Lesson 8
| Women and Labour
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Learning from Labour |
Intermediate ETFO Resource
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www.etfo.ca
History of Women in Education
Historica Canada. http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/
article/women-and-education/. International Women’s Day.
http://rabble.ca/toolkit/on-this-day/international-womens-day
Profile of Mary Ann Shadd. Retrieved July 11, 2015 from
Historica Canada. http://blackhistorycanada.ca/profiles.
php?themeid=20&id=5
Women in the Labour Force. Retrieved July 13, 2015 from http://
www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/women-in-the-
labour-force/. This address provides additional perspectives and
links to women and work in Canada.
International Women’s Day. Retrieved July 13, 2015 http://rabble.
ca/toolkit/on-this-day/international-womens-day
Materials
Chart paper and sticky notes for Think Pair Share activity
Access to a computer for viewing websites
Learning Goal(s)
The Learning Goals are the Overall/Specific Expectations written in student friendly
language for students to access (post onto chart paper and review with students)
I can understand the ways some Canadian rights and freedoms are a result of the struggles of women in the past. I can understand how
their actions impact me today.
I can learn from the ways in which women met challenges in the past. I can learn what individual and collective agency women
(individuals, groups and family members) had to demonstrate to meet their needs. I can think of ways I can meet similar challenges in
the future.
Implementation
Task Component
Instruction
Assessment Focus
Look Fors
Notes for Teachers
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Before
(Activation/Review)
15 minutes
Ask students to reflect on the
expectations that they have for
themselves in terms of their future
career paths and educational
goals.
Is there a difference between what
the boys and the girls in the class
expect to do?
Assessment for Learning
During the Activation/Review
activity, most students should
be able to clearly articulate a few
of the plans that they have for
their future in terms of career and
education.
Some students may have difficulty
thinking about how gender roles
often shape, and sometimes limit,
our future choices.
It is easy for children and youth
to assume that progress always
moves ‘up’; or that the rights and
working expectations female
citizens enjoy today have been in
place for a long time. But neither
are true.
Sometimes progress does not
follow a linear progression.