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This guide addresses the following Core Competencies:
This guide addresses the following First People's Principles of Learning:
Learning ultimately supports the well-being of the self, the family, the community, the land, the spirits and the ancestors.
Learning involves recognizing the consequences of one's actions.
Learning requires exploration of one's identity.
Learning is holistic, reflexive, reflective, experiential and relational (focused on connectedness, on reciprocal relationships, and a sense of place).
This guide addresses the following curriculum areas:
Ways to use this guide:
This guide addresses the following Dakelh Holistic Lifelong Learning Model areas:
Impacts on Protocol
Impacts on Land & Experiential Learning
Impacts on Language
Like the core competencies the Dakelh Holistic Lifelong Learning Model is a central strand to curriculum within School District 57. The planning guide is a reminder for teachers to use the model as a teaching lens when planning their lessons. They should ask themselves how they can incorporate these concepts into their lesson and do the research to ensure these concepts and practices are included. This includes explicitly reminding students when they are used to raise students' awareness of these considerations.
So when planning a lesson a key question would be what, where and how can/should I incorporate Protocol, Land & Experiential Learning and Language into the lesson. As well, how can I weave in the Dakelh Ways of Knowing and Enduring Understandings (Values) into day-to-day practice. It's important to recognize that it is all interconnected and we don't necessarily need to focus on all of them (just like the core competencies) but start with one, two or three etc. Bringing light to, naming, and consciously considering the Dakelh perspective is part of the process and gives us time to reflect, build relationships and develop these competencies.
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