Author: Gledi Toci

This course has been extremely educational, and also exciting. It was fun meeting new people and always had the chance to talk to other students in breakout rooms. Every time I started something in the zoom call it felt like my opinions were heard. I finished all the blog posts required for this course, and…

The queer sexual identity has yet to be accepted like other sexual identification. This is strongly due to people often feeling scared to identify as queer since they often feel looked down upon. Kolker, Taylor, and Galupo phrase it best when they state that, “It is expected that participants will identify as queer within settings…

How has your upbringing/schooling shaped how you “read the world?” What biases and lenses do you bring to the classroom? How might we unlearn / work against these biases? Which “single stories” were present in your own schooling? Whose truth mattered? I moved here in grade 5, and if I am being honest I did…

As a future mathematics teacher, I have a strong love for math. I have been good at it for my whole life, and my favorite part about math is that there is a right and wrong answer. Even when I moved to Canada, I was still able to do the math here very well, considering…

During fall semester several years ago, Dr. Mike Cappello received an email from an intern asking for help. Here’s part of it: “As part of my classes for my three week block I have picked up a Social Studies 30 course. This past week we have been discussing the concept of standard of living and…

After reading both Lopez and Brook’s articles, I feel as if I have a farther better understanding of relevant pedagogy in the classroom, as well as how to better contribute to the sense of self in my classroom. Firstly, I have become more aware of the importance of equality in a classroom. Having each student…

After reading “Critical Hip Hop Pedagogy as a Form of LiberatoryPraxis” by A. A. Akom, I could not agree anymore with the impact hip-hop could have in a classroom. I have been listening to hip-hop/rap for almost my whole life. I had always enjoyed listening to hip-hop/rap because obviously it was catchy and had good…

The curriculum has always been something difficult to get right. These outcomes and indicators build our future generation’s knowledge and beliefs. However, the curriculum can feel exclusive for some people in regards to their race, culture, gender, sex, disability, and much more. Therefore the question of ‘How do we get it right?’ rises. Well, the…

I have gotta start by saying, I wasn’t always the “good” student, well what society considers good anyways. I wasn’t always the quietest person in the class much like M. I was seen as a trouble maker by many of my teachers, I struggled to be quiet in class, and had very strong opinions. Even…

While still continuing to look at topics for my first assignment. The hidden curriculum topic intrigued me the most since we first mentioned it. I never knew what the hidden curriculum was or what it stood for. It was not so long ago introduced to the concept of the hidden curriculum and its issues. I…