NS+Work+Plan

__**Northern Studies 10,20,30**__


 * =Task List - May - August 2012= ||  ||

Curriculum || Learning Outcomes || John Stewart || Create Learning Outcomes
 * Title || Sub-Category || Contact || Action Item || Start Date || Completion ||
 * Northern Studies

Create Course Description

Differentiated Outcomes

Standardized Exams? ||  ||   ||
 * || Inquiry Based Learning ||  || Write description of Inquiry as it applies to NS 10,20,30

What are essential questions? For NS? ||  ||   || Interview Skills ||   ||   ||
 * || Course Content Headings ||  || Leadership
 * || Resource List for Teachers ||  || What is available right now for teachers to use in these courses?

What resources most need to be created?

Bibliography of primary and secondary sources available to teachers provided as a usable document or searchable database? ||  ||   || Idaa Trail NWT Timeline
 * PWNHC || Electronic Archive || Mark Heyck ||  ||   ||   ||
 * || Edukits ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * || Online Learning Activities ||  || Nuligak

Do new learning activities need to be created for NS 10/20/30? What learning activities currently exist? Can they be made into electronic form? ||  ||   ||
 * Curricular Matches || Art ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * || Biology ||  || Can inquiry around wildlife or traditional knowledge be applied to biology as well?

Are there independent research projects at the Biology 10,20 or 30 level? ||  ||   || Can we have students do Career Focussing in the North – ie. If students take this course, is our assumption that they want to stay in the North – if yes, should they take a career credit on finding 3-5 jobs they would be interested in pursuing that pathway. Also, in the archive, could be create a Career page of interesting Northern work?
 * || Career Focussing || Elaine Stewart || Does career focusing match to this course?

Can we use the results to fuel inquiry? ||  ||   ||
 * || Dene Kede ||  || Can we match DK skills and outcomes and extend them into the high school level?

What are the curricular matches between DK and NS? ||  ||   ||
 * Aurora College || NTEP Program and Teacher In-Servicing ||  || Can Aurora College have a course on teaching Northern Studies which would count as the inservicing required for current teachers?

Inservice must include how to use inquiry method, but also must introduce basic historical knowledge.

Is Aurora College the partner in providing in-servicing to NWT teachers? Could satellite campus’ in community offer the inservice in partnership with Band and ECE? ||  ||   ||
 * Dechinta || Teacher In-Servicing ||  || Is Dechinta the site for NS teacher inservicing?

If yes, where does the funding come from? ||  ||   ||
 * University of Alberta || Course Alignment ||  || What is required to ensure that NS lines up with the expectations of U of A Native Studies program?

What resources are housed at U of A that could be useful to NS students? ||  ||   || What does the teacher receive for completing the inservice? ||  ||   ||
 * Alberta Native Studies || Course Alignment ||  || Is it possible to have NS recognized as Native Studies equivalent? Or should it be a social studies equivalent? What is the process? ||   ||   ||
 * NWTTA || Teacher In-Servicing ||  || Are there issues with requiring inservicing to teach the course? Do we need the unions permission?
 * WACIC ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * NYAP || Leadership Skills ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Heritage Fairs ||  ||   || Heritage Fairs as an example of Inquiry-Based Learning.

Electronic examples of Heritage Fair projects held on the electronic archive as a form of best practice exemplars

NS as a long Heritage Fair project – or several ||  ||   ||
 * ICT ||  || Blake || Will the electronic archive be managed by PWNHC or by the Department?

Will there be two archives – one static and housed at the Museum holding information and one dynamic site created by students held and managed at the Department?

What are the curricular matches in terms of creating archives, using Wikis, managing websites, filming and editing interviews? ||  ||   ||
 * Beaufort Delta Resources ||  ||   || If we make DK links to NS, what can we use for Inuvialuit? ||   ||   ||
 * Health Telelink

Industry ||  ||   || What is the possible use of Health Telelinks for NS? Can ICT link be made using this resource?

Who do we contact to ensure that the skills we envision as important (interviewing, technology, etc.) are really the ones that industry are looking for? Is there a skills database that BHP or other industry folks have which says 'these are the skills we need in your communities? If not, how do we build one? ||  ||   ||