Best Practices for Teaching Native Students
August 8th & 9th, 2012
Schedule
Day 1:
8:30 Welcome/Breakfast/Housekeeping
9:00 Experiential Introduction to Best Practices (Graham Hartley)
9:15 Round Dance (John Oakgrove)
9:45 History of Indian Education (Roxanne Gould)
11:00 The IFL Principles of Learning and the Indigenous Ways of Knowing (Ida Downwind/Odia
Wood-Krueger)
12:00 Lunch and Discussion (Potluck with Community Partners)
12:45 7 Generations (James Vukelich)
1:45 Native Peoples of MN (Louise Matson)
2:45 Internet and other resources (Joe Rice & Graham Hartley)
3:15 Closing Activity: Write a letter to your students (Danielle Grant)
Day 2:
8:30 Breakfast/ Introduction to the Field Trip (Jim Rock)
9:00 Place Based Field Trip: Sacred Sites (Jim Rock)
Box lunches at MN History Center
2:00 Return to DIW for Talking Circle
3:15 Evaluation/Survey