Learning Opportunities

Making Sense of Teaching for Conceptual Understanding and Learning Transfer, Foundation Day

Presented By

Julie Stern

Series Sessions

Date Time
Thursday, June 06, 2019 8:45 AM - 3:30 PM

Location

In Person Enmax Centre CWB Lounge 2510 Scenic Drive S, Lethbridge, AB

Innovators don’t invent without a deep understanding of how the world works. With this foundation, they apply conceptual understanding to solve new problems. This workshop provides tools for how to help students uncover conceptual relationships and transfer them to new situations.  

Focus for the Day

  • Investigate the role of conceptual understanding in the retrieval of information, depth of understanding and transfer of learning  
  • Understand that transfer is both a means and an end  
  • Examine the importance of quality thinking and metacognition in the transfer of learning  

Examples from classroom lessons and projects are used to support understanding throughout the session.   

Targeted Outcomes for teachers at the end of the day:   

  • I can compose transferable conceptual relationships and corresponding questions that build both breadth and depth of understanding.   
  • I can build understanding of single concepts and teach students how to make connections between concepts.    
  • I can use multiple, fact-rich contexts that illuminate conceptual relationships.  
  • I can provide opportunities for students to transfer their understanding and provide solutions to problems.   
  • I can teach the language of conceptual learning explicitly to students.   
  • I can make the goals visible using rubrics, success criteria, examples, think-alongs and more.   

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