This Friday marks the 12th year in a row that we've come together at the cabin-sized "Purden Lake Conference Centre" to connect the local to the global, get warm by the fire, and move Social Studies education an inch closer to some place it has never been before.
On the grill for discussion topics:
On the grill for discussion topics:
- Consolidating our resources for Indigenous Residential Schools -- the Lejac Case Study.
- An explanation from Rob on how he understands the triangulation approach to assessment (as presented by Sandra Herbst) and what the implications might be for local social studies teachers.
- A "critical friends" look at how teacher education programs can anticipate problems of practice that occur in teachers' first five years of practice.