Author Archives: chandrapalazzo

Math is something most young children fear. Math creates this type of anxiety that kids stress, and/or come home crying about. Sometimes that was me…. Throughout elementary we were allowed to use our calculators so ultimately we would just do everything on a calculator for assignments. I felt like I was unprepared for high school.Continue reading “Week 10-mathematics”

I went to a Catholic school for all my schooling and majority of my classes were white privileged. The teachers I had in elementary school always said “once you hit high school the teachers will not baby you like we do here so we want to prepare you for high school”, which was not trueContinue reading “Week 9”

Citizenship is a way for students to get involved with communities, learn the policies and practices of being active in communities, develop social roles and norms around you. In my experience, lots of my citizenship experience was helping out around our school community. There was tons of options for getting involved in the community inContinue reading “Week 8”

Reading Cynthia’s article gave me a new perspective of what treaty education encompasses. On page 29, It states that treaties are something “we” share, Cynthia uses the word “we” because treaties are our stories and since we are all treaty people we must learn from each other. Cynthia stated treaties of Canada “As long asContinue reading “Week 7:Treaty Education Response”

In Levin’s article about curriculum he states that curriculum is heavily structured by governments and other companies. Therefore, students have no say in what curriculum states, and teaches. Students are the one’s learning the curriculum so I believe they should have a little say in what it encompasses. It worries me that teachers, and communityContinue reading “Week 6”

In this article there are many examples of decolonization and reinhabitation. The one point that stood out to me the most was the connection to nature and the impacts it has on children’s minds and bodies. Therefore, taking learning outside in the future could help my future students to make a better connection with natureContinue reading “Week Five”

A good student is one who is actively involved and paying attention. When student’s are engaged you can see how interested they are in the lesson/topics which can create great discussions/debates. A student can be considered “good” by even just showing or expressing that they are paying attention versus resting their heads on their desk.Continue reading “Week Four”

I have chosen to do my paper on the hidden curriculum. A lot of my schooling I have had seemed to focus a lot on the hidden curriculum , I think it is very important but sometimes I think it takes over the actual curriculum a student must learn. I found most my teachers wouldContinue reading “Blog 3”

I have found in my classrooms I have been in the teachers have focussed too much on content and not enough on the relationship aspect of learning. It is hard to learn from someone you don’t feel comfortable with. We need to allow students and teachers to also interact. In this reading it said curriculumContinue reading “Second blog”

Common sense is something that everyone is expected to know. Kumanshiro is new to the village and the things that may be correct/right wasn’t for him, it took him awhile to learn and develop the knowledge of the village of what others do or what they perceive as common sense. His attempts to teach andContinue reading “The problem of common sense”