After the stay of the Canadian teacher Ian Wilson from Canada, in our high school, our English teacher, Marta Mercadé, returned the visit to Canada.

The goal of the job shadowing was to get to know the Alberta Education system and share our teacher’s pedagogic experiences and teaching background with a group of Canadian staff from Lacombe, in Alberta, Canada.

During her stay in Lacombe, Marta Mercadé visited the kindergarten, Elementary, middle, high schools  and community colleges of the area in her study of an education system based on life-long learning within an inclusive and respectful environment for all community members, no matter their needs, social or ethnical differences. Thus, She attended several classes of different levels, she met school administrators, and she especially enjoyed talking to indigenous teachers who helped Native Canadian students to learn their mother tongues, such as the Cree language, also in school, and therefore to find their own identity.

Lacombe Schools may be little in size and number of students but great in all their diversity, respect and knowledge of their own people ! Something which this job shadowing experience must bring to our schools in Catalonia. Marta Mercadé would like to express her gratitude for the warming welcome in Lacombe, and for the opportunity staff, families and administration provided her with to have such an enriching stay in Canada. Now she really looks forward to sharing her experience with staff and students in Mercader High School.

The importance of Native Canadian languages in Lacombe Schools: