How to use this school page:

 

• This is the page to introduce yourselves to the other groups/classes in your Learning Circle and post all your challenge contributions. 
  

• Please see the page 'Background information' for detailed information. 

 

Giving and receiving feedback:

 

• On this school page you'll find text boxes for the feedback from the other groups in your Circle.
  We ask you to give each school feedback on their work and contributions. 

• If you want to give a brief remark to a group, please use the comment box at the bottom of the school page.

 

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Introduction:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1E0awba0x6YkV0Qw-x_z_KtHDSzhXJb95MgU5tH_16_0/edit?usp=sharing

 

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Contributions Challenges:

 

We chose this Challenge:

Challenge 3 - The Right to Education

 

And these assignments:

Assignment 1: Comparison and statements

Assignment 2: Design your own school

 

Our learning goals are:

Our learning goals are to identify the similarities and differences between two systems of education, Federal and Provincial, within our country. Although the assignment called for comparing school systems of different countries, we felt it necessary to learn about schools on indigenous reserves, which we knew little about before this project. 

We hope to learn and improve the dialogue of children's rights to safe and equitable education in Canada and around the world.

 

Our success criteria are:

We hope to acquire and share new knowledge which will help build a better future for all citizens by empowering ourselves and others. We hope to exchange questions and ideas with our Global Classroom.  

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Evaluation:

 

Part 1

We researched facts about our First Nations, Inuit and Métis populations in Canada.
We wanted to better understand the realities many of our neighbours are faced with.

After each team did their research on an individual subject, we each came up with ways we could try to improve things. 

 

First, we wanted to find our how many Indigenous people there are in Canada. These statistics show those who self identify as First Nation, Inuit or Métis. There are most likely more who have not identified for various reasons. 

 

Next we wanted to see the rates of Indigenous Child Poverty compared to non-Indigenous Child Poverty.

There is a big difference!

 

 

We researched the two educational systems, Provincial and Federal. We found that the Provincial government gives more money to schools than the Federal Government, Which means children going to on Reserve schools get less funding. This means they don't always have access to tools like computers, textbooks or even a safe school environment. 

 

 

This led us to find out about education rates. What were the levels of education attained by Indigenous people compared to non-indigenous people? Could everything we have seen so far be connected?

 

 

Finally, we researched the employment gap between Indigenous people and non-indigenous people. There were various reasons for this, like language barriers, educational discrepancies between levels of education attained on a federal level compared to a provincial level, and just plain discrimination.

Even with the same levels of education, we discovered that non-indigenous people were more likely to be hired than Indigenous people. 

 

 

 

We noticed there was a cycle to these issues. Talking about it as a class, we discussed how these gaps in opportunity were passed down from parents to children, becoming an intergenerational issue. We want to keep the conversation honest and open. We want to see change. We want our government to work with the Indigenous communities of this country and to make things right.

We want all children to be equal!

 

 

Part 2

We wanted to show what we think all Canadian schools, including those on reserves, should be like by the year 2020.

We hope all children can benefit from safe and equal education. These are our visions for our growing communities. 

 

 

 

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