ACE Online 2022

Workshop description: Anxiety is not just a trending topic. 15% of young adults present moderate to severe anxiety symptoms, many of them are in our classrooms. How can we support them and facilitate their success.

Workshop description: This workshop provides a better understanding of dyslexia. What is the reality for students with learning disorder (LD)? What is the impact of their LD on their learning process? As a teacher, what can I do to meet the needs of these students? In addition to the theory on dyslexia, time will be given to discuss your concerns, but also strategies that can be implemented in your classrooms.

Workshop description: This workshop is a follow-up to the APC that took place on January 27th, but you don't need to have attended to join us! We look forward to exchanging with you about how we can plan for and track student progress in multi-level/individualized classes.

Workshop description: Thinking about how you might adjust your History content and practices for all learning styles and experiences?  LEARN online resources, in line with the secondary and new adult education history courses, can help you engage your students, explore, use and also interpret events for a variety of situations.  Join us for a quick tour of our student site, access to new templates structured around UDL, and for time to discuss and share with your peers!

Workshop description: The recently translated and adapted tool, Giving Feedback in your LMS, deserves a first and a second look. Join Karine Jacques and Marc from RÉCIT on a virtual tour of this self-directed professional development space.  The discussions will focus on using feedback to both motivate and engage students in their learning. Karine will answer questions relating to different strategies to use with students who have learning particularities. Marc will drive the virtual tour bus while adding a little ed tech know-how and general joviality. It should be a fun ride!

Workshop description: There are a million ways to write a menu, and there are a million ways to teach.  Both require you to think about the person who will interact with what you are presenting.  Both require you to think about the environment, the expectations, the ability, and the desired outcome.  Both require flexibility and adaptation to unexpected situations. This workshop is about exploring how to apply the principles of menu writing when choosing and incorporating teaching strategies.  No need to be a chef!  All teachers curious about teaching strategies will be able to contribute and participate.  At the end of the workshop, each teacher will have a bank of teaching strategies and a working template of how to incorporate them into their trade teaching reality.

Workshop description: Accessibility and inclusion are ideas that many of us strive to achieve in our classrooms and centres. But when we try to define what these ideas actually mean, we might not find common, concrete definitions. Because of this, accessibility and inclusion are often reflected in feel-good activities tacked on to practice instead of a change in how we design material and engage with our learners and colleagues. In this hour, we are going to talk about the idea of exclusion and use that as a starting point for addressing inclusion and accessibility in our practice. This will be an interactive session, based on ideas from the book Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design by Kat Holmes as well as participant experiences. 

Workshop description: This workshop offers a variety of differentiation strategies (environmental, emotional and cognitive) to be used in the classroom. It is presented in a dynamic interactive platform, with some theoretical notions. Participants will be invited to interact throughout.