Learning

Objectives
Resources and
Strategies
Types of Evidence of
achievement
Criteria to validate
objectives achieved
-Describe historical
events from the
perspective of the
First Nations
Canadians

















-Identify some of the
cultural barriers
facing First Nations
Canadians
Will utilize the Ways
of Knowing textbook
to gain knowledge on
historical events, from
the first nations
perspective.

Will utilize the writing
of my essay to further
my learning and
research, and to write it
with the perspective of
First nations
experiencing these
historical events.

Will utilize the
websites provided in
the course overview,
on the Indian act, fur
trade, land claims, and
employment and
education.



Become familiar with
first nations culture
from ways of knowing
text, and recognize
how it differs from
mainstream Canadian
culture

Recognize how this
could be a barrier, are
we accommodating to
first nations culture?

Find further resources
on cultural barriers for
first nations Canadians.


Read, answered
questions and took
notes from the ways of
knowing text, focusing
on historical events, and
what that was like for
aboriginals.

Wrote my essay on
aboriginal suicide and
connected this to
historical events, thus
learning more- and
being able to look at
this from the aboriginals
experience

Utilized the websites to
further cement my
knowledge of historical
events and how they
impacted aboriginals.

Became informed on
first nations culture and
the differences with
western ways and how
this impacts services
and health care

Recognized how we are
not accommodating in
the health care field to
first nations culture, and
how important this is
for my future practice

Incorporated many
resources into my
weekly posts which
further cemented
cultural barrier
aboriginals are facing

5/5- I feel confident in
my knowledge of
historical events in
Canada and being able
to explain this from a
first nations
perspective, what was
done to them, what
this meant, how it
affected them, what
they are still dealing
with, etc.













5/5- I feel I am aware
of cultural barriers
first nations are facing,
in regards to
education, health care,
mental health services,
etc.- and how culture
and historical events
plays into that. I feel
confident In my ability
to incorporate first
nations culture into my
practice