Based on your own experiences, what you are learning in the course, and what you have found out about the independent school that you are researching, how does the school, their classrooms and teachers honor inclusive practices? How is your school community honoring equal representation, equity, and human rights for all students (including sexual and gender diversity) within their schools and communities?
The school that our group researched (The Prairie Sky School) honors inclusive practices because they realize that not everyone learns in the same way, and that the “typical” classroom environment can sometimes hinder a student’s potential. They take a very proactive approach to their education by realizing that learning involves the heart, the head, and the hands equally. As a result, their teaching was very inclusive, for it allowed the learner to decide how to best represent their learning.
Both the University of Regina, as well as my previous high school, has done a wonderful job at coming to honor equal representation, as well as gender and sexual diversity. There are classes, as well as entire programs of study that are dedicated to these topics. We still have a long way to go before we see truly equal representation, but we have made significant progress. It will be my responsibility, as a teacher, to continue this progress: to break biases, and enlighten my students to new ways of thinking, so that everyone sees equal representation in the near future.
