Investigating My Practicum Location
Instructions for E-STAT Internet Version

Introductory Lesson:

1. Socio-economic Status

2. Immigration

Overview:

Teachers can over or underestimate the social forces at play in their own or another community.  This is often the case in relation to the area(s) from which schools draw their students.  The initial demonstration of E-STAT will look at some of the ways in which the program can be used by teachers to look at issues from local to countrywide perspectives.  The workshop is intended to help teachers discover more about their own school communities as well as their province & country.  Socio-economic and ethnicity variables are demonstrated in this workshop.  For the connection between schooling levels and income participants are asked to refer to A. Rashid’s Families and Income in Canada (Statistics Canada).

E-STAT is also useful to discover other social aspects relevant to schooling.  For example, for families in your community you can take a look at the mobility status (movers) and family patterns.  Other aspects like school financing costs and environmental issues can also be explored in numerous ways using E-STAT.  The workshop today will use both the 1996 Census module and the CANSIM II module.

Suggested Level: University

Suggested Time: 1.5 hours

Learning Outcomes:

1. The user will explore specific aspects (esp. Socio-economic status / social class [SES] & immigration patterns across Canada) that affect the school in which she/he is to teach.

2. The participant will explore the usefulness of a computer program that also serves as an excellent resource for teachers.

3. The user will investigate some of the uses of graphing and mapping social data.

4. The user will practice with a tool that can help his/her students learn about their community, province, and country.

Getting Started:

1. Turn on computer & monitor.  Logon to the computer network.

2. Log onto the Internet.

3. Type in the URL: http://estat.statcan.ca