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Powtoon - 5 Tips for Understanding Student Identity

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Powtoon - 5 Tips for Understanding Student Identity

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Creating this powtoon for this class really helped challenge my notions of what it means to have an identity, and how identity can be something I as a Cis White male can often not be considerate of in my classroom. It was helpful to zoom out and see the big picture here: Who gets hurt when identity isn't something I consider in the creation of my curriculum?

As someone who works at an arts dominant school, the majority of my students have varied identities that are as complex as the individual itself. As such, considering my job in understanding student identity was a wonderful and useful exercise.

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Mind Map - Supporting Positive Behaviours

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Mind Map - Supporting Positive Behaviours

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I really enjoyed constructing and considering this mind map regarding supportive positive behaviors in the classroom for my students. One of the things that really caught me as a big idea was the concept of restorative justice and how necessary an idea it is in the modern classroom. Most folks my age grew up with schools that worked more with punitive justice where punishment was at the forefront of the consideration for justice. So relearning how different approaches to justice can help aid students as they grow was a phenomenal experience for me in this class.

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This is a podcast I made to discuss the concept of advocacy for my third module in this course. Specifically I focused on unique learning styles as well as individual student advocacy and the process of creating this brought a lot of great big concepts into sharp focus. Once again, the big takeaway here for me was the idea that having the concept of individualized student achievement is great, but one needs to create a real concrete plan that they are able to execute on these ideas for. This was clear to me in the creation of a case study for an imaginary student. It allowed me to really get into the process of developing a concrete practical plan that can be carried out, and that's a skill that will aid me for years to come as an educator.

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Student Led Learning Storyboard - Image 2

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Student Led Learning Storyboard - Image 2

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This is my storyboard which indicates a general overview of how to approach student led learning in the classroom.

Student led learning was definitely something I was already interested in, as well as executing in my classroom. However, I was simply doing so in a manner that was for lack of a better term "shooting from the hip". That is to say, I did not have a real plan in mind, I just thought student participation was important and tried to make sure students were as involved as possible. However, during the production and creation of this story board, I really got a sense of how to take the time to sit down and plan student led interactions with clarity and conciseness. I got the big idea behind the idea of student participation in terms of creating a sense of student led equity and involvement in my classroom. As such, the creation of this resource was a phenomenal experience for me.

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I've attached here the first image for my top ten ideas brochure. I will attach the other image in another post. This artifact represents a lot regarding my learning. I really had to consider what safety and equity in the classroom meant to me personally and what it could mean to my students and this really forced me to zoom out and to analyze some of my own personal biases as an educator. Overall the creation of this brochure helped me to deeply consider what my job as an educator and caretaker of highschool students is, and in doing so really helped me find my footing as a teacher.