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| Friday, October 22, 2010 - 10:45am to 12:00pm |
| 1.1 - Grace Awakens the Heart: how inner and outer life reflect each other |
| Presented By: Brenda Peddigrew, RSM, Ph.D., Adjunct Professor at St. Stephens College, University of Alberta |
| In this workshop, Brenda Peddigrew RSM, Ph.D. will speak about some traditional Christian practices that open us to receiving grace, and how, in turn, grace sustains and grounds necessary everyday life in this often tumultuous and unpredictable world. You will not only hear, but experience the profound beauty of your own inner place of peace, which grace consistently opens to us, and through which we can become channels of grace wherever we are and whatever were doing. Grace awakens the heart, and it is through the heart that we are most able to live in peace and compassion. |
| Audience: All |
| 1.3 - Assessment, Evaluation and Reporting in K-8 Religious Education: Guiding Questions and Answers |
| Presented By: Andrea Bishop Catholic Curriculum Corporation |
| Explore the guiding questions and answers from the Catholic Curriculum Corporation`s 2009 research document, "Assessment, Evaluation and Reporting in Elementary Religious Education". |
| Audience: Elementary |
| 1.4 - Five Secrets to a Mind Blowing Catholic Community |
| Presented By: Lesley Young Brant Haldiman Norfolk Catholic DSB |
| This workshop will offer educators methods for building Catholic communities within their classrooms. We will explore strategies for creating a classroom atmosphere which will bear witness to our Catholic values and story. |
| Audience: All |
| 1.5 - Drama, Religious Education and Catholic Character Formation: All Roads to Literacy |
| Presented By: Jan Bentham Eastern Ontario Catholic Curriculum Cooperative |
| How do we recognize the potential for critical literacy in our Catholic curriculum? With the use of drama activities, literacy strategies and social justice teachings, teachers will see the connections and potential for rich critical literacy experiences. |
| Audience: Elementary |
| 1.6 - Interactive Read-Alouds & the Catholic Virtues |
| Presented By: Suzanne Garneau Windsor-Essex Catholic DSB |
| Interactive Read-Alouds and the Catholic Virtues: Integrating Literacy and Catholicity in the Kindergarten and Early Primary Classroom. Repeated, interactive read-alouds can have a powerful effect on the language development of young children. When infused with Catholic virtues, they can also help young children Awaken to Grace. Participants in this workshop will receive a series of lessons for repeated interactive read-alouds based on the virtues of Belonging, Kindness and Goodness, as well as a list of engaging literature which can be used to develop each of these themes with young children. |
| Audience: JK to Grade 3 |
| 1.7 - Creating a Catholic Creed and Keeping it Alive |
| Presented By: Jodi Kuran, Shannon Reid, Lisa Phillips Huron-Perth Catholic DSB |
| This workshop will guide participants through one secondary school`s collaboratively created Catholic Creed. This remarkably simple step by step process will help educators discern what it is they believe about Catholic Education. Through this profession of faith, educators gain a stronger sense of the enduring gift of Catholic Education and how each of us is responsible for maintaining this gift. |
| Audience: All |
| 1.8 - Educate Students on `What`s Right in Developing Countries?` |
| Presented By: Sandra Kiviaho Ontario English Catholic Teachers Association |
| Let`s focus on the strengths that exist in communities of developing countries and the sustainable livelihood strategies that CHF employs to empower communities to have the skills and knowledge to get out of poverty. This positive language will be the basis of our discussions as we discover how your students can reflect on the issues in an optimistic manner. You will be given access to hands-on practical lessons linked to the Ontario curriculum from CHF`s Global Education program, and tools for encouraging socially responsible action such as Gifts That Matter, Kids Helping Kids Around the World event and our new Reality Race. |
| Audience: Elementary |
| 1.9 - Seeking new Paths of Graces for Inclusive School Communities |
| Presented By: Paul Mayne-Devine and Anthony Scanga Dufferin-Peel Catholic DSB |
| This workshop will share our story of how we discovered new paths of grace that engage students in a high skills major program that help them integrate their faith into educational choices and career opportunities. We will discuss the new Social Justice pathway and the process followed. Courses will be identified that can be included in this pathway. Cooperative education experiences and community partnerships will also be explored. We will focus on the impact on the school and how it influences our entire student body. |
| Audience: Secondary |
| 1.10 - Incorporating Spiritual Dance into the Catholic Curriculum |
| Presented By: Danielle Barrie and Michael Moriarty Peterborough, Victoria, Northumberland, Clarington Catholic DSB |
| This workshop will focus on how to use simple, yet effective, body movements (dance) to represent the faith and passion we share for Christ, as Catholics. Spiritual dance can be used to accentuate the Catholic curriculum we teach and bring new meaning to the celebrations of the Word in which we all take part. In using their gifts, the students can challenge themselves and others to see and feel the message of God in ways that evoke passion and deep thought. Through movement and music students will have the ability to express their understanding of their faith in ways that may challenge them to think in a more involved and reflective manner. |
