GETCA 2025: Full Schedule

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9:00am MST

How to Teach High School - Action Points

Thursday February 27, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am MST

Are you a new teacher, new to high school, or an education student? Do you wish that you had an experience where you were given specfiic action points to help you succeed right from Day 1? This session will focus on those action points to give you the confidence you need to step into a high school classroom. We will focus on how to start the class, manage behaviour, create effective engaging lessons, question strategically, and of course, use formative assessment. You will participate in a lesson where we will pause occasionally to explicitly discuss the methods used. Following the lesson, we will apply these action points to substitute teaching and how they can be modified for success.

Speakers

Jill Agnew

Jill Agnew has taught high school science across the country and has recently been a supply teacher with CBE. She has contributed to the writing of a short manual on how to teach high school, from the perspective of a supply teacher.

Jane Diner

Jane Diner and Jill Agnew have more than 50 years teaching as full time and supply high school science teachers. They have collaborated on writing a manual on how to teach high school: just enough to get started. This is a valuable tool for new teachers and anyone needing a refre... Read More →

GETCA Presentation pdf

Questioning Verb List.doc (1) pdf

Thursday February 27, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am MST
Center High - Room 309 10050 MacDonald Dr NW, Edmonton, AB T5J 0S3, Canada

Retirement/New Teachers, Classroom Management

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Room Details Room 309 (Centre High , large open space - tables good for draping Max capacity for 80 people)
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10:20am MST

Working with new teachers: Levelling up your mentorship skills!

Thursday February 27, 2025 10:20am - 11:20am MST

ECC - Salon 8/9

Supporting new teachers can be both rewarding and challenging. Please join Dr. Vince Bustamante and Dr. Tim Cusack as they share an overview of their forthcoming teacher mentorship book (Corwin Press, Spring 2025). In this session they will share a mentorship mindset model, examine the attitudes, biases, conceptual knowledge, and dispositions (ABCDs) of mentorship and provide practical, hands-on ways to help you be the best mentor you can be!

Speakers

Dr. Tim Cusack

Dean of Education CUE, Concordia University

With over thirty years of experience as a classroom teacher, department head, assistant principal, principal, and superintendent, Tim currently serves as the Dean of Education at Concordia University of Edmonton working with pre-service teachers and leading a Master of Educational... Read More →

Dr. Vince Bustamante

Author, Corwin Press

Vince Bustamante, Ed.D., is a Calgary-based instructional coach, curriculum content developer, and author. Formerly focused on school improvement, Vince now specializes in working with teachers, leadership teams, schools, and school districts in implementing high impact strategies... Read More →

Thursday February 27, 2025 10:20am - 11:20am MST
ECC - Salon 8/9

Retirement/New Teachers, Leadership

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Room Details ECC - Salon 8/9 (Edmonton Convention Centre (ECC), Max capacity for 560 people)
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