Category: ECS 203
The Single Story
How has your upbringing/schooling shaped how you “read the world?” What biases and lenses do you bring to the classroom? How might we unlearn / work against these biases? Throughout high school especially, we read books that are considered “classics.”…
Understanding Numeracy
At the beginning of the reading, Leroy Little Bear (2000) states that colonialism “tries to maintain a singular social order by means of force and law, suppressing the diversity of human worldviews. … Typically, this proposition creates oppression and discrimination”…
Teaching Treaty Education
What is the purpose of teaching Treaty Ed (specifically) or First Nations, Metis, and Inuit (FNMI) Content and Perspectives (generally) where there are few or no First Nations, Metis, Inuit peoples? As a future teacher, it is so important to…
Approaches to Unit Planning
What will culturally relevant pedagogy look like, sound like, feel like, in your future classroom? In order to create a learning environment that is culturally relevant, one must be critically aware and agentive in classrooms, drawing on relevant socio-cultural theories…
Critical Hip Hop Pedagogy as a Form of Liberatory Praxis
How can hip hop be used as a tool to promote social justice and youth activism in the classroom? What is the relationship between hip hop culture and the development of critical consciousness amongst students? Within A. A. Akom’s article,…
What Should Be Learned in Schools?
Curriculum Policy: “Every education policy decision can be seen as being, in some sense, a political decision” (Levin, 8). Although this makes sense now, in elementary and high school I had never considered that the education I received had been…
Painter and Kumashiro: The Good Student
The “Good Student” Painter’s reading, “A History of Education,” discusses that the commonsense of being a “good student” is complete human development and to exemplify Christ. According to Painter, the learner must have a “healthy body, a clear and well-informed…
Gender and the Curriculum: Supporting Trans Youth in Education
The authors of this article, Jen Gilbert and Julia Sinclair-Palm, highlight the challenges of trans students, the lack of trans representation in the education system, and the ways in which educators can create safe environments for trans students. Trans students…
The Tyler Rationale
I have been a student for over thirteen years and I have seen the Tyler rationale be implemented in all classrooms and evident in the educator’s teaching style. The Tyler rationale emphasizes heavily on the end goals of the class.…