{"id":180,"date":"2009-09-20T16:25:47","date_gmt":"2009-09-21T00:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/?p=180"},"modified":"2009-09-20T16:25:47","modified_gmt":"2009-09-21T00:25:47","slug":"module-1-%e2%80%93-weblog-entry-2-bruce-spencer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/2009\/09\/20\/module-1-%e2%80%93-weblog-entry-2-bruce-spencer\/","title":{"rendered":"Module 1 \u2013 Weblog Entry #2 &#8211; Bruce Spencer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>National Standards<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Unlike many nations, Canada doesn\u2019t have a national strategy for education. That\u2019s because the federal government doesn\u2019t have any jurisdiction over education; it handed those rights over to the provinces as part of the terms of Canadian Confederation.  Hence, educational standards are set by the individual provinces\/territories. As educators, many of us are probably already familiar with the various curriculum requirements for the province\/territory where we live and work. <\/p>\n<p>In recent years, some attempts have been made by various provincial\/territorial governments to streamline certain core curriculums from across several geographic regions into one common protocol. This is probably as close as we\u2019ll ever come to creating national standards.<\/p>\n<p>\uf0fc\tThe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edu.gov.mb.ca\/ab_languages\/index.html\">Western and Northern Canadian Protocol Aboriginal Languages Project<\/a> is one example of how cooperation between different provinces\/territories can lead to the development of a common curriculum for all.<\/p>\n<p>\uf0fc\tClick here to download a pdf copy of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edu.gov.mb.ca\/abedu\/proactive_report.pdf\">WNCP Framework<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\uf0fc\tClick here for an interactive map that will link you with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edu.gov.mb.ca\/ab_languages\/lang_and_cultures.html\">Aboriginal Languages and Cultures Websites<\/a> from across Western Canada.<\/p>\n<p>\uf0fc\tVisit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmec.ca\/Pages\/splash.aspx\">CMEC<\/a> (Council of Ministers of Education Canada) for the latest developments about the status of education across Canada and from around the world.<\/p>\n<p>\uf0fc\tThe Government of Canada\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboriginalcanada.gc.ca\/acp\/site.nsf\/en\/ao20024.html\">Aboriginal Canada Portal<\/a> website has a variety of information related to Aboriginal Language, Heritage and Culture. The webpage has a Topics Menu with plenty of topics and links to other interesting websites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Standards Unlike many nations, Canada doesn\u2019t have a national strategy for education. That\u2019s because the federal government doesn\u2019t have any jurisdiction over education; it handed those rights over to the provinces as part of the terms of Canadian Confederation. Hence, educational standards are set by the individual provinces\/territories. As educators, many of us are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[162],"tags":[233],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-module-1","tag-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions\/205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}