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IDENTIFYING "BEST" ABORIGINAL STUDIES TEACHERS
We have started our Teachers Teach Teachers (TTT) Best Practices research -- by asking more than 50 elementary and secondary teachers and Aboriginal educators across Canada this one question:
"What is one thing you do in your classroom
to ensure the presentation of Aboriginal perspectives
in the curriculum?"
On "Other Projects" you can find out more about the TTT Best Practices research. Below are some of the interesting answers we have received to this question so far.
From Carol Scott, Canadian elementary teacher in Ottawa:
The students in our grade 5 class sit facing the blackboard in 4 groups which we call "East" "South", "West" and "North". We use this for group work, points for good choices, and as regular reference to the teachings of the Medicine Wheel. The students are taught that this is an aboriginal teaching and the space in the centre is for sitting in circle when we want important discussion or to honour someone. We use a talking stick and no hierarchy when we sit in circle. We also try to do things by consensus as much as possible. All these ways are presented as aboriginal in source. The stars below represent the format of where the students sit:
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(contact Carol through CAAS)
- From Orien Corbiere, in his final year of teacher's college, hoping to graduate Spring 2001 in the intermediate/senior division:
In my practicum I am implementing a curriculum which speaks from an Aboriginal perspective. For example, we are taking an experiential approach to teaching archeology. First we establish some knowledge of the subject then we begin to assemble tools, personnel and an excavation site and go through the procedure. An important item: the roles are reversed: we will do archeological studies on western European writers, scientists and leaders. I include Aboriginal awareness, perspectives, epistemology and worldviews in my educational philosophy and for that reason, language is an essential component. I believe language and Aboriginal studies are interdisciplinary.
Baamaa pii miinwaa, Orien Corbiere
(contact Orien through CAAS)
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