Fall Conference: Thinking Classrooms: Thinking Citizens
Join us November 1-2, 2019 at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario for our annual conference!
Thinking Classrooms: Thinking Citizens
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Our workshops are as always, hands-on and engaging, and will support your history, politics, economics, law, and social science students. We look forward to seeing you at the conference this year!
Conference Brochure 2019
Thinking Classrooms: Thinking Citizens
November 1-2, 2019
McMaster University Student Centre (CIBC Hall)
This conference is made possible with the generous support of The Collaborative, a McMaster-based project to connect teachers and post-secondary educators in the Social Sciences and Humanities in meaningful ways to support inquiry in the classroom.
Friday, November 1, 2019
4:00 - 6:00 pm - Digital Scholarship and the Maker Space
6:00 - 8:00 pm- Full dinner at the Sherman Centre for Digital Scholarship
Friday Venue:
Sherman Centre for Digital Scholarship in the Mills Memorial Library, 1280 Main St. W., Hamilton, ON L8S 4L6
Saturday, November 2, 2019
7:00 - 9:00 am Registration
7:30 - 9:00 am Breakfast
9:00 - 9:15 am Welcome, Presidential Address & Greetings from Chancellor of McMaster Madame Santee Smith
9:15 - 10:15 am Keynote Speaker- OHASSTA Leadership Award Winner, sponsored by Explorica Cecil Foster
10:15 - 10:45 am Publishers Display/Coffee Break
10:45 - 12:00 WORKSHOP A
12:00 - 1:00 pm Lunch and Skeoch Award Presentation
1:00 to 2:15 pm WORKSHOP B
2:15 to 2:45 pm Publishers Display and Break
2:45 to 4:00 pm WORKSHOP C
4:00 to 4:30 pm Annual General Meeting
Saturday venue: McMaster University Student Centre, CIBC Hall, 3rd floor
Venue Information:
All events will be on campus at McMaster University in Hamilton Ontario. Parking is available in Lots B and C for a flat rate of $8 per day. See McMaster Parking for more information.
McMaster is accessible by GO Bus services from throughout the Greater Toronto Area and from Pearson International Airport.
Conference Registration Fees
Full Conference Price $225 - Includes 3-course meal and special digital scholarship event on Friday evening
Saturday Only $155 - Includes all speakers, workshops, resource fair and breakfast, lunch and afternoon refreshments
Student Teacher $85
Student Teacher 1 day $45
Student Teachers
OHASSTA would like to thank the Faculties of Education for their continued support and encourage student teachers to attend the 2019 conference.
Student teachers will be charged a special reduced fee of $50 that includes attendance at the conference workshops, an OHASSTA student membership, admission to the country's largest publishers' display, (it does not include any meals).
There is a limit of 50 student teachers registered for Saturday, November 2nd.
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President’s message
By Rachel Collishaw
Welcome back to another school year! I have already heard from many of our members who are excited to put their summer learning to work. I am also excited for all of the new relationships that you are going to build with your students and colleagues this year. If we support each other, we can better support our students’ learning. I hope that OHASSTA can be a haven of support and learning for you in what promises to be a challenging school year ahead.
It’s been a busy summer for OHASSTA! We started off with the Wilson Institute Retreat for Teachers in July at McMaster University. Thanks to Mike Clare and John Piper for putting this new event on and taking care of the details. There was a lot of food for thought about teaching and learning of history from both academic and practical perspectives. There was also a lot of time for great meals and conversations and relationship-building!
As your president, I have been continuing to work with The Collaborative, a not-for-profit organization that aims to connect teachers and post-secondary educators through an innovative online platform. The goal is to bring experts in the social sciences into your classroom to support your students’ inquiry. The Collaborative is supporting our fall conference this year in so many ways, and you’ll be able to find out more about how you can get involved in this emerging project at our conference November 1-2 at McMaster University.
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