One of the few things I use Facebook for is the ability to ask other high school shop teachers questions regarding shop class. I am part of a group that has many shops teachers across the province. The group is used to bounce ideas off one another, assist each other with teaching, and well, basically anything that has to do with shop class. Looking through some of the old files in the group, I has able to see how a shop teacher took the First People’s Principles of Learning and related it to shop class. Basically, one of the principles is stated, the there is a short follow up section on how that principle connects to what we do in shop. The teacher put images of the bands which feed into the school, and also the traditional territory in which the school sits on. They can be changed as the teacher is willing to share a version which can be edited. I have attached the pdf to their version.
What I like about this is it takes very little time to print and hang some posters in a classroom, but can make a huge difference when students see it. Shop classes are often in the corner of a school (or sometimes completely separate) and they don’t carry a reputation of being the most up to date with the times unfortunately. It is pretty easy to walk into a school shop program and see safety posters from the 90’s and worn out tables and chairs. This is also an example of how sharing can make a difference across schools and districts.