LEARNING TOGETHER CULTIVATING SUCCESS BY FOSTERING A SENSE OF BELONGING

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LEARNING TOGETHER CULTIVATING SUCCESS BY FOSTERING A SENSE OF BELONGING Diane Wishart University of Alberta

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LEARNING TOGETHER CULTIVATING SUCCESS BY FOSTERING A SENSE OF BELONGING. Diane Wishart University of Alberta. youth and their teachers. Reframing conceptions of teaching Coming to awareness of learning from students. Did u hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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LEARNING TOGETHERCULTIVATING SUCCESS BY FOSTERING A

SENSE OF BELONGING

Diane WishartUniversity of Alberta

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youth and their teachers•Reframing conceptions of teaching

•Coming to awareness of learning from students

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Did u hear about the rose that grew from a crack

in the concreteProving nature’s laws wrong it

learned 2 walkwithout having feet

Funny it seems but by keeping its dreams

it learned 2 breathe fresh airLong live the rose that grew

from concretewhen no one else even cared!

 —Tupac Shakur (1999)

 

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Comfort that eludes for disenfranchised urban

Aboriginal youthSeparate programs with cultural

underpinnings and/or meeting needs in public schools

Voicecomfort

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When I was in [public] high school, the teachers they’re not friendly

I had some pretty bad experiences because all the schools I went to, if you weren’t like a certain type of person then nobody liked you and you got picked on

I didn’t like the way I was being treated, that’s all

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Comfort in an alternative program Teachers here don’t look at you as a

student, they look at you as a person and a student so they treat you like both… you can call teachers by their first names here, which is also a sign of respect, too, in a way

The students or the other people are easy to get along with and they accept you

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Model of schooling

•Listening to students•Understanding circumstance

•Reflecting on my role•Building trust

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Creating the conditions for learning

•Comfort, coffee, conversation

•Community building•flexibility

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Labeling

•Special needs coding and the

realities of street life

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Success

•Alternative definitions

•Often achieved slowly and

incrementally

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