Learning Summary ECS 203
Blog Post Week 6
From this article, I saw three main ways in which Inuit math challenges Eurocentric ideas. This includes math and language, teaching methods, and math-related to culture. Inuit children are taught math in their own language until grade three. This encourages students to use their cultural language and be fluent in it. I would rather see the students continue to learn math in their own language their entire careers as students as it continues to keep the language and the culture…
Week 5 Blog Post
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, and Inuit peoples? We must teach Treaty Education to all students, as it is a part of Canada’s history. Treaty Education has been avoided for a long time in Canadian schools. There is a lot of shame in what happened to Indigenous people when Treaties were made, and even now, we…
Blog Post May 31st 2023
There are three different learning theories talked about in the article. The first learning theory is behaviourism. The second is cognitivism. Lastly, there is constructivism. Behaviourism focuses on the idea that behaviours are learned. These can be observed and measured. The environment can influence this behaviour. This includes students paying attention to who gets praise and what they did to get that praise. This is related to the product curriculum model. I have seen this in my pre-internship, where at…
Blog Post May 24th 2023
Curriculum Policy and The Politics Of What Should Be Learned In Schools According to the Levin article, how are school curricula developed and implemented? What new information/perspectives does this reading provide about the development and implementation of the school curriculum? Is there anything that surprises you or maybe that concerns you? Curricula are developed and implemented by the government. This means there is little input from the public or the teachers teaching said curriculum. I personally think that the government…
Blog Post May 3rd 2023
The Problem of Common Sense. Common sense to Kumashiro is about assumptions, beliefs, and values that are such a part of our culture that they are not questioned by the people who think it is the norm. However, what we may consider normal and common sense may not be to someone else who hasn’t lived your normal. It is essential to pay attention to the use of “common sense” because we get caught up in our own opinions and ideals…
Blog Post May 10th 2023
Against Common Sense At the beginning of the article, we hear about students who are only sometimes on task or those who question your teaching methods and content. Typically we would not see these students as being well-behaved or good. This is the opposite in the article as it says the good is not in the idea of behaviour, but rather the good is that they ask questions and explore. The privileged students are the ones who are learning different…
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