| Audience: All |
| 1.11 - "That`s So Gay!" -- Beyond Homophobia by Building Inclusive Communities within Catholic Schools |
| Presented By: Kevin Welbes Godin and David Szollosy Catholic Association of Religious and Family Life Educators of Ontario |
| Through identifying and examining obstacles and reflective practice concerning diversity issues in Catholic schools, participants will explore supports and resources for creating safe, caring, and inclusive environments for GLBTT students. Specific concentration will be placed on the Pastoral Guidelines for Students of Same Sex Orientation and the Ministry Document, Realizing the Promise of Diversity and how it dovetails with the goal of creating inclusive communities. |
| Audience: All |
| 1.12 - What`s Fair? Mathematical Inquiry Through a Social Justice Lens |
| Presented By: Susan Davidson Ottawa Catholic DSB |
| As Catholic educators, mathematical inquiry provides us with rich opportunities to infuse Catholic Christian values into a curriculum area that is often taught in isolation from our Church`s social justice teachings. As we ask the question What`s Fair? we can support our students in making the link between junior /intermediate math curriculum expectations and the real world around them, through a social justice lens. This session will provide a helpful handout and practical strategies to bring our Church`s ethical stance into our daily mathematics teaching and learning. |
| Audience: Junior/Intermediate |
| 1.13 - Sensitive Issues: Topics That Can be Challenging to Teach |
| Presented By: Christine Castaldo, Lisa True, Tish Sheppard, Kari Smith Institute for Catholic Education |
| This interactive workshop will provide teachers from grades 1-8 an opportunity to examine this Catholic resource which links Fully Alive expectations to the revised Health and Physical Education expectations and to participate in conversations about sensitive issues. Our workshop will also increase teachers` capacity and comfort level to implement difficult areas of this new curriculum. Explicit connections will be made between Theme 3 from Fully Alive to the Healthy Living strand in the Ministry document. Participants will walk away with a copy of the resource and some practical implementation tips. |
| Audience: Elementary |
| 1.14 - Catholic Student Leadership and the Ontario Catholic School Graduate Expectations |
| Presented By: Lori Lynn Stapleton and Karen Tigani Huron-Perth Catholic DSB |
| Come and hear how the members of the Huron-Perth Catholic District School Board developed a system, cross-panel, Catholic student leadership team. Students learned about and became facilitators of the Catholic Graduate Expectations by creating innovative student-led presentations for all elementary schools. |
| Audience: Elementary |
| 1.15 - Engaging 21st Century Learners |
| Presented By: Jennette Mackenzie Nelson/Novalis |
| Engagement is the student characteristic that has the largest correlation to student achievement in reading literacy. The discrepancy between students` out-of-school literacies and their in-school literacies can lead to lack of engagement and motivation. This workshop will focus on how to use the multi-media world of our students in classroom instruction to engage students and improve their learning. |
| Audience: Intermediate |
| 1.16 - The Catholic Green School: Building Stewardship through High Skills Majors |
| Presented By: Paul Schmidt Dufferin-Peel Catholic DSB |
| This workshop will examine how schools can meet the demands of Acting Today, Shaping Tomorrow, the Ministry`s mandate to significantly lower our carbon footprint in schools through the examination of curriculum changes, pathway development and waste audits. The sustainability team of St. Paul Catholic Secondary School would like to share our experience in trying to align policy goals with school change. |
| Audience: All |
| 1.17 - Getting Along Digitally |
| Presented By: Arlene Davis, Marylou Cortese, Sue Erdelyan and Doug Sadler Windsor-Essex Catholic DSB |
| Catholic Character Development Getting Along Digitally is a peer-led student delivery model designed to capture what youth define as problematic social networking use, and what can be effective in reducing these problems. The model was developed and tested with youth from Holy Name Catholic Secondary School and began with an opportunity to share, candidly, among themselves, about their on-line experiences and provide each other with guidance that takes into account just how important (but not exclusive) on-line activities are to youth. Older students presented to younger students about their on-line experiences and provide them with non-judgemental information that takes into account just how important the Net is to their social relationships This project focuses on the ways in which youth communicate with their peers on-line. The program is intended to enhance and support school-based anti-bullying and Catholic Character development programs already existing in our schools. It is not intended to be a comprehensive approach to internet safety, which should more thoroughly address topics such as predatory behavior, privacy and the safeguarding of identity. |
| Audience: All |