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Thursday, February 22 • 10:30 - 12:00
NEW SESSION: Builders & Storytellers: Teaching in the 21st Century

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Ours is a species of builders. Since our evolutionary ancestors tamed fire and fashioned the first stone tools, humanity has been driven to construct increasingly elaborate and ingenious solutions to meet its needs and address its problems. Simply put, ‘we were made to make’. But we shouldn’t forget that we are also a species of storytellers. If we were to trace any one of our collective accomplishments back to its point of inception, almost immediately we would find a group of individuals gathered around a campfire, a meal, or a drawing on the wall talking. In this presentation, the ATA’s expert on innovative learning spaces will explain how you can tap into your inner builder and storyteller to bring curricula to life in your classrooms. In this time of significant change, meaningful teaching may not require the latest technogadgetry, but may draw instead on our ancestral urges to build stuff out of sticks and talk about it.
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Dan Grassick

Executive Staff Officer, Professional Development, Alberta Teachers' Association
Dan Grassick (they/them) is Executive Staff Officer in the Alberta Teachers’ Association Professional Development program area where their main responsibilities include supporting the Association's specialist councils and teachers’ conventions, and working with teacher education... Read More →

Thursday February 22, 2018 10:30 - 12:00 MST
AH 175 Anderson Hall, University of Lethbridge, 4401 University Drive, Lethbridge, Alberta T1K 3M4
  Curriculum & Pedagogy, Gr 10-12, Gr 4-6, Gr 7-9, K-Gr 3 |   Language Arts, Gr 10-12, Gr 4-6, Gr 7-9, K-Gr 3 |   Leadership, Gr 10-12, Gr 4-6, Gr 7-9, K-Gr 3 |   Math, Gr 10-12, Gr 4-6, Gr 7-9, K-Gr 3 |   Professional Issues, Gr 10-12, Gr 4-6, Gr 7-9, K-Gr 3 |   Science, Gr 10-12, Gr 4-6, Gr 7-9, K-Gr 3 |   Social Studies, Gr 10-12, Gr 4-6, Gr 7-9, K-Gr 3