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Printer Friendly| Facilitator: | Garfield Gini-Newman | ||||
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| Date: | This is a multi-day event.
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| Cost: |
$150.00 $75.00 (to attend just Day Two) (includes lunch, which is not prepared in a nut/gluten-free environment) |
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| Location: |
Edmonton (ATA Barnett House) 11010 - 142 Street NW Google Map |
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| Session Code: | 14-IE-071 | ||||
| Focus: | Inclusive Education Leadership |
Target Audience
Grades K - 12 Teachers, Coaches and Administrators
About this Learning Opportunity
The digital age has created opportunities to engage students in rich learning previously difficult to achieve. We endeavour to engage all students and support the development of critical and creative thinking. The session will focus on the exploration of how sustained inquiry can help to create the conditions that promote deep engagement in learning. You will consider the use of a critical thinking framework to develop learning opportunities around cascaded challenges that flow from rich provocative questions. You will consider how teaching the intellectual tools for quality thinking can support student achievement as well as how technology can be used to create digitally-enhanced learning environments.
Day One: focus on engagement through critical, creative and collaborative inquiry and review/introduction of the TC2 framework.
Day Two: focus on developing curriculum for sustained inquiry (cascading challenges) in a digitally-enhanced learning environment.
This learning opportunity is being provided through funding from Alberta Education.
About the Facilitator
Garfield Gini-Newman is a senior national consultant with The Critical Thinking Consortium and Senior Lecturer at OISE/University of Toronto, he has worked with thousands of teachers across grades and subjects. His five years as a curriculum consultant with the York Region District School Board and his 15 years of teaching experience prepared him well for working with teachers in a manner that is engaging and practical. He has led major projects working with schools to explore the use of interactive technologies to support critical thinking and using digital technologies to enhance critical, creative and collaborative thinking. Garfield speaks across Canada and internationally on critical thinking, brain compatible classrooms, curriculum design and effective assessment practice and nurturing 21st century skills in a digital world. In addition to his work at the University of Toronto and delivering workshops, Garfield has also authored seven textbooks and has taught in the faculties of education at York University and the University of British Columbia. Garfield’s work with educators often has a transformative impact on teaching and learning as he blends humour with a deep understanding of effective curriculum design centred around the infusion of critical thinking for all
