Category: About Me

  [Culturally relevant pedagogy and critical literacy in diverse English classrooms: A case study of a secondary English teacher’s activism and agency]: What will culturally relevant pedagogy look like, sound like, and feel like, in your future classroom? [Placing elementary music education: a case study of a Canadian rural music program.] How will you, as…

[Critical Hip Hop Pedagogy as a Form of Liberatory Praxis]: 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 among students?  Hip-hop I’ve always known to be a form of expression and…

For me, my understanding of citizenship is gained by meeting the legal requirements for that specific country or state. What I mean by this is for example; within Canada having citizenship means I meet the qualifications I need to be a Canadian citizen and live freely. When I think of citizenship I think of legal…

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 the school curriculum? Is there anything that surprises you or maybe concerns you? After reading pages 1-4 of the Treaty Education document, what connections can you make between the article…

We discussed at the beginning of the semester, common sense and the ideas behind it, we also discussed what common-sense means to future educators. For this blog post, we were required to focus on common sense with the question of what it means to be a “good” student. I have been in school for many…

Topic: Reconciliation and the Curriculum We’ve discussed throughout my educational journey a lot about Reconciliation and how we as human beings can help repair our relationships with Indigenous cultures and the environment we call “home” or “land.” Now, it is time to start discussing Reconciliation within the curriculum and how we as future educators may…

Personally, I think I’ve experienced the Tyler rationale within my own schooling when we use to do the RAD test, which was a standardized test every student had to do twice in each grade all the way until grade eight. We had to do it once at the beginning of the year to see what…

After reading the article from Kumashiro called The Problem of Common Sense, I felt the knowledge I had previously had on “common sense” was given from a different perspective which was nice to see and read. From what I read, I felt Kumashiro described common sense as different practices and approaches that are done every…

For my aesthetic representation, I decided to create a collage of pictures that I thought best represented the history of residential schools within Canada. I added two orange hands to represent coming together and fixing the broken relationships with our Indigenous people. I chose the color orange because of the annual orange shirt day that…

#1 Teachers, Knowledge, Building Relationships: Invitation and Hospitality Throughout being in school, my teachers always managed to build inviting and hospitable environments within every classroom whether that be them awarding the students on their good behavior, giving certain discussions that allow us to become closer with one another, or even just mixing up groups to…