February 22, 2005
Concordia University, Montreal
Recent Research
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Ensuring Supply, Training and Retention of Quality Teachers
A. Supply and Retention
Recommendations of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (1996)
Chapter 5: The Commission recommends that
3.5.14
Federal, provincial and territorial governments expand financial support to post-secondary institutions for existing and new Aboriginal teacher education programs, contingent on
(a) evidence of Aboriginal support for the program;
(b) Aboriginal participation in the governance of the program;
(c) the incorporation of Aboriginal content and pedagogy into the program; and
(d) periodic evaluations that indicate that the quality of teacher education conforms to standards of excellence expected by Aboriginal people.
3.5.15
Canadian governments, Aboriginal education authorities, post-secondary institutions and teacher education programs adopt multiple strategies to increase substantially the number of Aboriginal secondary school teachers, including
(a) promoting secondary school teaching careers for Aboriginal people;
(b) increasing access to professional training in secondary education, for example, community-based delivery of courses and concurrent programs;
(c) offering financial incentives to students.
3.5.16
Federal, provincial and territorial governments provide support to increase the number of Aboriginal people trained as teachers by
(a) expanding the number of teacher education programs delivered directly in communities; and
(b) ensuring that students in each province and territory have access to such programs.
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