ECS 203

Canada is  a place that loves to show off its diversity as a country, and today in all classrooms you will find many different students who come from all different places. As an educator it is important to understand that some of your students may be learning the universal language of English and may not […]

The first thing that must be done to ensure we are creating a safe environment for all of our students is to be educated, we must learn and be aware of all of our students and not let something like a lack of knowledge and acceptance be an issue within curriculum and the classroom. For

What will culturally relevant pedagogy look like, sound like, feel like, in your future classroom? What is Culturally relevant pedagogy? Culturally relevant pedagogy focuses on teaching students experiences and point of views of people from different racial groups. It is important that students understand that people of different ethnic backgrounds have different beliefs and ideology’s,

Previously I viewed citizenship as your nationality or the country in which you live in. Now I can see that citizenship is of course much more than that, citizenship also means engagement. Being engaged with your country and even community is part of citizenship. In the lecture we talked about three types of citizenship, each

It shouldn’t surprise one that school curricula is apart of a political agenda, “school curricula are developed and implemented by politicians as a “political decision” (Levin 2).  In our previous lecture we learned that teachers are not as much apart of building curriculum which was a little surprising. In short Ben Levin’s article on Curriculum

What is the commonsense “good” student, the commonsense “good” student is essentially one that follows the rule, or stays on path. If you take Kumashiro’s story about student M for example, he or she was labeled as the “bad” student because he or she did not follow the rules and was a little rouge in

Being an Indigenous student and future educator, the topic of decolonization is one that interests me. While digging around I have found two articles that have drawn my interest. The first being Writing home/decolonizing text(s), Nina Asher, Asher talks about how Colonization can affect an individual. For example the sense of home, and the overall understanding of

In Smith’s article  Curriculum Theory and Practice he examines the Tyler Rationale as a practical/scientific way of viewing curriculum. Instead of the focus being on how the students teach and developing skills like critical thinking the Tyler Rationale is solely focused on the end result. An example I can remember during schooling was taking a

Kumashino defines commonsense as what we should be doing. It is important for us to pay attention to ‘commonsense’ because the question in our head should not always be what should we do but instead what could we do. Using the ‘should we do’ moral imperative leaves you in a sort of constricted mindset, for