SWATCA 2025 - South Western Alberta Teachers' Convention: Full Schedule

Welcome to SWATCA 2024 on SCHED!

Here you will find the list of all the great sessions, speaker information, exhibitors and more! Check back here often for information on draws, prize winners, session updates and more!!

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Please ensure that you are completing session evaluations - this helps our SWATCA planning team immensely in preparing for future events! You can evaluate all sessions in the session itself at the bottom of the SCHED. Thank you!

Prize Winners
Goosechase:
Kelsey Schwark and Bryce Wirzba
Katie Walker

Host Draw:
Kara Tarnava

Feedback Draw:
Carla Ferrari
Mark Bergheim

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10:30am MST

Using Senior Citizens to Teach Junior High Health

Thursday February 20, 2025 10:30am - 12:00pm MST

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Come and find out how I used a free resource in my community to teach the Jr. High Health Curriculum. If I can do do it, you can as well!

This session needs a host! To host, complete the form linked here and include your name and the session title in the form.

Speakers

Kevin Sheen

Kevin Sheen has been teaching for 32 years. From working as a supply teaching with Edmonton Public Schools, to working out in East Central Alberta (where you can see a dog leave home for 3 days), he has found himself settled at Matthew Halton High School, for the past 26 years. He... Read More →

Thursday February 20, 2025 10:30am - 12:00pm MST
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CALM (TQS 3), Gr 7-9 | Health & Wellness (TQS 3), Gr 7-9

12:30pm MST

Making Senior High Math Meaningful

Thursday February 20, 2025 12:30pm - 2:00pm MST

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How to make connections in the curricular content between the math courses vertically, connections to other courses horizontally, and what it is that actually makes the math meaningful in high school.

SESSION HOST: Nikki Ohlmann

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Stephanie McKinney

I am originally from New Brunswick, but have spent the majority of my teaching career in Alberta. I am in my 11th year of teaching and first year of administration. The first part of my early career teaching in was spent in Northern Alberta, and I have been with Grasslands Public... Read More →

Thursday February 20, 2025 12:30pm - 2:00pm MST
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Mathematics (TQS 3), Gr 10-12

2:30pm MST

Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics

Thursday February 20, 2025 2:30pm - 4:00pm MST

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Strategies to promote students thinking deeper, collectively and for longer periods of time, as well as focusing on the process of learning rather than the acquisition of knowledge.

SESSION HOST: Tanis Machacek

Speakers

Stephanie McKinney

Thursday February 20, 2025 2:30pm - 4:00pm MST
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Mathematics (TQS 3), K-Gr3, Gr 4-6, Gr 7-9, Gr 10-12