NEXT STEPS

As next steps in my journey of learning and becoming an educator, I want to learn more about Indigenous perspectives, their knowledge and the issues they are facing on their own land. 

In my first practicum in Redstone Public School in Richmond Hill, I did the Science unit on Water Systems in Ontario. I was quite surprised to read the science curriculum. The science curriculum has recently been updated and Indigenous knowledge on Water is focused in the unit but there is no mention about the clean water issues faced by Indigenous people. 

Being an immigrant, I always thought that North America is the land of White people. When the Kamloops news came out in 2020, I was very surprised to learn about the residential schools and that the land we are on is the rightful property of Indigenous people. 

As an educator who is new to this country and learning about it, I feel that it is my responsibility to bring forward this fact among the students and their families that Canada is the land of Indigenous People and we are on their Land. I believe it to be my strategy to stand with the Indigenous People. 

I am looking forward for opportunity to learn more about the Indigenous groups so that I can educate the students and their families( who are mostly immigrants like me) about the truth. 

Below is my lesson prepared on water issues faced by Indigenous people. The specific expectation is to study watersheds but I approached it with the Indigenous lens