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The school nurse made a special visit to my school today to teach “Family Life Education” to students in Grades 5 through 7. My Grade 5′s filed into the class with great curiosity, a curiosity that I also felt, but for rather different reasons… While they wondered about changing from children to adults, I wondered [...]
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On the Day of Pink, I read my students a children’s storybook called The Sissy Duckling by Harvey Fierstein. The tale is about a gender non-conforming duckling named Elmer who gets bullied until his feminine ways allow him to save the day, and he is transformed into a hero. My lesson consisted of brainstorming synonyms [...]
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I took a bit of a risk when I hit the ‘send’ button after typing an email message for all the teachers at my practicum school. I explained that when I began my practicum, I overheard one boy call another boy a fag. I suggested that, as part of a school-wide strategy to stop homophobic [...]
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One of the projects I have given my Grade 4/5 class is to practice and present a story through Reader’s Theatre. Today, one group of students presented their performance to the junior kindergarten class. One of the members of this performance troupe was Aaron, a boy who has apraxia – difficulty with the motor movements [...]
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Here’s what I did when one kid called another kid ‘a fag’ on the playground of my practicum school.
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