Email Response

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…

By slb257 November 18, 2020 4

Hip Hop Culture in Education

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…

By slb257 October 29, 2020 2

Week 7 – What Citizen Will you Teach?

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…

By slb257 October 20, 2020 0

Curriculum Development

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…

By slb257 October 15, 2020 2

The “Good” Student

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…

By slb257 October 1, 2020 0

Reconciliation in Education and Schools

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…

By slb257 September 23, 2020 0

The “Tyler Rationale”

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…

By slb257 September 17, 2020 4

The Problem of Common Sense

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…

By slb257 September 10, 2020 0