This week, as we explored Chapter 9 of Teaching Each Other, I found myself reflecting again on what it means to connect students to learning through relationship and relevance. The case studies in this chapter focused on learning in the community, learning on the land, and learning from Elders bring to life the principle that … More Week 7: Learning with the Land, the Community, and the Elders
This week, I revisited Chapter 7 and Chapter 8 of Teaching Each Other: Nehinuw Concepts & Indigenous Pedagogy. I found myself returning to the idea that teaching and learning are living, relational acts. Goulet and Goulet write about classrooms as communities of belonging where knowledge is built collectively and where the relationships between people, place, … More Week 5: Learning in Relation: Stories, Weather, and Community
For my EDL 829 course we presented interactive activities that connect to our course text Teaching Each Other: Nehinuw Concepts & Indigenous Pedagogies (Goulet & Goulet, 2014). The interactive activity that I shared was a version of a student check in called Rose, Bud and Thorn — however in my classroom we have taken to … More Give Them Their Flowers Facilitation Guide
This week, I’ve been sitting with Chapters 6 and 7 of Teaching Each Other: Nehinuw Concepts & Indigenous Pedagogy by Goulet & Goulet. These chapters Weetutoskemitowin (Working Together: Social Systems) and Iseechigehina (Planned Actions: Connection to the Process) pushed me to think beyond how I connect to my students and toward how I connect students … More Week 4: Connection to Space and Content
This week’s reading in Teaching Each Other focused around teacher student relationships. Goulet and Goulet poin out that these relationships are “foundational to engaging Indeginous children in learning” (p.98). The cree word that really stuck with me this week was weechihitowin– being helpful and supportive. I think by nature many teachers fall into this category … More Week 3: Connecting with Students
Will Whitten 