Why do Native American teachers want to get involved?
• Native American educators across America have written award winning curriculum materials that have never been implemented in the schools. Cradleboard provides a venue for this work to get into the hands of fellow Native American teachers, as well as Mainstream teachers who want and need them. • It used to be that even with all their excellent work, Native American educators and social workers felt that they were working in a vacuum. Cradleboard puts Mainstream non-Indian teachers on the team in order to remedy misperceptions from the outside as we continue to clarify facts and build educational tools from inside the Native community. • Native American teachers at the reservation or local community level are excellent at teaching their own cultures, but up to now there has not been a reliable body of core curriculum originating from within the Native American community. Thus, a Native American teacher could clearly reflect an Indian identity when talking about tipis and smoke signals;
Related Questions
- Many teachers are involved in individual coaching and tutions to their own students. How can the new scheme ensure that such teachers do not indulge in granting favours to such students?
- What is the role of Native American educators who are not necessarily classroom teachers?
- Why do Native American parents and communities want to get involved?
