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

10:30am MST

Boosting Problem Solving Skills in High School Math using Critical Thinking Tasks

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

L1170B

This interactive session will explore strategies and resources for developing, executing and assessing thinking tasks in high school mathematics.

SESSION HOST: Gibion Makiwa

Speakers

Deanna Sample

Teacher

Deanna Sample and Jamel Sayyad are both teachers at Winston Churchill High School in Lethbridge. They are both passionate about giving students opportunities for hands-on learning, valuing the learning process, and engaging students in mathematical critical thinking.

Jamel Sayyad

Thursday February 20, 2025 10:30am - 12:00pm MST
L1170B

Curriculum & Pedagogy (TQS 3), Gr 7-9, Gr 10-12 | Mathematics (TQS 3), Gr 7-9, Gr 10-12

12:30pm MST

Promoting Metacognition and Learning Through Visual Journaling

Thursday February 20, 2025 12:30pm - 3:30pm MST

L1170B

Students learn best by utilizing metacognitive strategies. This session will have attendees learn how to make their own hand-stitched journals and apply metacognitive strategies within their learning spaces.

SESSION HOST: Jenni Rolfson

Speakers

Darrin Wilson

Darrin has worked within the CBE since 2008, focusing mostly on teaching English language arts and visual arts to middle school students. He is the Art Representative for the ATA’s Fine Arts Council.

Thursday February 20, 2025 12:30pm - 3:30pm MST
L1170B

Art (TQS 3), K-Gr 3, Gr 4-6, Gr 7-9, Gr 10-12 | Educational Research (TQS/LQS 2), K-Gr 3, Gr 4-6, Gr 7-9, Gr 10-12 | Language Arts (TQS 3), K-Gr 3, Gr 4-6, Gr 7-9, Gr 10-12

10:30am MST

Laugh Out Loud Literary Devices

Friday February 21, 2025 10:30am - 12:00pm MST

L1170B

This workshop will hit the funny bone of disengaged students with laugh out loud examples of personification, simile, metaphor, hyperbole, and more!

SESSION HOST: Jenni Rolfson

Speakers

Miranda Krogstad

Krogstad is a spoken word poet and educator whose words have empowered students in dozens of cities across Western Canada and beyond. Outside of the classroom, she is a 2-time Canada Council for the Arts grant recipient, a Calgary Arts Development grant recipient, a 2016 national... Read More →

Friday February 21, 2025 10:30am - 12:00pm MST
L1170B

Language Arts (TQS 3), Gr 4-6, Gr 7-9, Gr 10-12

12:30pm MST

Speak Up: Performance Activities to Build Your Students’ Confidence

Friday February 21, 2025 12:30pm - 2:00pm MST

L1170B

To encourage speaking up in any class, this workshop will give you some warm-up activities and techniques that will help your students tiptoe towards the front of the class, increasing comfort and community.

SESSION HOST: Laura Pearce

Speakers

Miranda Krogstad

Friday February 21, 2025 12:30pm - 2:00pm MST
L1170B

Language Arts (TQS 3), Gr 7-9, Gr 10-12