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From http://nnsl.com/northern-news-services/stories/papers/jan26_09lg.html

Teaching how to teach
Gabriel Zarate
January 26, 2009

At 62 years old, Okpik Pitseolak is the oldest student in the aboriginal language specialist program. Through an interpreter, Pitseolak said she had enrolled in the program as soon as she found out it existed. She intends to become a substitute teacher of Inuktitut, which are always in short supply.

Once the students finish the program in October, they'll graduate as language specialists, qualified to help teachers in Inuktitut language classes. Jim Legge, Arctic College's coordinator of the program, anticipates some of the new language specialists will find work as teachers in some of the smaller communities if no Inuktitut-fluent professional teacher is available.

Read the entire article at http://nnsl.com/northern-news-services/stories/papers/jan26_09lg.html .
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