Author: Zoe Akrigg

This is my summary of learning for ECS 203!

Think back on your experiences of the teaching and learning of mathematics — were there aspects of it that were oppressive and/or discriminating for you or other students? I heard a story from an older family friend recently that made me reflect on my school experiences and I realized it was also very true for […]

Canada is a very diverse country, so it is very likely that we as educators will have students whose first language is not English. To maximize the engagement of our multilingual students we could allow them to write in their own language for some assignments and then use a translator to grade or read their […]

As many of us know, the curriculum does not talk about the 2SLGBTQ+ community at all. This is a huge problem because many of our students may be wondering about such things or may be part of this community. We as teachers should include teaching about this community within our teaching so that our students […]

Dr. Mike Cappello received an email from an intern asking for help. Here’s part of it: “As part of my classes for my three week block I have picked up a Social Studies 30 course. This past week we have been discussing the concept of standard of living and looking at the different standards across […]

Something that really stuck out to me from “Placing elementary music education: a case study of a Canadian rural music program” by Julia Brook was the five core themes of place-based education: “(1) finding assets in the surrounding human and natural environments, (2) realizing the challenges and potentialities of a collective effort, (3) recognizing the […]

I have never thought about hip hop being a way of teaching students social justice and activism. I have never heard of it either. After reading “Critical Hip Hop Pedagogy as a Form of Liberatory Praxis” by A. Akom, I see how it could be useful in certain classrooms. There are versions of hip hop […]

Citizenship is something that is open to interpretation by every person. Of course there are the legal ground rules for citizenship but there is so much more to it than that. To me if someone has the legal documents saying they are a citizen of a country, then they are a citizen. I do think […]

According to Benjamin Levin’s article, the curriculum is made and heavily influenced by the political situations within the province. Although there are other people that contribute to the curriculum such as teachers, ministry of education members, parents, and experts, the politicians have the most influence on what is included or excluded from the curriculum. Levin […]

According to commonsense being a good student is behaving as the “typical” student would. In this sense it means that they behave well and do not disrupt the class, if they have a question they raise their hand and don’t blurt the question out, they glide through the curriculum as expected with no challenges, and […]