http://projectofheart.ca//wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Education-Resources_K_2_FINAL.pdf 6), Stereotypes by Numbers: Investigating and Graphing the Representations of First Nations, Inuit, and Metis Peoples in School Library Materials (Gr.
A Welcome to Country is a protocol where Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Traditional Owners welcome others to the land of their ancestors. Students gain ‘metres’ on a virtual field for their attendance, work ethic and behaviour. 20 minutes). Learning First Peoples Classroom Resources, Indigenous Education K-12 In remote communities many Aboriginal kids are not taught values at home.
Good contextual discussion of First Nations education and some of the issues surrounding it, and includes links to other good resources as well: all in all, a great resource. “It’s very easy to say I want to have a culturally responsive classroom but to know what that looks like was a bit more difficult than I thought,” admits Will Lutwyche who taught Aboriginal kids for 2 years in remote Tennant Creek, NT. Teaching both worlds might be the answer to these problems.
3-6) The Learning Circle: Five Voices of Aboriginal Youth in Canada (Gr. When teachers misdiagnose Aboriginal students’ classroom behaviour we can speak of ‘soft racism’. Half of students with access to more than 100 books scored “proficient” in reading, compared with less than 15% of students with access to fewer books. Curriculum Connections: Metis (2004) (Gr. Aboriginal Stories. Stress Free – How To Thrive Under Pressure In Unprecedented Times provides principals, teachers, parents and students with powerful tools and insights to alleviate stress and break the negative cycles and limiting beliefs that so frequently hold us back.
Aboriginal Languages in Canada (various grades). Because the UBC Library's system for classifying materials is aimed at organizing research and scholarship, searching for curriculum materials can be difficult. This site includes two detailed lesson plans for grades 3-6 about First Nations in Canada and takes a game-based learning approach. We need to put healing into the curriculum.—Prof Judy Atkinson, head of Gnibi College of Indigenous Australian Peoples [12]. They engaged well with it and started to reflect deeply and use critical thinking, which is not always easy to do without relevant content.” [1]. 3-6) Many have emotional problems that materialise when they reach their mid-teens. The Acknowledgement of Traditional Owners and Elders differs from a Welcome to Country in that it can be delivered by both Indigenous and non-Indigenous people. Only when children accommodated both western and traditional Aboriginal culture would they be able to build their socio-economic strengths and maintain, revive and re-double the strength of their cultural determination, Mr Pearson said. “Most people would have looked at an Aboriginal girl from the Territory, with its statistics of alcohol abuse, youth suicide, domestic violence, imprisonment rates and substandard education, and point to every reason why I should not succeed. What Can I Contribute to Meaningful Reconciliation? Indigenous Children's Literature He learned that in order to engage his students he had to bring local stories into the classroom. “Classmates who were straight-A students were never told they couldn’t do medicine. “Likewise, I could not imagine teaching English to Aboriginal communities in Australia, without knowing anything about their culture, language and what makes them tick, even if I have lived in Australia all my life and also lived up north in Darwin for many years.”. (Video runs for approx. “We’re all about student gain.