I grew up on an acreage in a rural community outside Edmonton. I went to a small rural high school until half way through grade 11 when I transferred to a new school because the bullying…
I have been at my volunteer placement for 10 hours total. I have had 2 shifts at the clinic and I was able to be part of running a booth for SEARCH at an event…
Identity is being who you are. Identity is influenced by everything around oneself and of oneself. A teacher’s identity is constructed through much of the basic parts of one’s life, personality, and where one comes from.…
In lecture today, we had this really interesting woman come in and talk about math. I actually enjoyed math for the most part in elementary through jr. high and high school. I was good at…
Each province has a teachers association or federation that represents the teachers of the province in negotiations about things like health and dental plans, salary, or pension plans. In Saskatchewan, there is the Saskatchewan Teacher’s Federation (STF).…
Today, I started my volunteer placement at SEARCH in Regina. SEARCH is an acronym that stands for Student Energy in Action for Regina Community Health. It is a student-run facility that provides programming to the community of…
In drawing from my previous post on the Hidden Curriculum there are links to other concepts that can be made. For example, the hidden curriculum can be linked to a theory in education called the Reproduction…
Something I was not lucky enough to be taught in school was treaty education. During lecture today the question came up of “did any of you have treaty education in school” there was about 10%…
The article for this weeks reading, “Learning from Place: A Return to Traditional Mushkegowuk Ways of Knowing”, is a study of the Mushkegowuk ways of knowing and interactions between the youth and elders int he…
The content in classrooms taught by the teacher is from the formal curriculum. This curriculum is written down in a formal and attractive document made by the provincial or federal government. Outside of this curriculum,…
