The province was celebrating the 10th anniversary of offering treaty education in Saskatchewan schools on Friday.
As part of the celebration, the government has rolled out an enhanced treaty education resource kit for teachers in kindergarten to Grade Nine classrooms.
Saskatchewan Treaty Commissioner Mary Culbertson says the kit contains a new resource guide with suggestions for integrating treaty education into a variety of subject areas with sample learning activities and online resource links.
“The resource guide had been developed some years ago by most of the elders you see in our boardroom today, the Ministry (of Education) and the Office of the Treaty Commissioner,” she says.
Culbertson says the partners just want to make it as easy as possible for teachers to implement treaty education in their regular lesson plans.
“Sometimes, these resources and lessons don’t get an opportunity to be applied when they’re (teachers) are just trying to get through their every day.”
The supplemental resource supports are also part of the ministry’s vision to ensure equitable outcomes and improved student achievement for First Nations and Métis students.
(PHOTO: Left to right, Federation of Saskatchewan Indigenous Nations Chief Bobby Cameron, Saskatchewan Treaty Commissioner Mary Culbertson and Education Minister Gordon Wyant. Photo by Fraser Needham.)