OFNIE Annual Summer Institute Hosts 80+ Indigenous Students

From July 5-13, the Faculty of Education's Office of First Nations and Inuit Education (OFNIE) is hosting Summer Institute in the Education Building at McGill's downtown campus for students following OFNIE's in-community programs.

More than 8o OFNIE students from 17 different Inuit, Cree, Kanien'kehá:ka, and Naskapi communities from across (what is now) the province of Quebec.

Two courses are being offered: two sections of a course on teaching to diverse learners in the Indigenous classroom and another on using Indigenous art across the elementary school curriculum.

Students are completing these courses as part of the Certificate and Bachelor's programs OFNIE delivers in partnership with Kativik Ilisarniliriniq, Cree School Board, Naskapi Education Committee, and Kahnawà:ke Education Centre.