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Teaching Reflection: Week 3
Questioning the binary: You tell kids there are more than 2 genders and they won’t freak out. Like they really don’t care. Developing cultural identity: Kids don’t implicitly know how unique their experiences are. That their culture(s) is (are) special and unique and important. Reaffirming cultural identity: Recognizing the cultures that students come from is…
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Teaching Reflection: Week 2
Finished my first full week of teaching middle school French and I’m exhausted but so elated. Injecting critical pedagogy into a curriculum is hard. The county curriculum isn’t openly anti-critical, but upholds the status quo that accepts French as an esteemed language to be learned without questioning why so many people speak it outside of…
The Alvearie 