Help to American Indian/Native American Students- Status and honor are earned by sharing and giving wealth away, students are more cooperative learners.
- The family and tribe are more important than the individual, the teacher should make an effort to incorporate the tribe and family into lessons. - Students use silence to show respect. - Time is cyclical, where students are more concerned about the current situation rather than future plans. - Teacher needs to be sure that textbooks and classroom materials validate tribal culture and history - Students write stories, focusing more on details than chronological order or major points of the story. - There should be a family centered teaching approach in the classroom. - Teacher will need to be patient and persistent in gaining trust with students - Provide ample wait time for the student to formulate what they want to say. - The teacher should attend as many tribal functions as possible to show respect for the student's home culture. - Students, typically, prefer to be visually shown how to do an assignment instead of just being given instructions on the assignment. - Teacher should try to arrange the desk in a circular and more communal shape for the entire classroom. |