My MET story.
Relationship matters the most in our classrooms. It brings our humanity into everything we do, thus creating safe learning places for our students to be themselves and to hopefully learn a thing or two along the way. Through ETEC 521, and building my venture pitch for ETEC 522, I have come to realize that without relationship building and trust, that my many of my Indigenous and non-Indigenous students will not be in a state of well-being required to learn. Although there are countless ways to foster trusting relationships with our students, storytelling is a mode that I naturally lean towards. By sharing my story with others, I extend my hands outward, possibly landing on a shoulder or two, to let them know that they are not alone; that they are not stupid; and that they have what it takes to meet their present challenge. To attempt to promote a digitized, storytelling modality, I chose a JS Timeline to present my MET artifacts. Although writing in a more formal style was a consideration, generally speaking, it does not lend itself to storytelling. There may be a sentence fragment or two and at least one YouTube Video that may make you want to raise a roof.