As I read Teaching mathematics and the Inuit community, I was able to grow my knowledge on the subject and have a deeper understanding of why we should include FN culture into more subjects. As mentioned in the reading, students are taught and able to speak their native language only until grade 3. After that, they are required to learn either English or French to continue their studies. This for me I thought was a little harsh for these students. To be forced to learn a new language at a young age and forget everything they were taught would be very challenging. As educators I do not think there is…
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Treaty Education
I believe there is always a place for Treaty Education to be placed into classrooms. Whether there is one First Nations student or a hundred of them, Treaty Education should be taught. In the email, reading about how students took the subject manner as a joke saddens me. These children are left in the dark and are not being taught the importance if Treaty Education. It does not matter if there are any First Nations students in the school or in your classroom, teaching about treaties is important for the students in our classroom for them to have a better understanding of what treaties really are. The students need to…
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Culturally Relevant Pedagogy
Cultural pedagogy will be present in my future classroom in multiple ways. I will make sure to educate myself and do my research before hand in order to have a better understanding of different cultures. Including all of the different cultures into my future classroom is very important to me. I want to make sure all of my students are being included at all times and to make them feel like they all belong. No one will be excluded. I would occasionally bring in guest speakers of different cultures to educate students and also myself. Have books, articles, websites included into the class for anyone to access them. My classroom…