Some Interesting Facts on Poverty in Canada

Canada ranks 24th of 30 countries when looking at the Child Poverty

References
www.statscanada.ca www.povertyfreeontario.ca/poverty-in-ontario/statusof-poverty-in-ontario/ www.children.gov.on.ca/htdocs/English/breakingthec ycle/strategy/strategy.aspx http://www.teachnology.com/tutorials/teaching/poverty/3/ http://www.globalincome.org/English/Facts.html http://www.spno.ca/latest/poverty-free-ontarios-sixpoint-plan-for-action-on-poverty-eradication

Canada is a wealthy country, yet 3.5 million so Canadian live in poverty. Approximately 1/10 people live in poverty. In Ontario, that number jumps to approximately 1/7 people. In aboriginal communities, that number sky rockets to people. Canada rates 4th on the UN Human Development Index, but if we take into account aboriginal stats, we would rate 78th. 33% experience food insecurity as compared to 9% of other Canadians 116 Aboriginal communities are living under boil water advisories in just over 600 government recognized bands. That is almost 20% Only 31 percent about half the Canadian average of the Aboriginal on-reserve population has a high school education.

And its Effects on Education

http://www.makepovertyhistory.ca/learn/issues/endpoverty-in-canada

By: Ryan Liska, Kathleen Harbison, Lauren Towne and Catlin Code

What can teachers do to make the school environment more inclusive? 1. Provide support to students and their families. Involve parents. Early intervention is critical 2. Create an environment and use activities that foster mutual respect, resilience, self-esteem, self-regulation and self-efficacy 3. Be sure to not single out or draw attention to students effected by poverty 4. Develop relationships with students to identify their needs (emotional and intellectual) and identify their individual learning style 5. Emphasize that each student is unique with value, talents and abilities 6. Promote awareness and acceptance of diversity. Encourage students to recognize similarities as well as differences 7. Provide developmentally appropriate, meaningful learning activities and use thematic or integrated instruction, cooperative learning, inquiry and authentic learning.

Poverty Defined
Prevalence In Canada Based on an equation that calculates what percentage of income is spent on necessitates (ex. Food, water, and shelter). This is known as the Low Income Cut Off After Taxes. A family unit that spends 20% more on food, water, and shelter than the average family. Currently 9.4 percent of Canadian families fall under the LIOC-AT mark

How Poverty Effects Students

Children do not have a choice if they are going to be born let alone where they are going to be born and whether or not they are going to be born into poverty. The want to do better and the need to escape develops over time into feelings of having no control over the quality of their lives and the helpless that ensues from the struggle to do better. The feeling of being helpless and trapped leads to emotional turmoil and manifests itself into many other problems that become evident in their day-to-day lives. These problems can be anything from low self-esteem and low feeling of self-worth to becoming aggressive and eliciting impulsive behaviour. The problems that arise from poverty are not just found in high schools they have been discovered in children as early as 7 to 12 years old. Children having low self-esteem and self worth in the developmental stage of their lives lends itself to the child having a long and unhappy life of feeling inadequate