Embedding Indigenous ways of knowing into my practice: a self-study

Born out of the need for reconciliation in education, this self-study examined how my practice, as an early primary French Immersion teacher, was aligning with the First Peoples Principles of Leaning, and examined where I was meaningfully embedding Indigenous ways of knowing into my daily teaching. Following a mixed methods approach, I began by collecting qualitative data through the form of weekly journal entries, and then created a daily self-assessment tool which collected quantitative data. When analyzing both sets of data it became apparent that my success with meaningfully embedding the desired content increased over the data collection period and that the act of turning a reflective lens on my practice acted as motivation to go deeper with connections to the First People Principles of Learning.