Category: ECS 203

I learned so many important and interesting things over the course of this semester that I could not possibly fit them all in one 5 minute video! So I choose to highlight the topics that had the most impact on me this semester and expand on how they impacted...

In Gale’s lecture, she talks about what mathematics is and how its definition goes far beyond numbers. Mathematics is about quantity, patterns, relationships, shapes and objects, and certainty and uncertainty. Eurocentric ideas of quantity would mean needing an exact number. Gale challenges this view with the idea of filling...

In my early schooling, the single stories of White people were present. We read stories of white, middle-class, heterosexual people, saw them in our textbooks, and studied the things that impacted them in health, social studies, and English. Learning about these stories told me that these were the only...

Dear Struggling Intern, First, I would like to say thank you for pushing to continue to teach Treaty Ed, even when your Coop teacher discourages you. As an educator, it is your responsibility to teach Treaty Education, even if there are no Indigenous students in your classroom. All students...

The three major theories of learning are Behaviorism, Cognitivism, and Constructivism. They were developed in this order, each in response to what came before it. Behaviourism comes from Skinner and Pavlov’s ideas that you can train the brain to get a specific outcome when you use certain inputs. This...

My citizenship education was very much a personally responsible citizen. With every election, we learned how to fill out a ballot and had a school vote. We were never given any information about who the candidates are and what their parties stood for. Often, when asking friends after they...

In the Ministry of Educations document Deepening the Discussion, ways to address homophobic, transphobic, biphobic, and oppressive systems towards queer and transgender people are discussed. Beginning with making sure the school is a safe place for all students, gender-neutral bathrooms and change rooms are necessary, and schools should have...

According to the Levin article, school curricula are primarily developed by the provincial government in consultation with different groups. Often teachers make up the majority, with experts in each area, usually from post-secondary institutions. This group would look at the existing curriculum to find what is working and what...

To be a good student, according to commonsense understandings, you must follow instructions and do things exactly the way the teacher wants them done. You must behave as the teacher expects. As Kimoshiro points out in his chapter M was not a bad student; she did not learn how...

The Tyler rationale is very prevalent in schools. It is the basis for much of the work students do. As Mark Smith, in his article What is curriculum? Exploring theory and practice states, “Objectives are set, a plan drawn up, then applied, and the outcomes (products) measured.” This understanding...