Hailey Jorgensen

Think back on your experiences of the teaching and learning of mathematics — were there aspects of it that were oppressive and/or discriminating for you or other students? Looking back at my previous school experiences with math, I do not feel it was discriminatory towards anyone in terms of their culture, beliefs, etc… because in my school there was not much diversity in the demographic of our school, which was primarily white. If there was however, someone from a different…

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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? Within the “Deepening the Discussion” document, there is a whole list of things that an educator can do to address these issues, including: putting a focus on issues and not opinions, ask students to put themselves in the other person’s shoes rather than looking at it from their own perspective;…

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What is the purpose of teaching Treaty Ed where there are few or no First Nations, Metis, Inuit peoples? What does it mean for your understanding of curriculum that “We are all treaty people”? It is very important to teach Treaty Education to everyone because at some point in your life, you are likely to interact with a person with an Indigenous background or beliefs. In most of our histories, we would have had ancestors who interacted with Indigenous peoples when…

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What will culturally relevant pedagogy look like, sound like, feel like, in your future classroom?  Well firstly, creating a culturally relevant classroom involves me discovering and planning for the demographic in my classroom and ask myself: 1) what do my students need?, and 2) what do I want my students to learn? I hope to choose a variety of cultural and age appropriate resources that reflect societal problems in the community in which I am teaching, and encourage students to…

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