wâhkôhtowin Photostory Treaty Walk: Wascana Rowing Club Script Link Final Reflection: Treaties in the Classroom My name is Hannah Klassen. My ancestry stems from Ireland, Scotland, and Russia making me a 3rd generation white settler on this land. I would like to extend gratitude to the Creator for the natural world I’ve been able to connect with, and I would like to extend condolences to the people who have suffered due to the colonization that has changed this land into…
Final Project for EOE 224, taught by Karen McIvor December 6th, 2021 Nature is the one consistent thing that we as people all collectively experience because it is present throughout our entire lives in one way or another. As I was reflecting on this course and my understanding of outdoor education and outdoor experiences, I realized that my relationship with nature can be best described as an old childhood friend. We were introduced when I was very young, and I…
Hannah Klassen Background Hello! My name is Hannah Klassen, and I come from a white settler background with roots stemming from Scottish, Dutch, and German lineage. I was born and raised in Regina, Saskatchewan on Treaty 4 territory, the homeland of the Cree, Saulteaux, Nakota, Dakota, Lakota, and Metis peoples. As a person living on Treaty 4 territory, I promise to respect and show gratitude to the land that I live on, the plants and animals I live alongside, and…
Here is the link to the video portion of my final assignment! Thanks for a great semester everyone, good luck finishing up the semester and I’m looking forward to seeing familiar faces in the fall 🙂
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? After reading Poirier’s article: Teaching mathematics and the Inuit Community, identify at least three ways in which Inuit mathematics challenges Eurocentric ideas about the purposes of mathematics and the way we learn it. When I reflect on my experience of mathematics in school, I feel like the biggest aspect of oppression/discrimination that…
How can teachers maximize engagement among multilingual students? What are some effective ways to integrate multilingual instructional strategies into classrooms? The topic for this week’s content brought my attention to situations in our school systems that can create passive exclusion and isolation. Language and literacy are crucial throughout schooling because they are the basis for how people communicate. Often it is easy to default to the single story of “all students in my classroom understand English and they are all…
“How might we begin to address how the systems we teach our curriculum in are intrinsically homophobic, transphobic, biphobic, and oppressive towards queer and trans people?” This week’s topic feels very impactful as the teachings touch on the oppressive nature of the curriculum, but also in society. Gender and sexual diversity are topics all people have a perspective on. All people in society actively identify or do not identify with a gender, and humans are inherently sexual as we are biologically programmed…
What is the purpose of teaching Treaty Ed (specifically) or First Nations, Metis, and Inuit (FNMI) Content and Perspectives (generally) 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”? In answering these questions, I immediately think of Claire Kreugers introduction video in the listed materials. Specifically, her points stating less cultural representation in schools requires more education than in schools with a more…
I found this article really useful and informative as an emerging teacher where the environment I will be teaching in is progressively more and more technology-based. The new, progressive educational trends and adaptations to our current society are large topics with many continuously changing perspectives. I think the easiest way to understand new educational trends is to prepare students to apply their knowledge in all different types of situations. The global network context refers to the everchanging and evolving set…
“What’s your understanding of citizenship? How can we relate Treaty Education to citizenship?” Engage with this video (Joel Westheimer) and this podcast. (Mike Capello) My understanding of citizenship has definitely shifted over this past week, especially towards how the concept of citizenship can impact classroom ideologies. Joel Westheimer verbalized the traditional understanding of education as a way to “shape citizens” into good workers who can contribute something to society, which stemmed from the question “are schools the right place to…