Culturally Responsive Teaching
Empowering Teachers with
Elder-Written Essential Understandings
Lessons & Examples from South Dakota's WoLakota Project
& North Dakota's Teachings Of Our Elders Project
Dr. Scott Simpson & Sharla Steever
TIE Learning Specialists
Culturally Responsive Teaching
Our Regional Work in ND & SD
- Supporting BIE National Board Candidates
- Offering Mentoring for New Teachers
- Training Mentors
- Classroom Modeling
- Essential Understanding Development
- Essential Understanding Implementation
- Elder Video Interviewing
- Resource Development (websites)
- Lesson Design (trainings for teachers)
Key Themes in MT, SD and ND Essential Understandings
- Tribal Sovereignty, Treaties & US Legal System and Policy (7)
- Traditional Culture, Values and Language in Contemporary Lifestyle (6)
- Individual Identity and Variety (5)
- Stewardship and Interrelationship with the Land (4)
- Learning, Storytelling and Oral Tradition (4)
- Resiliency (3)
- Group Cohesion through Generosity, Kinship and Humor (3)
- Societal Contributions of Native People (2)
- Spirituality (2)
http://www.wolakotaproject.org
http://wolakotaproject.org
http://teachingsofourelders.org
http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/literacynumeracy/inspire/research/cbs_responsivepedagogy.pdf
Dr. Scott Simpson
ssimpson@tie.net
Sharla Steever
ssteever@tie.net
- Seven Understandings
- Written by Native Elders across the state
- Collective agreement across the state
- Structure for alignment of lessons
- 300+ and 200+ interview clips
- Elders from ALL state tribal Nations
- Multiple perspectives
- Multiple stories
- Local identification