Workshops
F1. Dr. Lee Brown: Emotional Education: the development of emotional competency in the classroom
Lee has developed a theory of holistic emotional education that is predicated upon six principles of emotional competency that arise out of his research in the area of affective education and learning. Lee also facilitates the annual Emotional Education Conference and is a co-founder of the Global Emotional Education Association. Lee is published in Academic Journals on the subject of Emotional Education including the Canadian Journal of Native Education and AlterNative: A New Zealand International Journal of Indigenous Scholarship. Lee was the guest editor of the UBC Educational Leadership Journal in March of 2007.
F2. Dr. Lorna Williams: Learning and teaching in an Indigenous World: considerations for Teacher development Curriculum development
This presentation will explore the challenges and opportunities of making space, finding place and locating Indigenous knowledge in teacher preparation programs, teacher development, curriculum and program development.
F3. Nathan Matthews: Challenges and Opportunities in Aboriginal Education
A presentation on the nature of the challenges faced by Aboriginal learners in public education and the opportunities for effective responses by education practitioners.
F4. Dr. Jo–Anne Archibald: Indigenous Storywork: Educating the Heart, Mind, Body, and Spirit
Jo-Ann Archibald worked closely with Elders and storytellers, who shared both traditional and personal life- experience stories, in order to develop ways of bringing storytelling into educational contexts. Indigenous Storywork is the result of this research and it demonstrates how stories have the power to educate and heal the heart, mind, body, and spirit. It builds on the seven principles of respect, responsibility, reciprocity, reverence, holism, interrelatedness, and synergy that form a framework for understanding the characteristics of stories, appreciating the process of storytelling, establishing a receptive learning context, and engaging in holistic meaning-making.
F5. Sue Gower: It’s All about Vocabulary Development
Chalo School is a band operated facility situated on the Ft. Nelson First Nations reserve in northern B.C. It has been recently recognized in Ottawa as a role model for the country due to high student achievement. Participants at this session will learn about strategies that have led to Chalo’s success including a learning focus on vocabulary development, the improvement of building relationships, and innovative ways to structure a school day. This workshop will focus on the following themes:
- Creating an environment for literacy instruction
- Visual learning strategies
- Effective questioning techniques
- How to integrate Brain Learning Theory into your lessons
- Grouping for instruction
- Measuring student growth
- Involving the Community to support literacy