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ABORIGINAL ALBERTA 81The Edmonton Sunn Thursday, June 21,
2012
Since 1670, the Ruperts Land territory has held the
pulse of Canadian industry, and the Mtis people were
among the catalysts that drove its success. In 2010
the Rupertsland Institute was created to reinvigorate
that legacy of labour and achievement born over
300 years ago.
Mtis people: a history of fostering excellence in
achievement
Rupertsland Institute: a mission of fostering excellence in Mtis
people.
RupertslandInstituteMtis Centre of Excellence
Mtis Training to Employment Services is here to help you get
ahead of
the future. Whatever your needs are, weve got a program to
assist you.
For more information on our:
Post Secondary Funding
Scholarships and Bursaries
Apprenticeship Programs
Training Programs
Disability Services
Job Postings And More
Visit us on the web, or call to be connected to the MTES
Office
nearest you.
1-888-48-MTIS(1-888-486-3847)
Online at:
www.metisemployment.ca
Funded in part by the Government of Canada.
Cafeteria (60 seats) hotand cold food and beverages(open May to
October,catering available for pre-booked groups)
Theatre (80 seats) featuringa re-enactment of a bualohunt. The
movie, Piskun (TheBualo Jump), is a dramaticdepiction of just how
thebualo were lured to theedge of the cli, and thenstampeded
over.
Gift Shop Native artsand crafts, bookstore andsouvenir items
Certied Visitor InformationCentre
Shuttle bus service availableduring peak season and forspecial
events
Guided tours andinterpretive programs
Parking for motor coaches,RVs and overlength vehicles
WhAT yOuLL fINd AT
hEAd-smAshEd-INBuffALO jump
he Grande YellowheadPublic School Division plansto have
Aboriginal culture takeon a larger presence in school
curricula next all.he change comes in theorm o a collection o
50books about First Nations,Metis and Inuit peoples that
will be sent to each o the divi-sions schools. Each litera-ture
box also contains a guideto help teachers incorporatethe material
into classroominstruction.
Te collection o ction andnon-ction books is the resulto studies
conducted by theEdmonton Regional Learn-ing Consortium in
partnership
with Albertas school divisions,and the literature boxes ollowthe
provincial governmentsnew emphasis on incorporat-ing the
perspectives o nativecultures into public educa-tion.
Oten what youve seenin the past is a very westernperspective
around teachinga topic, said Sharon Styles,supervisor o learning
serv-ices, curriculum and instruc-
tion or Grande Yellowhead.First Nations perspectives are
very diferent; they believe thatthe world is much more
holis-tic, that what we do here per-meates through many areas.
A teacher in the school divi-sion is currently being trainedin
the Aboriginal material tohelp guide other educatorsthrough the
lesson plans.
Shell provide ongoingsupport throu ghout the ye ar,explained
Styles. I theres asocial studies topic around theInuit, there might
be a bookthat is specically around that.hen they would develop
les-son plans that would walk youthrough how you would usethis in
your lesson.
he new material will alsobe introduced to languagearts, math and
science classes.Styles oresees the books hav-ing a signiicant eect
on sci-ence lessons by bringingconcepts to students with abroader
ecological perspec-tive.
Oten we think about thingsin isolation, whereas a FirstNations
perspective would askus to look at the big broad pic-ture, that ...
all living creatures
on this earth have a signicantrole to play.
Alb er ta Edu cat ion hop esthat introducing such mate-rial into
school curricula willtranslate into better educa-
tional results or Aborigi-nal students. Grande Yel-lowheads 2011
educationalresults show that only 51% o
Abo ri gin al stu de nts gra du-ated rom high school withinthe
standard three-year timeperiod, compared to the 75%divisional
average. On Provin-cial Achievement ests 64%o Aboriginal students
scoreda ccepta ble m a rk s 1 5 %lower than the divisional aver-age
result on the standardizedtests.
We do know that studentsdo need to see themselves inthe school;
they need to berepresented in texts that arebrought to the
classroom,Styles said. Just walk down aschool hallway and look at
theposters and the artwork. FNMI[First Nations, Metis and
Inuit]culture should be relectedthere so that students cantake
pride in who they are andcan see that their cultures areimportant
as well.
QmI Agenc
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