• ECS 203

    The Importance of Play – Critical Summary

    23/09/2020 For my critical summary, I decided to focus on play in the curriculum. While researching I came across the work of Margaret Latta. Latta is a Canadian teacher that holds her Bed (University of Lethbridge), MA, and Ph.D. (University of Calgary). The article I decided to focus on is, “Accessing the Curricular Play of Critical and Creative Thinking”. This…

  • ECS 203

    Curriculum Theory & Practice – Smith

    17/09/2020 Throughout my schooling I did not experience Tyler’s rationale a lot, because I was an average student, therefore the curriculum worked well for my learning style. I do acknowledge that this was not the case for everyone in my class. Tyler’s rationale was to group everyone, which does not work well because you will never get a group of…

  • ECS 203

    The Problem of Common Sense – Kumashiro

    09/09/2020 Throughout the article Kumashiro tells his story about teaching in Nepal and how that changed his view as an educator. A big part of the reason why his view was changed so much was because he was experiencing living in a whole other world, and learning skills that the locals deemed “common sense”. Kumashiro believes that common sense is…

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    Miss Messer’s Message

    I would like to welcome all of you to my educational blog. As of right now I am in my 2nd year of elementary education at the University of Regina. I would like to start by explaining a few unique features about my blog! The number one feature that is unique to my blog is that some of my writing…