Thinking back on my experiences with math in school, most of them are not very positive because of the school I was attending and the multiple grades in the classroom. Math was a difficult subject for me because we often had to learn from the textbook and that was tough for me to do. I also had the same math…

I never really thought about the way I “read the world” or what lenses I bring to the classroom but after reading the article, I realize how the lenses of teachers can really affect student’s education. My schooling and upbringing have shaped how I read the classroom because I only have a small town, multi-grade classroom experience which is far…

The types of citizenship focused on this week in lecture and in the article was personally responsible citizen which describes a citizen who will make a good person to function well in society, to maintain their position in society and not stand out. Participatory citizen is describing as someone who goes beyond maintaining their position in society to help create…

As I read through and listened to the resources provided for this blog, I came across lots of new perspectives on Treaty Education and many great ways to implement Indigenous knowledge into the classroom. The article and videos provided are great resources to provide not just new teachers but all teachers, the Treaty Education curriculum is also a great resource…

After reading Levin’s article about the development of a curriculum, I have a better understanding for how the curriculum is created which is by a process starting with a policy. A group or a person presents a policy then if the policy is supposed to be implemented into the curriculum, it gets reviewed or created by a team of experts.…

Throughout this experiment there is examples of reinhabitation and decolonization but I think what is most important about this article is that there was a connection between a community, there was learning and teaching from community members and elders to Indigenous youth. There was a rekindling of connection to the river which is being slowly lost through decolonization. The elders…

The phrase, “they are a good student” has remained the same for many decades now, this phrase includes doing well on standardize testing, understanding how to read, write, and work through arithmetic. This also includes having polite manners, listening to teachers, acting appropriate in all situations and being able to complete all the outcomes that the teacher is wanting the…

The article, Preparations for the Duties of life: Women Reformers and the Functional Curriculum, 1893-1918, written by Christine Woyshner in 2004 explored a movement for all women in education. Womens clubs in the early 1900s sparked a change in the curriculum for women, to feminize the school curriculum so it fit the needs for women. Although this was a different…

The Tyler Rationale theory of curriculum greatly affected my elementary schooling because of attending a school in such a small rural community. The four questions his theory was based around are, “What educational purposes should the school seek to attain? What educational experiences can be provided that are likely to attain these purposes? How can these educational experiences be effectively…

Kumashiro defines common sense by relating it back to what we already know, common senses is the knowledge we carry by what we learn from our past or past generations. So, in reference to the school system and learning, we think classrooms should be run in different ways and doing different activities because that is what we know from our…