GETCA 2025: Full Schedule

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

11:40am MST

Thursday February 27, 2025 11:40am - 12:40pm MST

Global crisis’, rights and equity issues are entering, and sometimes disrupting, classrooms within increasing frequency, leaving both students and educators feeling overwhelmed and hopeless. In this hands-on session, participants will explore approaches and lessons that create environments where they can explore complex topics and equip students with tools to address injustice. Participants will also examine how classroom culture, courage to engage in complex conversations and project-based learning, can be used together to help students find hope and equip them with skills to take action. Spend a half day with us learning how to invigorate your teaching and knowledge surrounding human rights in the classroom. Register to save your spot in this hands-on experience with staff from the Canadian Museum for Human Rights!

Speakers

Sarah Adomako-Ansah

Canadian Human Rights Museum / Edmonton Catholic Teachers Local No 54

Sarah Adomako-Ansah is a graduate of the University of Alberta, B. Ed (’13). She is a former teacher with the Edmonton Catholic School Division, teaching grades three through six from 2013 until 2021. She was the Division’s first Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Anti-Racism Consultant... Read More →

Thursday February 27, 2025 11:40am - 12:40pm MST
Westin - Devonian Westin Hotel

Diversity/Equity/Anti-racism, Indigenous

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1:00pm MST

Early career MADNESS? 10 Ways to Make Things Easier Starting Monday

Thursday February 27, 2025 1:00pm - 3:40pm MST

Westin - Devonian

Early career MADNESS? 10 Ways to Make Things Easier Starting Monday No matter how excellent your Education professors were, there’s no way they could get you ready for all the unending demands of being a teacher. Every teacher who does survive (!) the first few years of the job has to be lucky: the right school, the right colleagues, the right resources, and the right guidance. But what if you aren’t lucky enough to be lucky? What if you could really use some help right now so the rest of this year, and all of next year (and the years after that) feel 25%, 50% or even 100% better? Join ten-year veteran teacher and now educational consultant Malcolm Azania for a lively interactive session to learn (and even innovate upon) ten strategies for making your job easier so you can help your students succeed and become the teacher you want to be without working 50 hours per day!

Speakers

Malcolm Azania

President, Project Saqqara

Having taught English in Edmonton high schools and junior high schools for a decade, Malcolm Azania is an award-winning novelist, award-winning print journalist, radio host-producer, television host and associate producer, sketch comedy writer, video game writer, poet, and community... Read More →

Thursday February 27, 2025 1:00pm - 3:40pm MST
Westin - Devonian Westin Hotel

Classroom Management, Retirement/New Teachers

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9:00am MST

Calculus with an Advanced Placement Focus #3

Friday February 28, 2025 9:00am - 11:20am MST

Westin - Devonian

There would be 4 half day sessions. Session #3: Tips for Using TI Technology in Calculus In this presentation participants will investigate often under-utilized features of the TI-84 graphing calculator. These built-in functions, special tns files, and apps will be discussed in the context of AP Calculus style problems and in discovering concepts where applicable.

Friday February 28, 2025 9:00am - 11:20am MST
Westin - Devonian Westin Hotel

Mathematics, Mathematics

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1:00pm MST

Calculus with an Advanced Placement Focus #4

Friday February 28, 2025 1:00pm - 3:20pm MST

Westin - Devonian

There would be 4 half day sessions. Session #4: Scoring Guidelines: 2024 AP Calculus Exam This presentation will focus on the published scoring guidelines for the Free Response Questions in the 2024 AP Calculus Exam. We will discuss interpretations of the guidelines associated with specific parts or each problem, the relevant calculus concepts, and more detailed solutions where applicable.

Friday February 28, 2025 1:00pm - 3:20pm MST
Westin - Devonian Westin Hotel

Mathematics, Mathematics

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Room Details Westin - Devonian (Westin Hotel, Tables Max capacity for 180 people)
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