Author: Madison Gilbert

Attached below is the link to my final video assignment for ECS203, discussing what I have learnt this semester about curriculum and pedagogy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5D4lbNj0lw

As someone who really struggled with mathematics all throughout elementary and high school, I had a different school experience than my friends who excelled at it.  For starters, lunch hours and spares became extra math tutoring time.  While I appreciated my teachers offering extra help, and I always went willingly as I wanted to get […]

As Canada is considered a multicultural country, it is incredibly important that we as educators understand how to best engage students who are multilingual.  There are a few different ways that we can approach this, such as inviting those students to use their first language in the classroom.  This can be done by inviting a […]

Growing up in a small farm town, gender and sexual identity were not common conversations in the community.  There were of course those of us who were not afraid of the topic and were comfortable discussing it with those open enough to listen, but again, this was not the majority.  I had the unique experience […]

Treaty Education and First Nations, Metis, and Inuit Content and Perspectives (FNMI) is important in Canadian classrooms for a multitude of reasons.  Whether the particular classroom it is being taught in has Indigenous students or not, it is imperative for our students to understand our country’s history, and how it affects settler descendants, as well […]

As a future educator I will strive to include culturally relevant pedagogy in my classroom in many different ways, taking notes from the reading Culturally Relevant Pedagogy and Critical Literacy In Diverse English Classrooms: A Case Study of A Secondary English Teacher’s Activism and Agency by Ann E. Lopez.  For one, I will make room […]

After reading the document Critical Hip Hop Pedagogy As A Form of Liberatory Praxis written by A. A. Akom, I came to the conclusion that hip hop can be used as a tool to promote social justice and youth activism in the classroom in a multitude of ways.  First, Critical Hip Hop Pedagogy, also known […]

After watching and listening to What Kind of Citizen? Educating Our Children for the Common Good by Joel Westheimer, I have some newly developed ideas about what it means to be a citizen.  The most important ideas that I picked up from the video were that good, socially responsible citizens; participate in democratic duties such […]

The reading Curriculum Policy and the Politics of What Should Be Learned In Schools written by Ben Levin, discusses the implementation and development of school curriculum.  When it comes to creating a new curriculum in education, there are a number of steps that are put into place.  There is a proposed change or new concept […]

Through the readings and class lectures these past few weeks, I have come to the understanding that there is a common idea of what it means to be a “good” student.  This is a student that is quiet when not being spoken to, yet is forthcoming in class discussions.  They memorize course material well, yet […]