Summary of Learning
Good afternoon everyone, Posted below is my summary of learning, hope you enjoy, and thanks for a great semester!
Discrimination in Mathematics?!
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…
“Deepening the Discussion” is a great resource!
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;…
“We are all Treaty People”
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…
My future classroom…
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…
Hip Hop Pedagogy
How can hip hop be used as a tool to promote social justice and youth activism in the classroom? What is the relationship between hip hop culture and the development of critical consciousness amongst students? The article points out that many of the lyrics in notable hip hop artists’ songs criticize the current education system by saying the schools are teaching students lies rather than how to survive. Hip hop music can be a great way to educate students on…
Citizenship
What’s your understanding of citizenship? How can we relate Treaty Education to citizenship? I never thought of citizenship as being anything other than belonging to a country. A citizen of Canada pays taxes and has the papers and the licences that show they call Canada home. I have expanded my definition of citizenship to mean they contribute positively to our society (working, volunteering) and we have certain rights. Here in Canada we live relatively free lives and are supposedly a…
Building Curriculum
According to the Levin article, how are school curricula developed and implemented? What new information/perspectives does this reading provide about the development and implementation of school curriculum? Is there anything that surprises you or maybe that concerns you? After reading pages 1-4 of the Treaty Education document, what connections can you make between the article and the implementation of Treaty Education in Saskatchewan? What tensions might you imagine were part of the development of the Treaty Education curriculum? School curricula is…
Being a Good Student
What does it mean to be a “good” student according to the commonsense? Which students are privileged by this definition of the good student? How is the “good” student shaped by historical factors? Being a “good student” according to common sense is being a student that conforms and is easily controlled, as thought by Kumushiro. He wanted his students to follow his directions and became frustrated when his students dd not want to learn at the pace he was teaching….
Sex Education in the Ontario Curriculum
I chose to look into sex education for my critical summary and for this blog post I decided to summarize an article which looks into and discusses parent reactions to the implementation of the Ontario sex education curriculum in 2015 and 2019. The article explains that in response to the 2015 curriculum many parents were keeping their children home from school in protest. With the change of government in 2018, there was a temporary sex education curriculum put into place that…