Experiential Learning For Students
No buses. No permission slip headaches. Just authentic, hands-on learning and embedded professional development. Learning for students and you!
What Are Assessment Experiences?
Looking for meaningful ways to engage students while assessing the new curriculum? Assessment Experiences move learning beyond paper-and-pencil tasks into real-world explorations within your own community.
Each experience combines immersive student learning with job-embedded professional development for teachers.
Please Note: Most experiences take place outdoors. Students should come dressed for the weather and be prepared to spend extended periods outside.
Social Studies
- Time and Place: Exploring the dynamic relationships between people, place, and time supports understanding of perspectives and events to make meaning of the world.
Cross Curricular Connections
- Science Earth Systems: Understandings of the living world, Earth, and space are deepened by investigating natural systems and their interactions.
- Math Time: Duration is described and quantified by time.
Math
- Measurement: Attributes such as length, area, volume, and angle are quantified by measurement
Cross Curricular Connections
- Science: Matter: Understandings of the physical world are deepened by investigating matter and energy.
- Science: Living Systems: Understandings of the living world, Earth, and space are deepened by investigating natural systems and their interactions.
- Science: Energy: Understandings of the physical world are deepened by investigating matter and energy.
- ELAL: Text Forms and Structures: Identifying and applying text forms and structures improves understanding of content, literary style, and our rich language traditions
- ELAL: Oral Language: Listening and speaking form the foundation for literacy development and improve communication, collaboration, and respectful mutual understanding.
Each booking includes:
1 Hour of Pre-Coaching
A virtual planning session between the classroom teacher and an AAC Learning Designer to co-develop assessment tools tailored to your students, curriculum outcomes, and context.
3 Hours of Experiential Learning
An AAC learning Designer will facilitate an immersive cross curriculum learning experience. Sessions are student-centered and include active exploration, observation, discussion, and reflection. All Learning Designers are experienced teachers with a minimum of 5 years classroom experience.
1 Hour of Post-Coaching
A follow-up meeting between the classroom teacher and an AAC Learning Designer to reflect on student learning, answer questions, and plan next instructional steps.
Why Choose Assessment Experiences?
For Classroom Teachers (K–6)
Discover manageable, engaging approaches to the new curriculum that support diverse learners and make assessment more manageable and meaningful.
For School Leaders
Invest in professional learning that strengthens teacher practice while increasing student engagement and success.
For Students
Students demonstrate what they know through authentic, hands-on experiences designed using UDL principles to support and include all learners.
Pricing & Details
Price per 3 hour in person experience: 15$ per student. 300$ minimum.
Included: Two hours of professional learning (pre- and post-coaching) are fully covered through your AAC membership.
Travel Costs: Contact us for details regarding travel to your school.
Questions? Reach out to us at info@aac.ab.ca for more information.
“Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children, play is learning. Play is the work of childhood.”
— Fred Rogers
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