Standardized Testing
This week, I was asked to watch this video and read this story from the New Teacher Book, both of which discuss standardized testing, and to respond with my thoughts and understandings. As I listened to Alfie Kohn and …
Visual Representation of “Building Community from Chaos”
I really enjoyed the story “Building Community from Chaos” from the New Teacher Book. I made a visual representation of the story as a response, including quotes that resonated with me and pictures that I …
Hidden Messages in my Autobiography
After Katia’s lecture, we were asked to reconsider our autobiographical assignments and respond to the following question: What hidden messages are now visible to you in what you could offer as your autobiography? For example, …
Technology and Anti-Oppressive Education
How might the changing nature of learning and the increased prevalence of technology be related to social justice and anti-oppressive education? What is made possible/impossible by these tools and this type of learning? Here are …
Insulting Identity
This is my How Stories Shape Our Lives Assignment for ECS 210. Part 1 consists of summaries of 10 short stories from the New Teacher Book. It can be found here: Part 1: Summaries Part …
Expanding Knowledge through Treaty Education
I really enjoyed Claire Kreuger’s presentation on Treaty Education. I appreciated the honesty she approached us with, highlighting the mistakes she made in implementing treaty education and transforming those mistakes into lessons she learned and …
Prairie Sky School Mind Map
This is my mind map after learning about Prairie Sky School: This school provides alternative methods to “traditional” ways of teaching, with desks in rows and through lecturing. In this school space, children are free …
Troubling Knowledge at the U of R
In Chapter 1 of Against Common Sense, Kumashiro describes three popular images of “good teachers” that inform the ways teacher programs are preparing teachers. He then critiques each image, attempting to illuminate the hidden ways …
Why Teaching Racial Thinking is Problematic
A History of Education by Painter (1886) is a textbook that was once part of the formal curriculum for teacher education and was used by teachers in training in the early 1900s in Saskatchewan. In this …
Why Pay Attention to Common Sense?
In his book, Against Common Sense, Kumashiro defines “common sense” as assumptions that go unquestioned. He explains that at the core of “common sense” is the belief that a particular concept is the way things should …
