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ABQ Intermediate First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Studies (Queen’s, Winter 2024, Online)

January 22, 2024 to April 5, 2024

  • Category: ABQ, Online
  • Region: Central Ontario, Eastern Ontario, GTA, Northern Ontario, Outside Ontario, Southern Ontario
  • Topic: Indigenous Education, Native Studies
  • Grades: Intermediate (grades 7-10)

This course will focus on providing candidates with an increasing awareness and understanding of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit people in Canada and the existing diversity of their history, culture, and worldview. By gaining an awareness of their historical experiences and traditional beliefs and values, candidates have opportunity to acquire an understanding necessary to better integrate First Nations, Métis, and Inuit content addressing traditional and contemporary issues at the local, regional, and national levels into subject areas.

Providing candidates with knowledge, skills, and attitudes to teach First Nations, Métis, and Inuit courses and identify relevant and appropriate classroom materials and community resources. This course will also provide candidates an opportunity to develop curriculum units specific to First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Studies and engage in online discussions with colleagues.

In this course you will learn about:

– Diversity of nations and worldview differences
– Residential School legislation and its effects
– First Nations, Métis, and Inuit pedagogy
– Traditional curriculum models and First Nations, Métis, and Inuit frameworks
– New initiatives
– First Nations, Métis, and Inuit issues and effects on education
– Spiritual foundations
– The importance of the treaty and land relationships
– The impact of a culturally-relevant classroom environment
– The role of Elders and other Human Resources in the classroom
– Selecting relevant and appropriate materials and resources
– Curriculum gaps and integrating content in other subject areas
– Creating lessons and assignments that will increase awareness
– Applying assessment and evaluation strategies to First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Studies
– Traditional theories of respect, responsibility, reciprocity, and relevance
– The contributions of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit people
– Re-building, renewal, and revitalization initiatives by First Nations, Métis, and Inuit people today

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