Ethan McAlpin’s Blog Posts for ECS 203.
Video Link In this blog, I reflect on my experience in ECS 203. I talk about what I learned and came to understand my approach as a future educator. My first blog had almost no knowledge of the curriculum process or what pedagogy was. The best came to be blog Read more…
Today’s blog consists of different learning and how limiting students to a singular path is not correct. The Inuit are shown to challenge eurocentric learning, especially in terms so mathematics. In correlation to the articles presented, there are two questions for this blog: Part 1: At the beginning of the Read more…
This week I have been asked the following questions: “How can teachers maximize engagement among multilingual students?” and “What are some effective ways to integrate multilingual instructional strategies into classrooms?” Cummins (2019) says that using different languages from students in the classroom helps engage students from the multilingual background. This Read more…
This week, I have been asked to answer the following questions: How might we begin to address the ways in which the systems that we teach our curriculum in are intrinsically homophobic, transphobic, biphobic and oppressive towards queer and trans people? To begin addressing the issues, individuals should look at Read more…
What should be realized is that, from a colonized individual or person of colonial descent, the stereotypes, racism, and perceived ideas about Indigenous ways of life, language, and culture, are a condition of the settler colonialism agenda. This all largely started with treaties, which is why Treaty Education is so Read more…
In today’s blog, I clarify my vision for my future classroom. More specifically, I was asked how my classroom will look, sound, and feel in terms of culturally relevant pedagogy, and how can I build a sense of place for my future students. My future classroom will be respectful of Read more…
Today’s reading covers topics of critical pedagogy and hip-hop pedagogy. In particular, it uses hip-hop to form a basis for students to analyze and comprehend issues. These may be historical, but they would be prominently current to grasp students’ attention. But more specifically, how can hip-hop be used to help Read more…
In recent discussions, we have focused on citizenship. This has furthered my understanding of Treaty Education, and it truly brings new valid points to the conversation of Treaties and the idea of citizenship. To start my new journey, I have had to consider what my understanding of citizenship is. I Read more…
According to Levin’s (2008) article, the curriculum is developed from the input of many people and can include experts in fields, teachers, politicians, ministers of education, and voters. For implementation, Levin explains that there have been studies about the implementation of policies, but they try to not think about implementation Read more…
What does it mean to be a good student? There are many answers to this question, but what is the true standard of good students that society has set, and how has history impacted the idea of a good student? As well, who benefits from these good student standards? So, Read more…