Help aboriginal children to open up about their emotions

Photo Jean-Francois Desgagnes
From left to right, Patricia-Anne Blanchet, Jasmine Roy and Marco and Bacon are a couple of posters developed by Ms. Blanchet to help Aboriginal young people to identify their emotions and their needs.

Pierre-Paul Biron

Wednesday, 11 October, 2017 00:01

UPDATE
Wednesday, 11 October, 2017 00:01

Look at this article

The Fondation Jasmin Roy took advantage today of a symposium on student retention among First Nations to launch a new tool aimed to facilitate learning social and emotional in aboriginal children.

For a ” literacy of feelings and needs “, the tool developed by the Foundation and developed by the teacher Patricia-Anne Blanchet will allow children to better express what they feel deep inside themselves. They discover different emotions and needs, accompanied by the pictograms for easier identification. A series of activities leading up to the dialogue that accompanies the everything.

Better to read the students

“When you acquire these skills at a young age, when you manage to identify and speak to these emotions, you’re going to have better emotional behaviors and relational with those around us. It is therefore easier to stay in school and find your account “, explains Jasmin Roy, very pleased to have found partners to develop these posters derived in several aboriginal dialects.

Ultimately, the tool will also become a way for teachers to take the pulse of their class, to better ” read their students “. A student who, for example, said every day feel anger or sadness at the time of the year allows the teacher to guide its interventions.

Nurseries ideas

“The child can come to say that there are problems at home, or they need to see friends. It allows you to take the temperature of the class every day to read the emotion of the child who may not be able to talk about otherwise, ” adds Mr. Roy.

The new initiative of the Fondation Jasmin Roy is being launched today within the framework of the third Symposium on the perseverance and academic success among First Peoples, organized by the Centre Nikanite of the University of Quebec at Chicoutimi.

For a period of three days, the Symposium wants to be a real hotbed of ideas aimed at improving the lot of aboriginal education, a folder, sometimes arduous, given the many stakeholders involved.

“apolitical “

“Everyone has an ideal that is obviously of aboriginal institutions, but the Conference is not a vehicle for it. It is non-partisan. What we wanted was to create an event that puts all those people in the link, ” says the director of the Centre for First Nations Nikanite, Marco Bacon, which organizes the Symposium.

Who want to go in the same direction, the minister of Education Sébastien Proulx announced on Tuesday that the outfit by the end of October a first meeting of the new table to the educational success of aboriginal.

“There were places of discussion informal, now there will be a place where we will discuss the success of aboriginal students and where we will mostly steps in this direction. […] This is a step in the right direction, ” believes the minister Proulx.