Author: slb257

Good morning, I just want to first off thank you for bringing awareness to a place that needs to be more educated by the sounds of your concerns. Teaching Treaty Education is apart of our jobs being teachers and you are doing a great job bringing awareness to your classroom. Let us start by problem…

Thinking about how I want my future classroom to be culturally relevant reminds me of some of the teachers I had growing up. I do feel fortunate for the teachers I had and some of them being of Indigenous decent. I remember in my grade three class learning how to make pemmican and listening to…

I’m not up to date on my hip hop culture, so at first I was wondering why this article was important in our readings. While reading it and made many clear and precise points. Relationship building, promoting black history (a topic I am definitely under developed in), building culture in your classroom, are a few…

The type of citizenship education I remember growing up according to the article What Kind of Citizen? The Politics of Educating for Democracy written by Joel Westheimer and Joseph Kahne would range from personally responsible citizen to participatory citizen. I do no recall any experiences that would of lead us to bigger issues and classified…

What should be learned in schools and who is making the decisions on this? This week we read two articles about curriculum and learning and how it is a complicated system and how Saskatchewan curriculums are out dated and in need of change, but the difficulties that arise from making change come down to some…

I believe that we will be able to teach our curriculum in a natural way towards queer and trans people if we leave biases at the door and are open to discussions with our classrooms without placing judgement or making derogatory remarks and comments. On page 29, of the Deepening the Discussion: Gender and Sexual…

To be a good student according to “common sense” you must follow and obey what is expected of you. What society, public, or teachers consider the norm for their classrooms. In Kumashiro’s second chapter of his novel, Against Common Sense he talks about, how he became frustrated with students. He assumed that “being a student…

Although, we are coming to a better understanding on how and what reconciliation should look like, we are far from acknowledging our wrong doings of the past. Educators have an immense role in shaping educational change and teachings. In the article Navigating the “ethical space” of truth and reconciliation: Non-Indigenous school principals in Sask written…

In my educational journey, I was unaware that the teaching that was being taught was following the “Ralph Tyler Model.” Looking back, it does make sense that, that was what my teachers were using. There was a set plan, which was structured and organized. This plan would end with a “product” or result of how…

I think that Kumashiro defines “common sense” as something we should all know, or a certain group of people will know and that is what makes it common. What was common for Kumashiro was not common for the people of Nepal where he went to be a teacher. When it comes to his ideas of…