GETCA 2025: Full Schedule

Welcome to GETCA 2025! We are excited to see you soon...

9:00am MST

Using Assessment to Improve Teaching

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

Assessments take many forms, from qualitative observations to assignments and tests. All of these are opportunities for feedback not just for students, but also for teachers. So how can you take advantage of that, and improve what you’re doing in your classroom, without adding a bunch more work to your life? This workshop will explore how you can use the results from all types of assessments to improve your teaching. The facilitators, Jason Cooper and Laura Pankratz, have decades of classroom and assessment experience. Participants in this workshop will engage in discussion and exploration of what is currently working in Alberta classrooms.

Speakers

Jason Cooper

Onsite contact: Jason Coooper

Jason Cooper is the creator and owner of SmarterMarks, a tool that helps teachers and students do more with paper and online assessments. Before making the switch to supporting and developing SmarterMarks full-time, he worked as a high school science teacher in Calgary for 9 year... Read More →

Laura Pankratz

Western Canada Teacher Network Coordinator, Perimeter Institute

Laura Pankratz is an educator with more than 30 years of working with students and teachers. One of her principles of education is the learning is messy. Her passion is finding the nugget of value in that mess and then helping the learner to build around it. Laura’s career included... Read More →

Thursday February 27, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am MST
Centre High - Room 308 Centre High

Biology/Physics/Chemistry/Science, Mathematics

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10:20am MST

Using Data to Build Better Assessments

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

Centre High - Room 308

So, you have just finished scoring your students’ tests. You have a bunch of data! What do you do with that data? This workshop will explore some key tools for interpreting assessment data and discuss how they can be used to build assessments that are fair, reflect a range of student understanding, and provide meaningful feedback to students. The facilitators, Jason Cooper and Laura Pankratz, have decades of classroom and assessment experience. Participants in this workshop will engage in discussion and exploration of what is currently working in Alberta classrooms.

Speakers

Jason Cooper

Onsite contact: Jason Coooper

Laura Pankratz

Western Canada Teacher Network Coordinator, Perimeter Institute

Thursday February 27, 2025 10:20am - 11:20am MST
Centre High - Room 308 Centre High

Biology/Physics/Chemistry/Science, Mathematics

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1:00pm MST

Making the Most of Outcomes in Assessment

Thursday February 27, 2025 1:00pm - 2:00pm MST

Centre High - Room 308

You are a great teacher! You engage your students in rich learning tasks, and your students are successfully learning. How do you make sure your assessments reflect the breadth of student learning, and that feedback to students, parents and school administration helps them make informed choices moving forward? Blueprinting assessments (and class time) can help you. This workshop will explore the ideas of intentionally addressing mandated curriculum outcomes and cognitive load through blueprinting. The facilitators, Jason Cooper and Laura Pankratz, have decades of classroom and assessment experience. Participants in this workshop will engage in discussion and exploration of what is currently working in Alberta classrooms.

Speakers

Jason Cooper

Onsite contact: Jason Coooper

Laura Pankratz

Western Canada Teacher Network Coordinator, Perimeter Institute

Thursday February 27, 2025 1:00pm - 2:00pm MST
Centre High - Room 308 Centre High

Biology/Physics/Chemistry/Science, Mathematics

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2:20pm MST

You are the economy: Your crash course to incorporating economic thinking

Thursday February 27, 2025 2:20pm - 3:20pm MST

Centre High - Room 308

Economics is for everyone! Join the Bank of Canada Museum to walk you through a new set of six lesson plans and try them out for yourself. The activities include budgeting simulations, economic comic strips, charts and graphs on the Canadian economy, a data tool to explore immigration and trade, investing debates and more. This workshop will build up your own comfort level in teaching economic concepts in middle to high school social studies, geography, financial literacy and economics.

Speakers

Adam Young

Education Specialist, Bank of Canada Museum

Adam works in education and evaluation at the Bank of Canada Museum. He has created many resources for students and teachers to help demystify the economy. This includes lessons and activities on economics 101, decoding data, Canadian industries, the green economy and money math... Read More →

Thursday February 27, 2025 2:20pm - 3:20pm MST
Centre High - Room 308 Centre High

Social Studies, CALM/Health/Life Skills

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