leadership
with Sherry Bennett
This webinar series provides support in four key areas of assessment practice. Materials from the AAC website are shared that are available to support ongoing study and development work at the jurisdiction level.
Part 4: Differentiated Assessment
Differentiated instruction and assessment are essential in supporting student learning. Learner outcomes from a variety of subjects and grades are used to model a process for making decisions in regard to differentiated assessment - what can be differentiated, what should be differentiated and what should not be differentiated.
Focus: Assessment, Differentiated Instruction, Leadership
with Carla Fisher
This interactive session will introduce teachers to a variety of instructional tools and strategies to scaffold ESL students for success. This session will describe manageable ways to meet the needs of all students within a safe, inclusive environment and answer these key questions:
Focus: Differentiated Instruction, English Language Learners
Building on lessons learned in Session 1, Using Google Earth in the Inclusive, UDL Classroom, you will engage in specific activities for using Google Earth in language arts and social studies, both as a full-class instructional tool as well as a learning tool for each student in a laptop or computer lab environment.
* Conversation guide available
Focus: Differentiated Instruction, Literacy / English Language Arts, Social Studies, Technology Integration
with Terri Reid
This session introduces the Learn EveryWare materials and explores ways to use them with students in the classroom or at home to access extra help as well as examining how these materials provide multiple paths for students to engage with learning concepts. You will learn how to access, preview and download Learn EveryWare materials.
* Conversation guide available
Focus: Differentiated Instruction, Mathematics, Technology Integration
with Terri Reid
This session explores the new resources for Math 1 – 9 which are free to Alberta teachers (Note – there currently are NO Learn EveryWare Materials developed for Math 7) and considers effective engagement strategies that support student learning. You will examine how the Learn EveryWare materials can be used to support different student learning styles while focusing on increasing student interaction, collaboration, active learning and time on task.
* Conversation guide available
Focus: Differentiated Instruction, Mathematics, Technology Integration
with Terri Reid
This session explores the new resources for Math 10-3 and Math 10-C, which are free to Alberta teachers, and considers effective engagement strategies to support student learning. You will discover how to use these digital materials in classrooms with varying levels of technology as well as how to make them available to students and parents any time, any place, any pace.
* Conversation guide available
Focus: Differentiated Instruction, Mathematics, Technology Integration
with Danny Maas
Building on lessons learned in Session 1, Using Google Earth in the Inclusive, UDL Classroom, you will engage in specific activities for using Google Earth in mathematics and science, both as a full-class instructional tool as well as a learning tool for each student in a laptop or computer lab environment.
* Conversation guide available
Focus: Differentiated Instruction, Mathematics, Science, Technology Integration
Google Earth is a virtual globe, map and geographic information program that has many tools and overlays which have direct applications to all core subjects and supports a universal design for learning (UDL) classroom. This session provides an overview of Google Earth and how it can be used to personalize the learning of students of varying ability levels, interests, and learning preferences.
* Conversation guide available
Focus: Differentiated Instruction, Inclusive Education, Technology Integration
Meeting Diverse Learning Needs With Differentiated Instruction
This resource page houses a collection of archived (recorded) webinars with accompanying conversation guides designed as support material for the Alberta Education print resource "Making a Difference".
* Conversation guide available
Focus: Differentiated Instruction, Inclusive Education
with Candace Beaton
This session will focus on how the differentiation strategies that teachers use to address the diverse learning needs within their classroom can be applied to create engaging, interactive lessons and activities with Notebook software. Participants will learn ways to differentiate content created in Notebook Software and be given ideas on how to differentiate the process of an activity in Notebook software.
Focus: Differentiated Instruction, Technology Integration
AlbertaPD is a project designed to support the professional learning of classroom teachers in the areas of differentiating instruction and assessment for diverse learners, based on the Alberta Education resource Making a Difference. It is offered by a collaborative community of PD providers via various distributed learning technologies.
Focus: Assessment, Differentiated Instruction
(with Pat Shields-Ramsey)
This webinar explores what differentiated instruction can look like in social studies classrooms and how to implement strategies that differentiate learning and meet diverse student needs.
Focus: Differentiated Instruction, Social Studies
with Aaron Ball
This two part session examines the research and practical applications of video games as learning tools. You will search for, play, and examine online games to find their fit in the Alberta Curriculum. You will learn to evaluate games and build assessment pieces to help you incorporate video games as contemporary tools in your 21st century classroom.
Focus: Assessment, Differentiated Instruction, Literacy / English Language Arts, Mathematics, Social Studies, Technology Integration