One important piece of the First Peoples Principles of Learning is not just learning them as a theory, but seeing them applied in schools. On my first of three observational practicums I observed the implementation of Indigenous appreciation in the local high school which cemented my commitment to applying these principals in my teaching.

This is an example of the Indigenous appreciation at my first observational practicum.
This sign was placed along the main entrance to the school as a land acknowledgement.

There is a model of indigenous learning displayed by Andrew Kitchenham and Tina Fraser in Chapter 13 of Learning Knowing Sharing: Celebrating Successes in K-12 Aboriginal Education in British Columbia (2017). They propose that learning has five elements, displayed in the image below.

The five First Peoples Principles of Learning

I made sure to include the FPPL and Indigenous knowledge wherever I could in my practicum. One example of this was the examination of Indigenous therapies in my Psychology 12 practicum in the therapies unit.