On Site Professional Development
School Visits, District PIR Days, Presentations and Conferences...
1. IEFA 101
- History and overview of legal, ethical and instructional facets of Indian Education for All
- Essential Understandings regarding MT Indians
- Ideas for curriculum integration
- Extra time may be requested for exploration of IEFA curriculum resources
- Recommended time: 2– 4 hrs or 2 – 4 hour-long sessions
- Supporting content standards with best-practice instruction
- Levels of integration (Banks, et al)
- Content and grade-level specific resources and ideas
- Evaluation criteria
- Demonstrating/modeling IEFA lesson plans
- Recommended time: 2– 4 hrs or 2 – 4 hour-long sessions
- Mascots, media stereotypes
- Current Events i.e. natural resources and economic development issues
- Tribal sovereignty issues
- Recommended time: 2 hrs or 2 hour-long sessions
- Literature by and about American Indians to
support standards-based instruction - Grade-level and content specific suggestions
- Evaluation criteria, selecting and using quality literature
- Resources for locating and purchasing materials
- Recommended time: 2 hrs or 2 hour-long sessions
- Learn to use the PlaceNames curriculum (Grade 6, adaptable)
- Salish ˜ Pend d'Oreille worldview, sense of place
- integrates Science, Communication Arts, Technology, and Social Studies
- Rationale, policy review
- Funding/accountability
- Supporting teachers’ IEFA instruction
- IEFA and multicultural education theory
- Rationale, policy review
- Supporting teachers’ IEFA instruction
- Funding/accountability
- Recognizing cultural lenses, shifting attitudes
8. IEFA awareness for community groups, general public
9. Facilitating partnerships between local educators and cultural experts
