# Inuit Early Years Program **A Presentation made to the ASQ International Symposium** **Chicago, Sept. 30-Oct.2, 2022** Shirley Tagalik Aqqiumavvik Society --- ARVIAT --- ➢ K-12 Educator ➢ Administrator ➢ Early Childcare Advocate ➢ Manager, Early Childcare & School Services, Curriculum Division ➢ Curriculum writer ➢ Aqqiumavvik Director --- # Revitalizing Culture --- # Inunnguiniq – Making a Capable Human Being - Fully developing the child in all areas to create a level of strength that results in success and survival for both the individual and the group. --- Inunnguiniq- Making a Human Being We can enable children to become human beings by being respectful, loving and understanding while we set high expectations and support positive development. We can make children to become like fragile eggs by being overly protective and taking away their responsibility for their own actions. Not setting expectations for them will lead to dependency. We can make a harden rock-like person by neglecting a child’s needs and treating him/her with too much negative criticism, making the child feel worthless. Setting expectations that a child is not yet ready to meet will teach them defeat. --- # Family is Everything-Supporting families is everyone’s responsibility --- # The Goal – Supporting Families - Revitalize the cultural teaching about inunnguiniq - Encourage parents to observe and interact with their children in supportive ways - Provide language and culturally rich content and activities to use with children - Support healthy child development --- ## Inunnguiniq Childrearing ## Advice From Inuit Elders --- # Family Support Resources [https://www.nccih.ca/485/NCCIH_in_the_News.nccih?id=475](https://www.nccih.ca/485/NCCIH_in_the_News.nccih?id=475) --- # Inunnguiniq Parenting Program - 60 hours – 20 sessions --- # Parent Assessment Tools In Nunavut an Interdepartmental Screening Committee feel the communication and the personal/social sections require further research in terms of cultural and linguistic changes and then validation. --- # Inuktitut ASQ --- # Martin Family Initiative – Early Years Resilience begins with the relationship between a mother and her baby which supports learning through the critical first years of a child’s life. The way to break a cycle of social and systemic inequity is to begin before the cycle begins – The Early Year. This is a project of possibility. --- # Pirurvik Preschool Educators Curriculum --- ## Ataata Parenting Program --- ## Assessment is Learning The role of assessment for language learning & enhancement. The role of assessment for cultural revitalization & capacity building – SEB emphasis. --- Inuit Early Learning & Childcare Strategy - Inuit Language Development Chart - Inunnguiniq Developmental Milestones - Child Development Supports - Aged themes for development - Training with parents - Supports & interventions - Review & assessment/revised ASQ - Ingirrajjutiit Vehicles - Book, song, game, toy, fine motor, gross motor, family life, values teaching. --- # Nutataqsuititlu Qaujisaunirq –Inuit Early Years Support Project - August 2022 – Language and developmental milestone charts - Design & validation of theme content - Material development - November 2022 Visitor training session - Pilot of theme units & revised ASQ - March 2023 – Assessment report --- # Nunavut/ Nunavik # Collaboration --- # Questions? ## Shirley Tagalik inukpaujaq@gmail.com ## 867-857-2817 204-218-0866 (cell)