weaving ways
Type of Resource: Professional Literature
Description: The Weaving Ways is an introductory guide to support teachers in considering how Indigenous knowledge systems can support a rich experiences for students in their classrooms. With an invitation to teachers to be mindful of Indigenous ways of knowing within current practices, Weaving Ways guides teacher exploration of the histories, cultures, languages, and contributions, perspectives, experiences, and contemporary contexts of FNMI peoples while engendering an environement of belonging for all. |
Our Way is a valid way
Type of Resource: Professional Literature
Description: This resource is intended to inhance all teachers' understanding of the diverse FNMI traditions, values, and attitudes, and the historical and contemporary realities of FNMI peoples in western and northern Canada. |
Assembly of first nations toolkit
Type of Resource: Professional Literature & Podcast
Description: The Assembly of First Nations has developed the It's Our Time First Nations Tool Kit as the basis of a comprehensive strategy to reach out to First Nations students, teachers, schools, communities and the Canadian public at large. The resource is designed to bring together First Nations and non-First Nations people and foster a spirit of cooperation, understanding, and action. This resource features Plain Talks about different FNMI topics such as treaties, residential schools, and cultural competency. |
Education is our buffalo
Type of Resource: Professional Literature
Description: This document gives an overview of the groups of FNMI people living in Alberta, as well as their traditional territories and where they live now. The authors of this document outline serveral cultural traditions of the FNMI people living in Alberta, as well as tips for teachers who may want to have a similar ceremony in their classroom. It also includes a history of FNMI education in Alberta, and discusses the impacts of residential schools on today's students. This resource concludes with common misconceptions about FNMI peoples and refutes these assumptions. |
our words, our ways
Type of Resource: Professional Literature
Description: This resource will help classroom teachers and staff better serve the needs of First Nations, Métis and Inuit students. |
incorporating aboriginal perspectives into the elementary curriculum document
Type of Resource: Professional Literature
Description: Provides teachers with background information and describes effective practices to support Aboriginal perspectives within the Alberta Social Studies Program of Studies. |