Infusing Aboriginal Content and Perspectives

Into Your Teaching Practice

At OISE, we encourage all of our teacher candidates, graduates, and researchers to actively acknowledge the importance of the First Peoples of Turtle Island and to teach about their histories, cultures and perspectives to all students.  This section contains resources to help you infuse your practice with the perspectives of Aboriginal populations.

Nathan Goold - Teacher Candidate on Infusing Aboriginal Content and Perspectives

Click here for Nathan's lesson plan.

Resources

Aboriginal Themed Lesson Plans

Incorporating Indigenous lesson planning from K-12 on a variety of topics.  This site includes some French language lessons on treaties aimed at K-3 that might be useful for Core French at the I Level.

Indigenous, Immigrant, Inclusive:  Three Perspectives on Diversity

by Melinda M. Smith, Jan. 18, 2011.

The author looks at what diversity means through an indigenous lens as compared to an immigrant lens (the two I's of diversity in Canada).