EDTS 234 Indigenous Film Study: The Grizzlies

Lessons Learned:

1. Challenges make you grow as a teacher or as a student.
2. Being a role model for these students can motivate and encourage them.
3. Building trusting relationships before expecting them to listen is extremely important.
4. Never give up on students, or yourself.
5. Take the time to make things right with students.

Lessons Learned
* getting them to work as a team plus the importance of a team
* teaching them in a beneficial way that they are interested
* race can affect ones education
* gives them am opprotuinity to work together

Lessons Learned:

1. Challenges make you grow as a teacher or as a student.
2. Being a role model for these students can motivate and encourage them.
3. Building trusting relationships before expecting them to listen is extremely important.
4. Never give up on students, or yourself.
5. Take the time to make things right with students.
6. Teamwork is extremely important.

Tackaways from "The Grizzles"/ what Ive learned:
- the importance of building relationships, in and out of classroom
- provide encouragement and support for all students
- do not make promises you cannot keep/ don't get your hopes up all the time
- create equal oppourtunities for all students

Lessons Learned:
* How intergenerational trauma can effect students in multiple different ways
* How having a common interest can bring a community together
* The benefits of team building activities
* How students benefit from their connection with their teacher
* The benefits of having respect in your classroom

Lessons Learned
* race can affect ones education
* getting them to work as a team
* gives them a opprotunity to work together

dont go in to your classroom with assumptions
be open to change your ways on how you will teach
be accomodating to all students because you never know what your students are going through

Lessons Learned:
- celebrate any victory, even if they seem small
- learn about the culture(s) of your students
- keep an open-mind
- learn about your students background, interests, family life, etc.
- education doesn't always need to come first
- create a loving and accepting community

Lessons learned:
- to have empathy for your students (give them the benefit of the doubt before coming to a conclusion)
- connect with your students (Russ used Lacrosse as a interest to benefit his students)
- Your way is not the only way to do things

Teaching in the remote North is not the same as other places. Education may not be in the fore front of responsabilities. survival comes first, so you never want to enter a community thinking you are going to change the way the community opperates. you need to adapt to the commuinity, then you can implement programs to help. relizing generationaltrauma is still felt in many communities, do not walk in heavy handed be respectful, and learn the ways of the community. join in the communities traditional activities and events to build relationships.

The Grizzlies
- showing respect goes a long way
- educate yourself on other cultures
- showing you care may get students engaged in activities/ school
- embracing the indigennous culture

Lessons Learned
-the power of community was highlighted. Community is the way to build positive, supportive relationships.
-importance of working together, as a teacher to inspire youth to push through tough times
-strength is born out of friendship and family
-inspired me to advocate for the mental health of Inuit youth as well as promote overall mental health for all students
-learned about the history of trauma, residential schools, and colonization and learnt what we need to do as a nation to start supporting Indigenous communities
-important to encourage cultural community values and cultural knowledge
-teach with a learner-centered teaching approach for all students, important to understanding a students background will impact education
-"We Matter" is the only youth-led Indigenous mental health organization in Canada with the basis of "hope, strength, and culture" which is a great message to incorporate in your own classroom

One of the lessons learned through the film study is the importance of effective relationships with students. Before the teacher had built relationships, the students were disrespectful and not engaged with any material being instructed. By making an effort to learn more about students personal lives and customs of the community, mutual respect is more easily established.

Lessons learned:
- Setting goals that align with student and educator philosophy.
- Prevailing through emotional and social difficulties, and remembering everyone deals with grief/trauma in different ways; It's crucial to remember the various ways people handle adversity, and having the ability to recognize the difference in coping helps begin the healing process.
- Empathizing and acknowledging student culture is critical to gaining respect, trust and community.
- Resilience is key; as well as forming a community that benefits the collective.
- Generational trauma can not be healed in an instant. It takes patience, determination, resilience and strength to even begin healing/mending the trauma.

Lessons Learned
- community is essential in in ones growth and future journey
- although in the moment, when faced with a particular challenge many may feel that it is impossible for a positive outcome to follow. Yet, the positive outcome is that it helps all grow.
- role models have the oppoutunity to change others journey for the best
- respect needs to go both ways to create trusting and worth while relationships
- no matter how little effort you put in, that little bit of effort may affect someone substantially
- positive relationships and impacts takes time
- no matter how difficult a situation may be, never give up on yourself nor the students that look up to you.