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After being ridiculed in front of my entire teacher education cohort for using my male name, today I stood up for myself by addressing my class. The night before, when everyone else was writing their philosophies of education and e-folio reflections, I was preparing my speech and being plagued by ‘what ifs.’ What if a [...]
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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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The discussions about social justice in my tutorial have been getting pretty heated. People are getting downright emotional. Things are getting seriously personal. Nobody feels quite comfortable. And it must be interfering with the educative process. Enter my tutorial instructor with the rational solution – a presentation on dialogue (or rather, on how to conduct [...]
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A look at how one balances one’s own needs with the need to change the world.
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Here’s what happened the day one of my fellow classmates asked me to defend “my gay agenda.”
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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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