Shay Swystun

Here is the link to my digital story for assignment 4.

I was the type of math student who got fairly good grades but had to work really hard to get them. In my grade 11 year I probably spent 70% of my lunch hours getting extra help so I could maintain my good grades. I think that there will always be a variety of students in math classes, students who math comes easy to and they love it and students would rather be doing literally anything else then math. When…

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When I think back on my education both my elementary experience and high school experience were similar in the fact that I was exposed to many different cultures, I always had many students in my classes who game from other cultures such as First Nation, Pilipino, Asian and so on. I did attend catholic school which played a big part in my life. I do not practice religion as often now that I am out of school, but I still…

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I have never heard of the three different kinds of citizenship before doing this week assigned tasks, I thought it was very interesting to look back and group my teachers based on the three different characteristics. Going through elementary school the most prominent type of citizen was “ the Personally Responsible Citizen”  this type of citizen shows characteristics of integrity and does a lot for their community. For example, donating blood, or giving food to food Drives. I believe that this…

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If I was put in this position, I would reply somewhere along the lines of… Dear Intern,  This is a issue that is very prevalent in the Canadian education system but I am sorry to hear that you are having such a hard time. I personally almost always had treaty ed implemented into my classrooms growing up however, through my secondary education I have meant several people who did not have that opportunity, and the idea of treaty ed is…

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In Levin’s article “Curriculum Policy and the Politics of what should be learned in schools” it explains the development of school curriculum. There was a large emphasise on policies, polices conduct everything that has to do with aspects of education. Education is very political which I was always aware of, but I was still shocked at the extent of just how political education is even though many decisions are made with little public knowledge or attention. The government brings many…

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Week 5: In the article this week Learning from Place: A Return to Traditional Mushkegowuk Ways of Knowing. They examine critical pedagogy of place and how it is tied with identity, recovery, space and place that help us live well in our environments which is seen as rein habitation and also, decolonization, or identity and change ways of thinking that injure and exploit other people and places. In regard to rein habitation and decolonization within the article youth got the opportunity to…

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In the article “Preparing Teachers for Crisis a Sample Lesson” by Kumashiro it talks about different types of students, learning styles and learning standards. He examines teachers and argues that when teaching we should be considerate of anti-oppressive education and working through student crisis. This article was very eye opening and got me thinking about certain ideas that I have never considered before.  Growing up in elementary school you could always tell who the “good” and who the “bad” students…

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As I began looking through scholars and topics my interest first peaked at Death/Ghosts in the curriculum. When I started to look into this topic there were not a lot of articles to choose from and they seemed to lack interest and did not argue points that I thought they would, so I turned my focus to disability in the curriculum. There were multiple articles that touched on many different views around disability. I found an article that stood out…

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