The new Cariboo field centre is located in at TRU Williams Lake Campus for the 2017 Academic Year. The field centre is hosted in partnership with School District #27 (Williams Lake), School District #28 (Quesnel), Tsilhqot’in National Government, TRU-Williams Lake, and UNBC South Central Campus.
Message from Coordinator – Wendy Clement
While the summer of 2017 was a very stressful and heart wrenching time with the wildfires in the Cariboo region, we experienced a bright moment. 14 students began an exciting and uplifting journey, as. As they entered NITEP, UBC’s Indigenous Teacher Education Program, affectionately known as NITEP. Once the students complete their educational journey, they will have received their Bachelor of Education degree specializing in either elementary/middle school teaching or secondary teaching. As a teacher who has spent her entire career teaching in the Aboriginal education system, I cannot begin to adequately express how honoured and humbled I am to play a small part in placing more Indigenous teachers before our students. It is an exciting time in British Columbia’s educational journey. We have embraced our new curriculum which now contains an Aboriginal focus. Our provincial curriculum will now include lessons that focus on Aboriginal history and culture. As our government rolls out the new curriculum that sheds a truthful and honest light on our history, NITEP will also continue to graduate Indigenous teachers to be part of the educational awakening of British Columbia’s future leaders.
