critical pedagogy
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Final Teaching Reflection
It’s the last day of school. I sent my students videos as a goodbye, making sure to place my bi pride flag and women of Wakanda poster in the background. Even though I won’t be going back to that school, I wanted to remind my students what I stand for–inside and outside of the classroom.…
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Teaching Reflection: Week 20/21
Negotiated syllabus: I love the negotiated syllabus because it makes me (and hopefully my students) so intentional. Shout out to the critical crew at the University of Hawaiʻi, Second Language Studies department: I felt really comfortable scaffolding activities to help students contribute to making the syllabus There’s a lot that we had no choice on…
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Teaching Reflection: Week 16/17
Having time away from work has been such a huge blessing. I’ve gotten time to re-evaluate who I am as a person, and thus who I want to be as an educator. I plan on finishing out this quarter focusing on getting the students ready for their Quarterly Assessments. I’m honestly happy to be running…
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Teaching Reflection: Week 13
I need to detach myself from the weight of testing and quantitative data. I have 2 purposes (for myself) as a teacher. They are coexistent but don’t have to relate to each other– Engage my students in critically analyzing their world. Develop their French proficiency according to standards set by the county. The second is…
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Teaching Reflection: Week 11
Decolonial pedagogy: We’ve been talking about Canadian residential schools in my 8th grade classes and the students have been a lot more interested and reactionary than I thought they would. Curiosity, anger, questions about whether it happened in the U.S. Assimilation and contemporary connections to immigration. This all engaged students who I never would’ve thought…
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