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!!

IMPORTANT REMINDER:
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

Making Fun of Building Fluency: Addition and Subtraction

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

TH201

A session of learning games to help student build fluency and number sense in their math basic addition and subtraction facts.

SESSION HOST: Nicole Hammell

Speakers

Alan Riewe

I am a teacher with the heart of a game show host. My degree is in high school Social Studies but somehow my passion became elementary math. I am a teacher willing to share anything I have or create I just want kids to learn I don’t care if they are mine or someone else’s.

Thursday February 20, 2025 10:30am - 12:00pm MST
TH201

Mathematics (TQS 3), K-Gr 3, Gr 4-6

12:30pm MST

Making fun of building fluency: Multiplication, Division, Fractions and Decimals.

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

TH201

A session of learning games to help student build fluency and number sense in their Multiplication, Division, Fractions and Decimals.

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

Speakers

Alan Riewe

Thursday February 20, 2025 12:30pm - 2:00pm MST
TH201

Mathematics (TQS 3), Gr 4-6

2:30pm MST

I Don't Know What To Do and I Don't Know Where To Start!

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

TH201

This session will focus on my journey to incorporate Indigenous ways of knowing into the science curriculum. I hope to help other teachers take their first step in their journey of reconcili-action.

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

Speakers

Clarke Dyer

Winner of the 2022 Earth Steward Teaching Award, Clarke started his teaching career in 2008 after graduating from the University of Alberta with a major in Biology and majorly awesome wife. While teaching at Victoria School, Clarke has worked to develop the school landscape into... Read More →

Thursday February 20, 2025 2:30pm - 4:00pm MST
TH201

Indigenous Education (TQS/LQS 5), K-Gr3, Gr 4-6, Gr 7-9, Gr 10-12 | Science (TQS 3), K-Gr3, Gr 4-6, Gr 7-9, Gr 10-12