Nunavut teachers abroad

Students at the Nunavut Teacher Education Program could wind up in Norway next year.

Two teachers at Nunavut Arctic College visited the Sami University College in Kautokeino, Norway, where Sami students are training to become teachers.

“The Verddet exchange program will allow Nunavut student teachers to see for themselves how another indigenous teacher education program is meeting the challenge of providing culturally appropriate education and first language instruction,” Education Minister Ed Picco said last Friday.

The University of the Arctic and Foreign Affairs Canada are supporting the project.