Shelley Moore This past week we had the opportunity to listen to Shelley Moore’s TED Talk, and her story about Daniel. The message of the video emphasizes the importance of presuming competence within our students. We need to trust that our students are competent learners and that they can learn. The student that Shelley was
Since our last class, we had the opportunity to attend a gender and sexual diversity workshop put on by URpride called “Building Positive Spaces for Gender and Sexually Diverse Students.” As a cisgender, straight male, I have not experienced oppression based on my gender and sexual orientation. However, teaching and growing up in rural Saskatchewan,
This week the articles read were Welcoming Gender Diversity in the Early Years by Timmons and Airton, Can We Learn Queerly?: Normativity and Social Justice Pedagogies by Loutzenheiser, and lastly the section on The Gender Politics of Curriculum Reform by Pinar. Reading the work of Timmons and Airton highlighted the responsibility that early childhood educators
Playfulness, “World”-Travelling and Loving Perception The article Playfulness, “World”-Travelling and Loving Perception by Lugones discusses the importance of cross-cultural and cross-racial loving. I will be honest this article took me a lot to get through. I often found myself going back and rereading parts to try to understand exactly what the author was addressing. The paper
We Are All Treaty People Cynthia Chamber’s article, “We Are All Treaty People”: The Contemporary Countenance of Canadian Curriculum Studies explores her family’s connection to the land, impact on the land, and the perpetuation of colonialism. The past semester, I took a class on culturally relevant pedagogy that really focused on the importance of the
I am a white settler currently living and working on Treaty 4 land in southeastern Saskatchewan. I grew up in Weyburn, Saskatchewan, where I went to school, and then moved to Regina to take my undergrad in Education to focus on middle years. After my degree, I moved to the small rural town of Ogema,
Building Off Your Thoughts: Treaty Education and Minecraft
*This post has been cross posted with Raquel Oberkirsch. During EC&I 834 last week, Dr. Couros put us into breakout rooms so each person could share the first module of their course prototype and we could give feedback on each other’s courses. We received both positive and constructive feedback, which is already helping us rethink
Read More