ECS 303:

A couple of descriptive words to describe the teacher that I want to be.

ECS 303: Teaching Philosphy

As I learn new information about how to become a better educator, I would argue that it is so important to create a strong relationship with every student. I have a strong belief that creating a strong relationship with your students, will make your classroom a place for positive learning to occur. Creating a positive

Week 10: Curriculum as Numeracy

Thinking back on my experience with math in the classroom, I do not have very many happy memories as I struggled with math all throughout elementary school. Math was always a difficult subject for me, I remember many teacher aids taking me out of the classroom to separately complete my work or exams with them.

Week 9: Curriculum as Literacy

I grew up in a working white middle-class family. My ancestors came from England and Ireland, as like most other white families. With one side of my grandparents living and working on a farm, they have some bias ideas about our community today, as they stay stuck in their ways. Don’t get me wrong I

Week 8: Curriculum as Citizenship

  What examples of citizenship education do you remember from your K-12 schooling? What types of citizenship (e.g. which of the three types mentioned in the article) were the focus? Explore what this approach to the curriculum made (im)possible in regards to citizenship.   Before taking this class I have never heard of these three

Week 7: Treaty Education

An email responding to a teacher who is currently having a hard time integrating Treaty Education in the classroom ; Good Morning, I have just received and read over your email. Thank you for contacting me about this issue you’re having. I will link some resources down below for you to look at and possibly

Week 6: Treaties, Curriculum & Public Policy

This week reading Levin’s article, I understood that making the curriculum is a lot more complicated than I have imagined. It’s very complex and comes with many different steps. There are many different people taking part in creating a curriculum such as the government, teachers, board members, etc. These people decide and debate on things

Week 5: Learning From Place

In this week’s article Learning from Place: A Return to Traditional Mushkegowuk Ways of Knowing. List some of the ways that you see reinhabitation and decolonization happening throughout the narrative: The things I saw were relationships being formed with young kids and elders within the community. How important it is to make a connection with

Week 4: The ” good ” student

What it means to be a good student according to common sense? A good student would be considered someone who follows the class outline without any disturbances or having any challenges. A student who follows what the teacher provides, and does exactly what they are told to do. Someone who sits quietly during class absorbs

Week 3: Critical Summary

For the upcoming critical summary assignment, I chose to look at Maxine Greene. This scholar has seemed to grab my interest in talking about arts education, Maxine was an advocate for arts education. She talks a lot about classrooms being stuck in their old habits, and how students aren’t fully engaged emotionally, spiritually and intellectually.