| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Thursday, August 29, 2019 | 9:00 AM - 3:30 PM | Fox Lake Elementary School |
| Friday, August 30, 2019 | 9:00 AM - 3:30 PM | John D'or Prairie School |
Little Red River Board of Education' Educational Assistant's Conference 2019
KeyNote Speaker: Sarah McKay
Sarah’s keynote will address strategies for staff to support at-risk students and improve their academic success, social-emotional health and self-regulating behaviours. Building system capacity to address trauma-impacted students is an essential element needed to create positive learning cultures.
Sarah McKay's Breakout Sessions:
Effective Approaches to Address Complex Situations
This session will assist Educational Assistants to know what interventions are needed based on specific circumstances. With her experience and research, Sarah is able to bring recommendations on classroom layout, accessible resources, communication strategies, and case studies from concrete examples outlining the intentional response to behaviour challenges and individual student needs
Lynn Page-Scott's Breakout Sessions:
Coaching Students Without Giving the Answers
Knowing how to assist students who are struggling is a constant challenge in the classroom. It is difficult to know how to scaffold instruction or break it down into manageable learning bits. We often ask ourselves "How can I help without giving the answers?" In this session, learn some tried and true instructional brain compatible techniques to try and some scaffolding strategies that work.