D BAUTISTA- Teaching the Teacher

Next steps? (As of August 12th, 2016)

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With September fast approaching, I will be taking a break from classroom teaching. I’m keen on expanding my knowledge and experience within and beyond the education sector, and am looking forward to enjoying work in curriculum design or education policy writing and implementation. As a little girl, I always wanted to become a teacher. But the closer I got to being a teacher, the more I wanted to explore the education sector and its intersections. In the last year, my classroom education has been supplemented with community-based education. Together, the…read more

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Lessons learned (as of August 1, 2016)

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Just a quick post on some of the lessons I’ve learned this past year! Some many of the little lessons build into larger themes and teachable moments.  And I’m sure I’ll be learning many more along the way! Theory vs Practice Earlier in the school year,  I was particularly compelled to pursue this topic/ question: How can educators effectively engage themselves and their students in respectful practice in the classroom- an environment with varying power dynamics? Click here to review the scholarly articles that I reviewed on the topic, or here: https://blogs.ubc.ca/inquirydbautista/the-research/Having completed this…read more

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Community Field Experience Post 3

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Post dated from May 10!   This particular reflection comes after 2 weeks of participating at my CFE at LFA. Having been placed at a school as opposed to a non- school setting still has been an opportunity to learn and observe the differences between public and private school systems. I’m very aware that LFA doesn’t reflect all private school experiences, but its faith-based girls-only community is distinct from any other school in Vancouver. Having taught a handful of classes at this school and comparing back to my practicum experience,…read more

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Community Field Experience Week 2

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Week 2: May 2- 6, 2016   This past week at LFA I was grateful to participate on the Holocaust Symposium fieldtrip with the History 12 students at UBC on Tuesday May 3. We spent the day on campus listening to speakers: those who work with Holocaust educational programming, Holocaust historians, and Holocaust survivors themselves. The conference itself spans 2 days, and that’s hardly enough to begin uncovering such a tragically devastating and impactful history. During my time at my practicum school, I was fortunate to be able to coordinate…read more

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Community Field Experience Week 1

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Week 1: April 25- 29, 2016 For my CFE placement, I will be spending the next couple weeks at my alma mater, Little Flower Academy. As I drove in Monday morning, I experienced a large dose of deja vu, but also a hint of nerves returning to the place where I went to high school, this time not as a student! I continue to be grateful to the faculty and staff who extended a warm welcome back, of course without joking about how I shouldn’t be in the staff room…read more

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conversations about intersecting and other-ed histories: Cedar & Bamboo

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I’ve been meaning to write about this particular lesson I had with my Socials 10 class, and attending Chinese Canadian Historical Society’s public lecture hosted by Dr. Henry Yu and Sarah Ling about the Fraser River, Chinese migration and intersections with First Nations histories prompted more mental connections! As I’ve been documenting my experiences inside the English/ Socials classroom, I’ve always been conscious about bringing in my own interests to hopefully complement the curriculum. Having a handful of classes to teach a mini-unit on Immigration to BC has been a blessing with its…read more

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a visit to Chinatown, Strathcona, Hogan’s Alley, and Gastown with Socials 10

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**NB: A long post, because while I can say a lot, these students’ insights are much better! Last Friday, April 8th, our socials 10 class had the opportunity to spend a beautifully sunny day down in Vancouver’s Chinatown, Strathcona, Hogan’s Alley, and Gastown. For a lot of students, they remarked that this was their first time in any of these places. I forget that a lot students who are born and bred in Richmond, quite often only stick to Richmond! So while the fieldtrip was organized to visit various neighbourhoods,…read more

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conversations on gaps in historical significance

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Why do we study the things that we study? So many years spent griping about content in our textbooks/ curriculum about being boring and useless and ‘how is knowing how to plot the inverse of cosine going to help me with my taxes in the future??’.. I remember those days! Needless to say, it wasn’t too shocking when the same textbook students are using now was the one that I used when I was in social studies 10. The curriculum, however, in draft form, opens up an opportunity to delve a…read more

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