Category: History 3510- Research projects

My life goal is to become a teacher. It all started when I was little but as time went on I strived for that goal for many more reasons than  “I like being around kids”. As I went though school I always found that because of my race teachers treated me different, and some times I was even treated different because of my gender. I didn’t like this feeling it made me feel like I was doing something wrong but I couldn’t even change it because that was just the way I was born. Sometimes this cultural and gender discrimination made me want to give up and not do what I was able to do, but then something changed and it made me want to prove that I could be better than they thought I was. I wanted to prove that I could be as strong as the boys or as smart as the white kids and it made me realize something more. I realized it wasn’t just me who went though this it was the other first nations students who did too, unfortunately they didn’t want to prove they were better they just accepted that they would never be seen as the number one student. This made me want to teach so no other student had to go though what I went though, I wanted to raise the expectation for not only First Nations students but all students. I also wanted to bring awareness to all about what this discrimination does to students. But to bring awareness you have to trace where this idea came from and how often it happens to prove that it wasn’t just one time, it is a continuous problem. So I did some research, I took my own personal experiences and others as well and showed how this is an ongoing problem. I wrote a paper on it to show readers the problem, if you click the link you can learn more about what I had to say on this problem.

Hist3510- Research Project