As a part of our Professional Inquiry Project for our Professional Semester III, we are collecting data on the following critical inquiry question: How are Alberta elementary educators applying foundational knowledge about First Nations, Métis, and Inuit peoples in their classrooms? In addition to interviewing educators at our schools, we want to extend our inquiry project to other elementary educators in Alberta through an online survey.
While many resources and information on FNMI topics are aimed at junior high and high school, we wanted to focus on how educators can integrate TQS#5 at the elementary level. This is a responsibility of all Albertan educators, not just Social Studies teachers. Recently there has been an addition to the Alberta Teaching Quality Standard: Applying Foundational Knowledge about First Nations, Métis and Inuit: 5. A teacher develops and applies foundational knowledge about First Nations, Métis and Inuit for the benefit of all students.
While many resources and information on FNMI topics are aimed at junior high and high school, we wanted to focus on how educators can integrate TQS#5 at the elementary level. This is a responsibility of all Albertan educators, not just Social Studies teachers. Recently there has been an addition to the Alberta Teaching Quality Standard: Applying Foundational Knowledge about First Nations, Métis and Inuit: 5. A teacher develops and applies foundational knowledge about First Nations, Métis and Inuit for the benefit of all students.
antonia comanda |
jazmin roe |
I am Antonia Comanda and I am a fifth-year social studies education major. With the recent change with the Alberta Teaching Quality Standards we found it difficult to find quality resources to apply foundational knowledge about FNMI peoples.
Our goal when we were curating this project was to have a website that was easy to use and accessible whenever other professionals wished to access it. We wanted to create a resource that would help teachers integrate FNMI resource to cultivate an attitude of reconciliation in their own respective classrooms. |
Hi, I'm Jazmin Roe and I'm excited to share this Professional Inquiry Project with you! I'm a fifth year social studies education major and I hope to one day be an elementary teacher in grades 4-6. Education for reconciliation is such an important topic and many elementary educators are applying knowledge about FNMI peoples.
I hope that this project helps you learn more about how to apply FNMI knowledge in your elementary classroom. All educators and students play an important role as agents of change and healing in the reconciliation process. |
"Teachers are poised to share First Nations, Metis and Inuit perspectives with their students but there's a gap in terms of accessible and quality information, teaching materials and professional learning."
- Heather Smith (Canadian Teachers’ Federation President)
- Heather Smith (Canadian Teachers’ Federation President)