CATCA 2025: Full Schedule

9:00am MST

Place Value is More Than Numbers in a Column!

Thursday February 20, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am MST

How do you really know what your students understand about Place Value? It is such an important concept that we spend time developing over a child's education. This session will look at what the key aspects of place value are and how ALL 6 need to be mastered for us to claim our students KNOW Place Value. We will work alongside manipulatives and examples to highlight the aspects and share an assessment tool that you can use with your students to check for understanding. Get ready to roll up your sleeves!

Speakers

Chris Zarski

Designer of Professional Learning, ARPDC

Chris is an Educational Consultant supporting Alberta teachers as a Designer of Professional Learning with the Alberta Provincial Learning Consortium (APLC). She has served as a Teacher, Administrator, Curriculum Director of Curriculum, Examiner with Alberta Education, and Author... Read More →

Thursday February 20, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am MST
RDP Room 2302

Mathematics (TQS 3), Division 2 (Gr 4-6), Division 3 (Gr 7-9) | Assessment (TQS 3), Division 2 (Gr 4-6), Division 3 (Gr 7-9)

10:20am MST

What Should Every Junior High Teacher Know About the New Grades 4-6 Math Curriculum?

Thursday February 20, 2025 10:20am - 11:20am MST

RDP Room 2302

So, you aren’t teaching a new curriculum yet but what have Grades 4-6 students learned that you already do? How might that change what a current 7 or 8 classroom could look like? Come join a fast paced session on what’s new - old and somewhere in-between. Try some of the manipulatives that students will be familiar with - how might you implement these in your class now? How might assessment look different? Put your track shoes on and join in the exploration.
Participants will receive access to support documents outlining the changes.

Speakers

Chris Zarski

Designer of Professional Learning, ARPDC

Thursday February 20, 2025 10:20am - 11:20am MST
RDP Room 2302

Mathematics (TQS 3), Division 3 (Gr 7-9)

11:40am MST

Games Aren't Just for the Young - They Teach!

Thursday February 20, 2025 11:40am - 12:40pm MST

RDP Room 2302

Getting students excited about their learning and engaging them are great stepping stones to having them deepen their own learning. A well crafted engagement activity can serve as a replacement for the traditional set of questions in a textbook. Your presenters both taught PAT/DIP courses so we understand the value of time and the pressures of getting through it all! Come join us as we share some activities that you can take back and implement in your own classrooms.

Speakers

Chris Zarski

Designer of Professional Learning, ARPDC

Candace Ketsa

Thursday February 20, 2025 11:40am - 12:40pm MST
RDP Room 2302

Mathematics (TQS 3), Division 4 (Gr 10-12)

1:00pm MST

GeoBoards, Time and Fractions - What the Heck Do These Have in Common???

Thursday February 20, 2025 1:00pm - 2:00pm MST

RDP Room 2302

Just keep rolling up those sleeves and dive in one more time to see how the manipulatives of GeoBoards and Time can connect together. How will we tie fractions into this? Join us and find out!

Speakers

Chris Zarski

Designer of Professional Learning, ARPDC

Candace Ketsa

Thursday February 20, 2025 1:00pm - 2:00pm MST
RDP Room 2302

Curriculum & Pedagogy (TQS 3), Division 1 (Gr 1-3), Division 2 (Gr 4-6), Division 3 (Gr 7-9) | Mathematics (TQS 3), Division 1 (Gr 1-3), Division 2 (Gr 4-6), Division 3 (Gr 7-9)

2:20pm MST

Running an esports option class

Thursday February 20, 2025 2:20pm - 3:20pm MST

RDP Room 2302

Over the past two years I have ran an esports option class, where there have been several bumps along the way. During this session I will share some of the things that have worked and some of the things that have failed.

Speakers

Michael Saretzky

Teacher

I am currently a teacher with Red Deer Catholic, teaching grade 8. I have been teaching for almost 20 years, with stops in Fox Creek and Hinton. I have recently completed my Masters in Educational Technology, through UBC. More recently I have delved into the world of esports in the... Read More →

Thursday February 20, 2025 2:20pm - 3:20pm MST
RDP Room 2302

Career & Technology Studies/Foundations (TQS 3), Division 4 (Gr 10-12), Division 3 (Gr 7-9), Division 2 (Gr 4-6) | Technology (TQS/LQS 2), Division 4 (Gr 10-12), Division 3 (Gr 7-9), Division 2 (Gr 4-6)

9:00am MST

Math Vocabulary - What Exactly is the Correct Term in Our New Math Grades 7-10?

Friday February 21, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am MST

RDP Room 2302

So many of the terms we use each day in mathematics classes are the very concepts we want our students to learn and make connections with. Using the appropriate terminology can provide clarity and consistency. Do your grade partners use the same language as you? Would students entering different math classrooms in your school hear the same language? Come and check out some of the math terminology we have for you to engage with.

Speakers

Chris Zarski

Designer of Professional Learning, ARPDC

Friday February 21, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am MST
RDP Room 2302

Mathematics (TQS 3), Division 3 (Gr 7-9), Division 4 (Gr 10-12)

10:20am MST

Math Vocabulary - What Exactly is the Correct Term in Our New Math Grades 4-6?

Friday February 21, 2025 10:20am - 11:20am MST

RDP Room 2302

Speakers

Chris Zarski

Designer of Professional Learning, ARPDC

Friday February 21, 2025 10:20am - 11:20am MST
RDP Room 2302

Mathematics (TQS 3), Division 2 (Gr 4-6)

11:40am MST

All Aboard for Algebra!

Friday February 21, 2025 11:40am - 12:40pm MST

RDP Room 2302

Many of the Algebraic concepts that lived in junior high are now seen by and are engaging Division 2 students. Roll up your sleeves, one more time and dive into the manipulatives that can help us engage our learners in these algebraic concepts. Knowing ‘why’ we do what we do in algebra is very important to students making those valuable connections.

Speakers

Chris Zarski

Designer of Professional Learning, ARPDC

Friday February 21, 2025 11:40am - 12:40pm MST
RDP Room 2302

Mathematics (TQS 3), Division 2 (Gr 4-6), Division 3 (Gr 7-9) | Curriculum & Pedagogy (TQS 3), Division 2 (Gr 4-6), Division 3 (Gr 7-9)

1:00pm MST

Case Studies and More! Unpacking Concepts in the New Science Curriculum

Friday February 21, 2025 1:00pm - 2:00pm MST

RDP Room 2302

How do we engage students in learning all the new concepts in their science curriculum? Learning e terms and their definitions is always a starting point but it's just surface level learning. This session will look at ways that we can ask our students to become independent thinkers and start to draw connections between what they know and where we need them to go. Participants will take part in several interactive activities that they can adapt to their own student levels and use within the classroom. Yup, another roll up your sleeve event!

Speakers

Ted Zarowny

Ted’s educational journey has taken him through three provinces. He began his career as a classroom teacher in Saskatchewan, and spent many years in British Columbia on the North Coast and in the interior as a teacher and principal. He returned to the prairies to a principalship... Read More →

Chris Zarski

Designer of Professional Learning, ARPDC

Friday February 21, 2025 1:00pm - 2:00pm MST
RDP Room 2302

Science (TQS 3), Division 1 (Gr 1-3), Division 2 (Gr 4-6) | Curriculum & Pedagogy (TQS 3), Division 1 (Gr 1-3), Division 2 (Gr 4-6)