"Everything Education" Your B.Ed Program Blog @ Lakehead University

A blog to help you navigate "All Things Education" as you prepare for and complete the B.Ed Professional Program experience @ Lakehead University in Orillia. This blog centralizes all internal (and campus specific) communications circulated throughout the year. Check this blog frequently for relevant instruction, information and updates that will assist you in your academic journey! Can't find the information you need? The Lakehead University website should always be the first place you look.

Monday, November 2, 2020

Reminder - M.Ed Information Session - Nov 4th, 2020

Are you interested in pursuing your M.Ed degree at Lakehead? Are you curious about program offerings, specializations, and study routes? We will be hosting an information session for all Thunder Bay and Orillia students interested in commencing the Master of Education program in 2021. Information Details can be found below.

Date: Wed. Nov. 4, 2020

Time: 11:00am-12:30pm

Hosts: Drs. Meridith Lovell Johnston & Sonia Mastrangelo

**For the Zoom link, please refer to the email (with the same title) that Julie Howell circulated on October 8th, 2020.

Monday, October 26, 2020

OTF Connects - Webinar Series: Using Math Moments to Multiply Math Skills

If you cannot attend the webinars, you will be able to view the sessions once they are archived on the PTF website – usually one or two days later. There are no certificates for participating.

OTF Connects is back in November and December

OTF Connects is back
in November and December

Our easy-to-use Zoom platform provides you with free, effective professional learning accessible–from a distance–across multiple types of devices. You will leave each session with strategies and tools you can transfer to your own distance learning context.

Following is the first set of webinars, Using Math Moments to Multiply Math Skills, a series of 10 webinars. You can sign up for any or all of them.

Watch for more webinars in the near future.

Using Math Moments to Multiply Math Skills

When you ask adults how they feel about mathematics, the response is often negative. Ask this same question to many educators and the response is often very similar. Given that mathematics has often been taught with an overemphasis on the memorization of steps and procedures compounded with praise for those who can recall quickly, it is no wonder that we find ourselves in this unfortunate reality. 

Can you imagine a society where the majority of children and adults had a positive disposition towards mathematics much like we have for reading and writing? 

It is possible, but not if we continue to teach using a “procedures first” approach to mathematics. 

Let’s work to repair the many broken relationships with mathematics that exist around us by crafting Math Moments that construct conceptual understanding first and lead to both our students and us being better positioned to generate algorithms to build procedural fluency. 

If you have a broken relationship with mathematics or if you simply want to be able to reach more students by leading problem-based lessons that build conceptual understanding and procedural fluency, this webinar series is for you.

This is a 10-part series focusing on shifting your mindset, number sense (two webinars), relationships and proportional reasoning (five webinars) and measurement (two webinars).

Register now!

OTF Connects calendar

Friday, October 23, 2020

Education Employers - Virtual Career Fair October 26th-30th, 2020

Wednesday, October 21, 2020

Full Hunter’s Moon Scavenger Hunt Event

Wednesday, October 14, 2020

ESTA-O Student Club Message to all B.Ed Professional Program Students

~Forwarding message on behalf of the ESTA-O Student Club~

The Education Student Teachers' Association of Orillia (ESTA-O) is a volunteer-run student club in the Faculty of Education that aims to support you! We are made up of Year 1 and Year 2 students who work to improve your experience as a B.Ed. student.

This year, we are planning virtual events that benefit you (e.g. career-focused workshops, social events, and more.)

Member Updates: To receive updates and be able to join meetings, you must register on Clubs.LUSU.ca.
Link: https://clubs.lusu.ca/Directory/Orillia
(Although only B.Ed. students can join ESTA-O, you need to register first to receive updates.)
Your Input: We would like you to share what programming you'd like to see for this upcoming year.
Please help our team by filling in this short survey. Link: https://forms.gle/xPXcQCWg6se4Rwrr6