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Best Practices in Including Aboriginal Peoples in the Curriculum

 

TDSB Best Practices

The Toronto District School Board (TDSB) provides an informative document that outlines best practices when infusing Aboriginal content into your program. 

 

Criteria for Identifying Bias

An outline of criteria that may be employed to identify forms of bias when analyzing the content of instructional material.

 

 

Integrating Aboriginal Teaching and Values into the Classroom

Research Monograph #11, by Dr. Pamela Toulouse

This monograph is part of the research-into-practice series produced by a partnership between The Literacy and Numeracy Secretariat and the Ontario Association of Deans of Education.  It discusses how schools can support Aboriginal education.

 

Teaching Indigenous Literature

Notes on how to assess, select and teach indigenous literature.

 

American Indians in Children's Literature (AICL)

From the site:  "American Indians in Children's Literature (AICL) provides critical perspectives and analysis of indigenous peoples in children's and young adult books, the school curriculum, popular culture, and society."

 

Oyate Criteria for Evaluating Books

The Oyate website offers a comprehensive list of criteria for evaluating literature resources for use in classrooms, both within and without an Aboriginal Education context.  This list is a companion piece to the book "How To Tell The Difference: A Guide to Evalutating Children's Books for Anti-Indian Bias", which includes a list of criteria for evaluating anti-Indian bias on the book website.

 

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