I feel for my own experience with math – the teachers would ‘move on’ if you didn’t get the formula right away or for the shy students that were too shy to speak up, if those students didn’t get the formula for math were also behind in the subject. With our guest speaker on Wednesday, she mentioned how math can be culturally bias – I never thought of math being suppressed, but viewing my own experience, it makes sense. In…
Teachers can maximize engagement among multilingual students by making the classroom environment more inclusive for all. The tips in the article mentioned “encouraging multilingual students to use their home languages alongside the language of the classroom, they come to view themselves as talented and accomplished speakers of multiple languages who are more likely to engage academically”(Jim Cummins, 2019), I believe that it is important to not shy away from home languages. I also believe that some strategies as mentioned in the…
I believe that the problems that arise from the exclusion of diverse students leads to lack of teacher communication amongst students. The curriculum is meant to teach diversity and inclusion but there are still issues within the system of educating and queering the curriculum. There is a social norm that is damaging towards students from diverse backgrounds and this also a correlation to students academic success. By connecting on a deeper level for students of diverse backgrounds and queering the…
The purpose of teaching Treaty Ed is to build strong relationships with all treaty people – settlers and Indigenous people. From my own understanding of “We are all Treaty People” and teaching treaty education – it is a learning process for all. Treaty education is mandatory in the curriculum, because Canada needs a renewal of relationships. Everyone learns what is means to be a treaty person – parents, students, and teachers. I want all to be educated that everyone has…
For my future classroom I have to focus on the action part of making my ideas come to life for students – and largely have an impact on their learning. Having a culturally relevant pedagogy within my future classroom will look like an inclusive, diverse environment, along with a mixture of praxis and process learning theories. The environment that I would want my future classroom to sound like is positive, understanding, communicative, and “…empower students to examine critically the society…
Hip Hop can be used as a tool to teach about gender, race, class, sexual orientation, and the relation of hip hop and culture. The way Hip Hop can teach about the challenges African Americans faced in the past is to understand their world through lyrics. Many people that were of color who spoke up for their rights were deemed as dangerous – this is a stereotype of African Americans. Ways to incorporate the topic of Hip Hop and understanding…
Citizenship is letting everybody be themselves. Schooling is viewed as being a place to train students for job training but there should be more than that. Every citizen brings their differences because we are not all the same. Politics within education can teach kids that they don’t have to agree with things. Citizenship is not about the basics but rather that everyone is not “the same”. Being a citizen is looking into the future too and by having the…
According to Levin, the curriculum is developed and implemented with a government agenda. The agenda is “…shaped in part by political commitments, party platforms, and the views of key political leaders.” (Levin, p.10). The people or ‘Actors’ involved with the decisions are a combination of: principals, teachers, local authority, senior administrators, parents, and business representatives. The decisions in the end are – what subjects will be taught along with the content of the subjects. The new information and perspectives I…
What it means to be a “good” student from the commonsense point of view is complying with society – this is by “meeting standards” (Kumashiro, p. 27) within a curriculum. For education the standard is to do it, get educated, finish school, and get a good paying job. Teachers have a lot of pressure from society to make these students into well rounded citizens and if they don’t succeed it “…shows a teacher’s indolence” (Painter). Teachers also feel “…pressure from…
I chose the scholar David Lewkowich in the article “Detours of Growth”. This article is about viewpoints on the education system and things that need attention. Lewkowich talks about the normalization in society and those impacts on child development. The normalization within child development is social control. The article also talks about if children are outside of the social control that is deemed ‘normal’ to the public these children need to be cured and corrected, or they are viewed as…