Learning to Know

Learning to Know: How does knowing relate to understanding?

Goal

Educators plan and deliver appropriate and engaging curriculum based on their understanding of historical events and current contextual realities which have impacted First Nations, Inuit, and Métis people and its effect on student learning.
  • How does knowing about historical events and current contextual realities relate to how you understand your students and communities differently?

Competency
Attributes, Skills, and Understandings
  • identify key events
Educators accurately provide interpretations that illustrate insight to historical events.
  • draw and support conclusions
Educators thoroughly analyze historical events, examine relevant evidence, draw insightful conclusions and make perceptive assessments.
  • explain historical context
Educators analyze the issue with a clear sense of scope and context, fully considering pertinent political, economic, and social factors.

Self-Assessment

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As a community member, I contribute to creating a relational space where learners are empowered to achieve success by…
  • accurately providing interpretations that illustrate insight to historical events and current contextual realities
  • analyzing historical events and current contextual realities, examining relevant evidence, drawing insightful conclusions and making perceptive assessments
  • analyzing the issue with a clear sense of scope and context, fully considering pertinent political, economic, and social factors


Foundational Documents and Resources




  
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Brain Architecture Game
Facilitator Guide Brain Architecture Game 


   
   

Sample Strategic Pathways
  • attending professional learning opportunities which introduce resources such as the ARPDC Moodle, Our Way is a Valid Way Professional Educator Resource (WNCP),  Walking Together Digital Resource
  • seeking new resources from regional educational institutions, museums, cultural centres, and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
  • reviewing resources in consultation with First Nations, Métis, and Inuit community
  • sharing and disseminating information to professional learning communities regionally and provincially
  • sharing insights on  present day educational issues in relation to First Nations, Métis, and Inuit historical events
  • addressing the spiritual, physical, emotional, and mental impacts of events on First Nations, Métis, and Inuit students today

Success

Educators will be able to independently use their learning to evaluate historical events and plan and deliver curricular programming to demonstrate an understanding of the connections between past events and present effects on First Nations, Métis, and Inuit student learning.

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