Reflecting back to the course of EDUC 394, we have covered some heavy topics like SOGI and LGBQT+, to navigating through the BC curriculum, the importance of the BC teaching standards and how we need to live up to these standards. We have also have had the opportunity to understand and experience Land and Place Based Learning. Here is a list of the 10 things that i gave taken away from this course.

• Land Based Learning
  • We as educators and future teachers need to realize that we can use the land for learning, and how importance it is to use the land, respect the environment around us, and how we can connect to the history and culture.
• Navigating Through the BC Curriculum
  • The British Columbia Curriculum is designed to empower both teachers and students. As we learnt in this course, we can navigate the curriculum by understanding the Core Competencies, Big Ideas and Curricular Competencies.
• SOGI Education
  • As we become future teachers, we play a crucial role in recognizing and valuing our students for who they are, and creating an inclusive and safe space.
• Indigenous Ways of Knowing (FPPL)
  • The First Peoples Principles of Learning is a foundation that values and is a guideline we must follow and respect in and outside of our classroom, and how we can emphasize holistic, and experiential approaches to learning.
• Place Based Learning
  • Place Based Learning emphasizes using local resources, like our nature surroundings but also places in the community that we can use, and to make lessons more relevant and meaningful to students. In EDUC 394 we had the opportunity to explore the Public Library and Two Rivers Art Gallery as Place Based Learning.
• The BC Teacher Standards
  • The BC Teacher Standards outlines professional expectations, emphasizing ethical conduct, and how we can foster inclusive and supportive learning. Along with showing our students that we are professionals, we must act always on ethical practices in and outside of the school.
• Lesson Planning
  • We all know becoming a teacher is a teaching and learn journey, throughout this course, we have worked really hard on creating and practicing how to make effective lesson plans that will foster each and every student.
• Inspiration from Parker Palmer
  • According to Palmer, teachers who align their inner lives (their passions, values, and identity) with their outer actions (their pedagogy and practices) create an environment of trust and inspiration. Parker has taught me how we need to “teach who you are”.
• Wise Words From Shelly Moore
  • Shelly Moore is the leading advocate and educator in inclusive education, as she lives behind the lens of “Inclusion as Mindset, Not a Place”. Her words and videos have stuck with me through out this course, and her metaphor of the 7-10 split. We can’t just work one student, we have come at both of them with a different curve or plan to get both of them.
• The Use of Aha’s and Hmm’s.
  • I really loved the idea of having a AHA moment or HMM moment, and how we can use videos and articles for our understandings and taking a quick note of an AHA and HMM moment that can help us understand.