Students stepping up to the plate_BFH 2015

Students Stepping Up to the PlateKatie German, FoodShare Toronto

Presentation made at Bring Food home 2015

WELCOME!

- Thank you for coming! We are happy you are here

- Introductions of your facilitators

- Agenda for our session

AGENDA!- Ice breaker

- Intro to School Grown-How our program works-What we’ve learned-Writing curriculum-Questions

- Intro to The Stop

- Three Breakout Activities-Drama, Storytelling, Photos

- Regroup and Closing

ICE BREAKER!

ICE BREAKER! – 5 Questions

What do you like to cook at home for yourself?

What food would you make for someone on your first date?

What’s your favorite restaurant and why?

If you could only eat one thing for the rest of your life what would it be?

What’s a food that reminds you of your childhood?

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What We’ve Learned

Curriculum

“Education thus becomes an act of depositing, in which the students are the depositories and the teacher is the depositor.

Banking Model of Education

Worse yet, it turns them into "containers," into "receptacles" to be "filled" by the teachers. The more completely she fills the receptacles, the better a teachers she is. The more meekly the receptacles permit themselves to be filled, the better students they are.”

“it’s a lot like being an empty bucket,”

“I feel disappointed that people think that of us. I think

everyone has their own - I mean people really know a lot.

People aren’t just empty you know, they have things that

they’ve learned, from their parents, from living in this world.

We aren’t just empty.”

Writing our own curriculum is about getting the education system to see us as we see ourselves.

This is how the education system sees us:

This is how we see ourselves:

Curriculum

- Usually curriculum is written by adults

- We should be able to learn what we want to learn, not what other people think we should learn

- If students write it it gives them a chance to speak about what they want to know

- Students writing curriculum also shows that we are experts already in some things

Took this back to our schools – Katelynn’s english class

YOUTH AS CURRICULUM WRITERS

YOUTH AS CURRICULUM WRITERS

Questions about what we talked about so far?

Three Breakout Groups: 1.Drama with Gita, Katelynn & Cali2.Pictures with Katie, Deshanel & Kamaria3.Story Telling with Xuan-Yen, Kanaka & Russell

Report back on group activities.

Something you learned and something you are taking away.

Thank you! If you have more questions – talk to us at the conference

Or you can email: Katie German

[email protected]@schoolgrownTO