{"id":1202,"date":"2017-11-23T15:07:58","date_gmt":"2017-11-23T23:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/inman-library\/?p=1202"},"modified":"2017-11-23T15:07:58","modified_gmt":"2017-11-23T23:07:58","slug":"learning-circles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/inman-library\/2017\/11\/23\/learning-circles\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning Circles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After participating in a Learning Circle workshop presented by Lori Magri, Brandi Price, Cailin Lau, et al., it became much clearer to me the importance of connecting to our ancestry and the connection to First People&#8217;s Principles of Learning.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This post is meant to document some helpful resources as an educator. I particularly liked the&nbsp;The Talking Circle webpage from the Alberta&nbsp;<em>Walking Together: First Nations, M\u00e9tis<\/em>&nbsp;<em>and Inuit Perspectives in Curriculum site <\/em>because I was able to adapt and modify its framework for the classroom.&nbsp; Please not that modifications and adaptations will be required if used with elementary students.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1204\" style=\"width: 701px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1204\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1204 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/inman-library\/files\/2017\/11\/talking-Circle.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"691\" height=\"519\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/inman-library\/files\/2017\/11\/talking-Circle.png 691w, https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/inman-library\/files\/2017\/11\/talking-Circle-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/inman-library\/files\/2017\/11\/talking-Circle-600x451.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 691px) 100vw, 691px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1204\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image from http:\/\/firstnationspedagogy.ca\/circletalks.html<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.learnalberta.ca\/content\/aswt\/talkingtogether\/facilitated_talking_circle_fact_sheet.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Talking Circle Fact sheet<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/firstnationspedagogy.ca\/circletalks.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/firstnationspedagogy.ca\/circletalks.html<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heartland.edu\/documents\/idc\/talkingCircleClassroom.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Talking Circle Prep Sheet Sample<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Trying to figure out how to do this with very young students has been a learning curve and enlightening.&nbsp; My experiences have been a work in progress in collaboration with various teachers and grades (2\/3, K, K\/1) .&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After participating in a Learning Circle workshop presented by Lori Magri, Brandi Price, Cailin Lau, et al., it became much clearer to me the importance of connecting to our ancestry and the connection to First People&#8217;s Principles of Learning.&nbsp; This &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/inman-library\/2017\/11\/23\/learning-circles\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[49,67],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/inman-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/inman-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/inman-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/inman-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/inman-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1202"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/inman-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1209,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/inman-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202\/revisions\/1209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/inman-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/inman-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/inman-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}