Advisory board set up. (Education).A 13-member national working group on First Nation education was unveiled by the Minister of Indian Affairs on June 17. Robert Nault made the move, he said, to ensure First Nations children have the same opportunities and quality of life that many Canadians enjoy. The Minister's National Working Group on Education will look at how to "foster excellence in First Nation education and help narrow the unacceptable gap in academic results between First Nations students and other Canadian students," a government press release stated. It's a move that will be welcomed by many First Nation parents who have long feared that INAC INAC Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (government) INAC Instituto Nacional de Aviación Civil (Spanish) INAC Instituto Nacional de Carnes (Spanish: National Meat Institute, Uruguay) education systems lag far behind provincial systems. The group will review issues such as the development of First Nations education capacity, teacher recruitment/retention and professional development, Aboriginal content in curriculum (culture and language), pedagogy and standards, increased parental involvement and national education instruments. The minister said the group will have a budget of just over a million dollars and has been asked to file an interim report in the fall and a final report by Christmas. Nault told Windspeaker the goal of this exercise is to "improve student outcomes." "The advice of the national working group will help us to move forward in very real ways," Nault said. "Immediate action must be taken on a number of fronts because improving First Nation education today means a better future for all Canadians tomorrow." Canada will spend $947 million in 2002-2003 for the provision of elementary and secondary education needs of approximately 120,000 First Nation students. Members of the group are: Deborah Jeffrey (co-chair), is president of the Tsimshian Tribal Council and holds a Bachelor of Education A Bachelor of Education (BEd) is an undergraduate academic degree which qualifies the graduate as a teacher in schools. North America In North America the degree is awarded for courses taken that generally last two years (one year in some Canadian universities). from UBC UBC Uniform Building Code UBC University of British Columbia UBC Union of the Baltic Cities UBC United Brotherhood of Carpenters UBC Universal Battery Charger UBC Union of Baltic Cities UBC Universal Bibliographic Control UBC Used Beverage Cans in 1983 and-received her Masters Degree in Education from Simon Fraser University Simon Fraser University, main campus at Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada; provincially supported; coeducational; chartered 1963, opened 1965. The Harbour Centre campus in downtown Vancouver opened in 1989. in 1996. Corinne Mount Pleasant-Jette (co-chair) is presently an assistant professor at Concordia University. She is the founder and director of NAEP NAEP National Assessment of Educational Progress NAEP National Association of Environmental Professionals NAEP National Association of Educational Progress NAEP National Agricultural Extension Policy NAEP Native American Employment Program , the Native Access to Engineering Program. Dr. Phyllis Cardinal, who is the principal of Amiskwacity Academy, an Aboriginal high school in Edmonton. Terry Fortin is the past chief superintendent of the Edmonton Catholic School Board. Gordon Martell is a Saskatoon Saskatoon (săskət  n`), city (1991 pop. 186,058), S central Sask., Canada, on the South Saskatchewan River. teacher and vice principal He
returned to the University of Saskatchewan The University of Saskatchewan (U of S) is a coeducational public research university located on the east side of the South Saskatchewan River in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. The University is celebrating its centennial year in 2007. where he earned his
Master's degree in the Indian and Northern Education Program.
Kenneth Paupanekis is currently a full-time assistant professor at Brandon University specializing in Native Affairs. His master's of Education is from the University of Manitoba Location The main Fort Garry campus is a complex on the Red River in south Winnipeg. It has an area of 2.74 square kilometres. More than 60 major buildings support the teaching and research programs of the university. . Laura Horton is the director, post secondary education programs at Seven Generations Education Institute in Ontario. Robert Beaudin has extensive teaching experience at the elementary and secondary school levels with federal, provincial and First Nation authorities. Presently he is the executive director of Kenjgewin Teg Educational Institute situated on Manitoulin Island. Edna Mason is currently the education administrator for the Kitasso Community School at Kelmptu, B.C. Harry Lafond is interim president of the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations' Indigenous Governance Institute. A former chief, he is presently working for the Muskeg mus·keg also mas·keg n. A swamp or bog formed by an accumulation of sphagnum moss, leaves, and decayed matter resembling peat. [Cree maskek. Lake Cree Nation as their education director. Gilbert Whiteduck has been in the field of First Nation education for close to 29 years. He was elected a year ago as the first First Nation person in Quebec to chair a CEGEP CEGEP Collège d'Enseignement Général et Professionnel (French) (community college) board of governors. Darren Googoo is the director of education for the Membertou First Nation (Nova Scotia). Lucy Jackson is chair of Sahtu board of education in the N.W.T. |
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