Final Assignment
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 🙂
Understanding Numeracy
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…
Understanding Literacy and Multilingual Students
How can teachers maximize engagement among multilingual students? Â 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…
Gender and Sexual Diversity
“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…
Treaty Education
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…
John Dewey and the Challenge of Progressive Education
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…
Citizenship
“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…
Building Curriculum
Week 5 Blog Reflection In the article written by Levin, he explains that curriculum is heavily and primarily influenced by politics and policies. Politics entails the people who have the power in society to take societal opinions and perspectives, and reflect those ideologies into legislation. Personally, I do not follow politics very closely as a topic of interest but I do actively enact my right to vote. Although it makes complete sense, I’ve never specifically correlated political power to power…
The common sense of a “good student”
The majority of people would have some preconceived notion on what it means to be a “good” student. Presumably, we’ve all experienced more or less twelve years of schooling in which we experienced the expectations of a good student. Kumashiro explains in the chapter “Preparing Teachers for Crisis: A Sample Lesson” his experience with a student who did not fit the commonsense perspective of a good student; did not listen to instructions well, difficulties paying attention and listening quietly, and…
Curricular Concept Reflection
“Constructivism and Lesson Planning” January 19th/2023 For assignment one, I’ve decided to focus on constructivism and learner-centered approaches to teaching. I feel like this concept really focuses on a key aspect of education as a guide to help students acquire life skills and further independence. After skimming through a few articles that were a bit too dated, I found an article written by Lawrence A. White titled “Building Future-Ready Learners: Constructivism and Lesson Planning” published in the fall of 2021….