Post your answers! Please indicate what question you are answering (#1, #2, #3) by Mariam Askar

Question #2

2025-10-09 18:33:41 UTC

Long term impacts of residential schools include mistrust in the education and healthcare system, implicit bias in the workforce and overall a decline in mental health and quality in life.

2. Long term generational trauma. It’s impacted language, culture, tradition, and identity.

2025-10-09 18:34:24 UTC

2025-10-09 18:34:35 UTC

Generational trauma, substance abuse, mental health problems as a lasting impact of residential schools

Question 3

2025-10-09 18:34:40 UTC

Bring indigenous representation into classrooms!

2025-10-09 18:34:43 UTC

Teaching the truth about history and fostering empathy

What can Teachers do?

2025-10-09 18:34:47 UTC

Have indigenous community members come in and share stories of their experiences and those of their elders

Q2

2025-10-09 18:34:50 UTC

Loss of identity and cultural significance

Question 3

2025-10-09 18:34:51 UTC

We as educators have the role of continuing to educate our students and future generations on Indigenous culture and the impact of residential schools. Incorporating story-telling from Indigenous peoples and communities is a great way of incorporating authentic and real stories into lessons.

3

2025-10-09 18:34:53 UTC

Educate for awareness: Teach accurate Indigenous history, including residential schools and their lasting impacts.
Integrate Indigenous perspectives: Embed Indigenous knowledge, voices, and worldviews across all subjects.

Question #3

2025-10-09 18:34:54 UTC

As educators, we support reconciliation by teaching truth, honouring Indigenous voices, and fostering respect and understanding in our classrooms.

Number #3

2025-10-09 18:34:55 UTC

Continue educating the youth and having students share their personal experiences so we can learn from each other!

Question 3

2025-10-09 18:34:58 UTC

As educators we need to honour the past while progressing to a better future. Additionally it is our role to bring individuals in whose cultures have been harmed because the most impact comes from sharing lived experiences.

Kids in schools today are often being raised by their grandparents who were residential school survivors. The fear and mistrust is still there!

2025-10-09 18:34:58 UTC

Question #2

2025-10-09 18:35:01 UTC

The long term effects are prevalent. Schools today are still built on the ideas of colonization, and trauma runs deep in the families of victims. One impact may be mistrust in the system

Q3.

2025-10-09 18:35:05 UTC

Commit to ongoing learning and self reflection.

2025-10-09 18:35:10 UTC

The long term impacts are very harmful as languages are lost and aspects of culture as well. It also damages self worth and identity when you are told your culture and way of life is wrong

#3

2025-10-09 18:35:31 UTC

Educators should play a key role in reconciliation by teaching the truth about Indigenous histories, including Indigenous voices and knowledge in learning, building respectful relationships with communities, and challenging systemic inequities. Our role is to turn understanding into meaningful action in classrooms and schools.

Q3 - What Role Should we as Educators play in Reconciliation?

2025-10-09 18:35:33 UTC

We should be education youth about what has happened to indigenous people in the past, and why it is important for us to be apart of reparations even though they were not ‘physically there’.

2025-10-09 18:35:38 UTC

What role should we as educators play in reconciliation?

We as educators should be open and willing to participate and teach reconciliation. We are shaping the future minds of the world, so we should teach them how to be open minded, forgiving, and have the ability to reconcile.

Question #3

2025-10-09 18:35:42 UTC

as educators we can play a role in reconciliation by educating students about the legacy of residential schools, and indigenous communities in a respectful, honest, and culturally aware way. We should also do this more than once a month, but instead discuss indigenous communities and the destructive legacy of residential schools throughout the entire year.

1.

2025-10-09 18:35:50 UTC

Despite the attempts to integrate and become more inclusive, it was never enough, even after the govt apology.

2025-10-09 18:35:53 UTC

Long term impacts can include; mental health issues, having distrust in the school system and education being delivered

Question #3

2025-10-09 18:36:00 UTC

Steering away from being the “experts” and welcoming Indigenous Peoples into the classrooms to share their stories and experiences with students

1. Comparing Time Periods

2025-10-09 18:36:14 UTC

Upon reflecting on and viewing the different time periods it was interesting to see how the perspective or goal changed of the "education" but the purpose remained the same. The colonizers believed that they were "helping".

In original contact the purpose was to make them "frenchmen" and it was interesting to me that many Indigenous people were actually not against the religious part of the education, but they were against the culturally French part, since that interfered with their culture more.

Next, I found it interesting that in the Industrial Era it was still framed as "helping" the Indigenous students. The settlers had effectively stolen their land and ruined their ability to continue their way of life. So they phrased it as trying to give them skills to survive in a land that they had destroyed and colonized.

2025-10-09 18:36:18 UTC

As educators it is out job to support and uplift our students voices. We are here to educate and honour differences.

Question #2

2025-10-09 18:36:32 UTC

I think residential schools impacted views on education and the government heavily. I think that within indigenous communities it would be difficult to trust the government and education based on the abuse that took place.

What can educators do?

2025-10-09 18:36:34 UTC

Listen, learn, respond.

Every step builds on a communal effort and it matters!

3

2025-10-09 18:36:39 UTC

As educators I think we have to engage in continuous professional learning to ensure we are teaching the very best way we can be. Bringing in outside community members who are Indigenous and more informed then cause be helpful tool to inform the younger generation of ways that we are unaware of and do not have the right to teach. We need to be the change and engage in Reconciliation

Question 3

2025-10-09 18:36:42 UTC

educate yourself first to be a knowledgeable and inclusive teacher
incorporate truth in curriculum
foster respect, empathy, and relationships
challenge injustice and racism
advocate for inclusivity
centre indigenous voices in the classroom
empower students to be agents of change

Question #1

2025-10-09 18:36:45 UTC

I was shocked to learn about the industrial schools that came before the residential schools while doing the reading. It was interesting to see that they almost worked backwards in terms of their treatment of indigenous children. Absolutely none of it was acceptable, but the treatment seemed to start as not as vicious and then became truly awful with the culmination of residential schools. We have slowly been moving away from that but there are still remnants of that system still within ours today.