Past Events

CCTCA 2024

Thursday, February 15, 2024

1 km at a Time! How to cultivate a place-based practice for higher student engagement

You know that learning isn’t meant to happen in isolation and you’ve witnessed how excited your students become when you head out on a field trip. You’re certain that your students could learn so much by getting out more, but it feels like so much work! How do you get students out of the school, while finding the sweet spot between teacher-led activities, and laidback free-time? The unique places directly around your school are the perfect launching points for engaging exploration!

In this session you will learn:

  • How to strategically use your school surroundings to design authentic tasks

  • Tips for experiencing all curriculum areas in local context

  • Tricks for selecting activities that are worth the effort you put in!

Place-Based Learning Workshop

Bow Valley Ranch - Fish Creek Park

Date & Time: Saturday, September 23, 2023 9:00-10:30

This 1.5 hour workshop is designed for teachers looking to do this year differently. You’ve seen that students are not engaging with school they way they have in the past. They seem less and less interested in learning, “entertained” with catchy activities and then quickly losing interest. Leaving you tired and uninspired.

Instead of spending your first weeks back to school looking for more activities, this workshop will teach you how to start using the places around your school site to provide a powerful context for learning across subjects. Adopting a place-based approach to learning boosts engagement, motivation, achievement and overall enjoyment of school (for everyone).

In our 1.5 hours together, you will have the opportunity to:

1. Learn the basic underpinnings of place-based education - (Hint: it’s not all nature journalling or year-long projects, unless you want it to be!)

2. Experience live instruction - rather than explain the teaching to you, I’m going to show you how I teach in real life. Take what inspires you back to your own classroom.

3. Tackle this school year differently - by approaching your planning the way you want your students to approach their learning. In action!