CATCA 2023

Elyse is a dynamic and creative teacher with over 15 years of experience in French Immersion, virtual teaching and as an instructional coach. A passionate learner, she likes to be on the outlook for the latest research and at the forefront of applying theoretical and technological approaches. She loves to create and share her resources. She has also a background in social work and play therapy with expertise in child development and mental health. She is part of the ACPI 5 Star Program where she has the opportunity to coach teachers in their first immersion job. With her colleague Marylou Gammans, they created Académie Gamin. This amalgam is derived from the merging of their two last names Gammans and Morin. Their goal is to share the latest research, best pedagogical practices and develop engaging resources for teachers of all levels!

In this workshop we will provide an overview of the science of reading, and structured literacy in Grade 4-6. We will look at how to teach in a systematic and explicit manner and the basic principles to help our students decipher the "code" by developing an understanding of phoneme-grapheme correspondences. We will also explore how to identify and intervene with struggling students. These are often mistakenly thought to be fluency problems, when in fact they are often related to word acquisition (especially academic/literate language at the 2nd grade level), retention, and comprehension. Time permitting, we will also explore what morphology is, and how to incorporate it into our lessons using strategies, tools and games.

Cet atelier explore le concept de la compétence culturelle grâce auquel vous apprendrez à reconnaitre croyances, attitudes, politiques, structures et pratiques d’enseignement qui permettent aux écoles interculturelles de bien fonctionner. Les participants développeront des capacités qui les amèneront à s’évaluer culturellement et à prendre davantage conscience des dynamiques inhérentes aux interactions interculturelles.

Cet atelier abordera d’abord les grands thèmes liés au bienêtre des enseignants, pour ensuite traiter des défis les plus courants en matière de santé mentale auxquels doivent faire face les enseignants : le stress, l’anxiété et l’épuisement professionnel. La formation comprendra des stratégies pour aider les enseignants à gérer leur bienêtre émotionnel et psychologique de manière à favoriser leur réussite en milieu éducatif.

Do you have sutdent's with speech and langauge delays in your classroom but don't have any ready made, grab and go activites that can be used to really hone in on the skills they need to learn? Then come and check out our hands-on SPEECH & LANGUAGE LEARNING KITS.  These kits are an interactive, multisensory, guided activity that can be used with all your students to work on a multitude of speech and language skills including:

• vocabulary develoment
• understanding directions
• sentence comprehension
• expressive language 
• using language to imagine, problem solve, and story tell
• mastering new speech sounds (articulation skills)• improving social communication skills
• developing early literacy skills
• learning English as an additional langauge

During this session you will:

1. Explore the kits with your own hands and practice using them 
2. Discover how you can use the kits as a one-one, small group, or whole class activity.  
3. Learn how to adapt the kits for students at different levels of communication development
4. Become familiar with the additional teaching supports and extension ideas for each kit
5. Discuss how the kits can be used to teach many of the K-3 Language Arts leaning outcomes

Go to our website (www.communakit.com) for a sneak peek and then get ready to get your hands on some hands-on language learning tools!

This session will go into the basics for research based practices for teaching reading in a French immersion or second language context. We will look at the "Simple View of Reading", first proposed by Gough and Tunmer in 1986, and look at it's implications for teaching reading in a second language context. Next, we will discuss the skills required for skilled reading and strategies for teaching these skills. Finally, we will provide resources in order to help you get started on your Science of Reading journey.

Although this session will be geared towards French immersion teachers, it will provide many strategies for teaching reading in a second language context, relevant to teachers teaching ELL students. The session will be held in English so that it is accessible to all.

Semblable à la formation en secourisme, cet atelier fournit aux enseignants les renseignements de base dont ils ont besoin pour identifier et aider les élèves qui pourraient éprouver des problèmes de santé mentale. Les leçons apprises dans cet atelier ne sont toutefois pas limitées à la salle de classe. En effet, les compétences acquises aideront aussi les enseignants à comprendre les émotions et sentiments que leurs collègues ou eux-mêmes peuvent éprouver parfois. Et les diverses stratégies et interventions pratiques présentées leur permettront de quitter l’atelier mieux armés pour promouvoir une bonne santé mentale.

We will share current research that highlights the importance of oral language in the primary second language classroom. We will share our classroom strategies and approaches for promoting oral language.