Expanded U of A program to train Indigenous teachers for urban schools – Edmonton Journal

September 14, 2017

Alicia Cardinal can remember playing “teacher” as early as age four.

With a sign for her desk reading “Mrs. Cardinal,” she handed out worksheets for her brothers to complete early in the morning, before their parents were out of bed. Her father was a teacher, and she yearned to follow his lead.

Now, the 20-year-old from the Buffalo Lake Métis Settlement is part of a new stream of the University of Alberta’s Aboriginal Teacher Education Program (ATEP).

“School is one of those places (children) go not just to learn, but they feel at home. I just want to be that place, where they just love to enjoy to come every single day,” Cardinal said.

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