Sarah's Adventures in Inquiry

Scientific and Mathematical Language I will be honest, I do not like scientific and mathematical language. My philosophy has always been a focus on communication. If one is able to communicate ideas effectively, the words and terminology they use are less of a concern to me. I think that the purpose of scientific language is to aide in that communication, and if it is not beneficial to the communication of the idea, it is not serving its purpose.  Indigenizing the Classroom Reading this article only solidified my feelings towards indigenous teaching. Through the organization I work for, UBC Geering Up, we work with indigenous communities to combine STEM and indigenous ways of thinking and educating. We focus on how to incorporate STEM lessons within their own framework, rather than have them change their way of learning, thinking, and knowing. This is the approach I want to take to indigenize my classroom. I do not think "indigenizing" my classroom involves me telling their l...

ME on Becoming A Reflective Teacher I think this article is able to be relevant across decades because the matter it discusses is not solely about the kind of educator student teachers want to be, but also the kind of people we want to be. When reading this article, I often found myself trading out the word "teacher" for "person". The characteristics that Grant & Zeichner outline for being a reflective teacher are intertwined with characteristics for being a member of a society.  Oh the irrelevance...  T he parts of the article which I highlighted in being more irrelevant/outdated were the paragraphs discussing the teacher education program. When discussing the program, Grant & Zeichner put an emphasis on the pressures student teachers would receive from professors to be a certain way, and hold specific views. They outlined "power relationships", and that our university professors will "emphasize, deemphasize and ignore difficult points of vie...