Here are some representative pictures and media that can help explain who I am as a Teacher Candidate.
This is a picture of my girlfriend and I on the Sky Pilot Suspension Bridge, near Squamish, BC. We are pointing at Sky Pilot Mountain, which is the highest mountain peak in the Britannia Range of the Coast Mountains. We are lucky to be able to live in a part of the world as beautiful as British Columbia, therefore as a teacher I will use this outdoor classroom to its fullest by implementing a program that prioritizes place-based education.
This format of picture is something that most people are most likely familiar with, but I think that this one in particular does a good job of explaining the difference between equality and equity. The last panel is especially powerful, because it is in effect a call to action to the viewer. As a future teacher I seek to take this call to action and do what I can to remove systemic barriers of oppression that are found in my classroom and community.
As this photograph taken by the Apollo 8 mission demonstrates: we as people live in a small and delicate place in the cosmos. Due to this fact, I will prepare my students to become environmentally-conscious global citizens. We only have one Earth, so it is not only prudent, but completely necessary to peacefully coexist and cooperate with those whom we share this space with to maintain our world for future generations.
This is an episode of the ESL Teaching Podcast that I used when tutoring English to a Japanese student. I used the information in this episode when designing my lessons, and incorporated the small amount of Japanese that I know into the lesson to positively affect their learning outcomes. In my future classroom, I intend to utilize the languages that ELL students have as a strength and, if they are willing, give them opportunities to teach us some of their language.
This is a video I created for my Social Studies Methods class in the Bachelor of Education program. It is a description of a place-based learning lesson that I created with inspiration from Imogene Lim, who was a guest speaker at TRU’s Human Rights Committee’s Championing Change event. It involves students learning about the history of exploitation that Chinese Canadians have experience in Kamloops through being present in the last remnant of Kamloops’s historical Chinatown – the Kamloops Chinese cemetery. Through this lesson, students would engage in an immersive exploration of the historical context and significant contributions of Kamloops’s Chinese Canadian population.