WISE Teaching and learning practices for Indigenous elementary teachers-FR

Event date(s): October 03, 2024 - October 04, 2024
Category: Both Campuses
Location: Fredericton

The WISE Teaching Practices 2024 conference is part of a series of five online meetings for elementary Indigenous teachers designed to promote knowledge development and application (action-knowledge-transformation) of culturally grounded methodologies, to foster respectful teaching practices that contribute to children’s development and promote environmental consciousness in safeguarding Mother Earth, contributing to the UN goals for the millennium. Considering Earth as a Planetary Mother is a respectful perspective where the well-being of humans can’t be separated from the well-being and protection of Mother Earth. The Planetary-Mother initiative’s immediate goal and effects include providing a "glocal" (local and global) online forum for Indigenous teachers in training as a "seed ground" for future collaborations to share, learn and promote their culturally grounded WISE-best practices to develop children in all areas while supporting education for sustainable education at the elementary education level. This event is nestled in the Wabanaki Bachelor of Education of the Mi'kmaq-Wolastoqey Centre and the UNB Faculty of Education. It is free to participants thanks to the support of Rideau Hall Foundation's Indigenous Teacher Education Initiative, to dramatically increase the numbers of First Nation, Inuit and Metis teachers in Canada.

This series of five online yearly forums will run initially between 2024 and 2028 as a work-and-learn methodology where participants can learn and present their progress and experiences applying and adapting or creating new knowledge shared throughout the year. This conference is part of the training for the course Teaching in Cultural Contexts of the Wabanaki Bachelor of Education and the University of New Brunswick, Canada. The program aims to promote awareness of the need to meaningfully connect learners' cultural heritage, teaching practices and knowledge that can support the indivisible duality of healthy growing and a healthy Earth. Planetary-Mother is also a perspective where pedagogies, approaches and perspectives will enrich the elementary teaching field locally and globally supporting students in their processes of Indigenous identity while connecting them with local and global climate change and cultural issues.

This first Planetary-Mother WISE conference is planned for October 3, open to First Nations and other Indigenous teachers globally and October 4, only for students at the Wabanaki Bachelor of Education. 

Indigenous teachers can register here as presenters. Indigenous teachers can register here as participants.

Building: Online Event (Zoom)