Aboriginal Teacher Education Program
  Seven Generations Education Institute

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Seven Generations Education Institute

This program is based out of Seven Generations Education Institute located at Fort Frances, Ontario. Fort Frances is the oldest settlement in Canada, west of Lake Superior, and resides in the Rainy Lake Tribal area (Ojibwe Territory). It is situated where Rainy Lake flows into the Rainy River. The area's history is intertwined with the early economic history of Canada. A permanent Hudson's Bay Company Post was established in 1818, and the first settlers began to arrive in the 1870's. In the mid 1870's an era of logging and forestry was ushered in with the arrival of the railway.

The Aboriginal Teacher Education program offered by SGEI is highly unique and valuable to the communities it services. The Seven Generations Education Institute program services the Treaty 3 communities of Fort Frances, Kenora and Dryden. The program coordinator, instructors and staff help create an environment in which ensures that, right from the first day, students feel welcome and safe. Individuals from across Northwestern Ontario, each with different backgrounds are brought together for one purpose, to become teachers.

Seven Generations Education Institute has developed a delivery method that promotes students supporting each other. A network of professionals is developed between the students within the classrooms and between the different cohorts. This network creates a support system for students. The new students rely on the experience of the older students to provide advice and support on assignments and practicums. Due to the small size of the classes (typically twenty to twenty-five students), students are able to interact with one another, discuss important issues, and because the classroom becomes a room full of friends, feel at ease to express themselves and learn together. This network is extremely valuable in supporting students through to graduation.  

The instructors of the program continuously model a cooperative learning environment which incorporates inclusion, influence and community. Students are also exposed to the benefits of discovery learning by participating in classrooms that have been designed with this in mind. In every course the students are at the center of their own learning. The instructors also model classroom management strategies using such models as provided by Harry Wong and Tribes, for example. In the end, Seven Generations Education Institute produces highly skilled and employable teachers that are ready for their own classroom.

Area Attractions

Kay-Nah-Chi-Wah-Nung Historical Centre

This is one of the most significant centres of early habitation and ceremonial burial in North America. It is built into the riverbank and features seven galleries of displays and exhibits, along with drawings from different points of the last 10,000 years of Aboriginal history.

Community-based Downloadable Supporting Documentation

Seven Generations Education Institute ATEP Schedule 2011-12

Seven Generations Education Institute ATEP Schedule 2012-13

Seven Generations Education Institute ATEP Practicum Handbook 2012-13

Seven Generations Education Institute ATEP Practicum Assessment Rubric 2012-13

Seven Generations Education Institute ATEP Interim Practicum Report 2012-13

Seven Generations Education Institute ATEP Summative Practicum Assessment Form 2012-13

 

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Seven Generations Education Institute Community-Based Office Contact Information

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