KnowledgeBases > The American Indian Education KnowledgeBase > Element 4: Utilize Culturally Responsive Teaching Methodologies
Purpose: Some research suggests one reason for the achievement gap faced by American Indian students is cultural conflicts between American Indian homes and schools. Accordingly, culturally responsive teaching methodologies should address:
- American Indian learning styles;
- Indianizing curriculum;
- Ethnomathematics and ethnoscience;
- American Indian charter and magnet schools; and
- Language revitalization.
- Activity 1: Helping American Indian Children to Learn
- Task 1: Be Aware of American Indian Learning Styles
- Task 2: Avoid Biased Teaching and Stereotypes
- Task 3: Understand the American Indian Perspective on Gifted and Talented Education
- Task 4: Identify and Serve Exceptional American Indian Children
- Task 5: Prepare Educators to Teach American Indian Students
- Activity 2: Integrate American Indian History and Culture into School Curriculum
- Task 1: Develop a Curriculum for American Indian Students
- Task 2: Integrate Social Studies
- Task 3: Incorporate Ethnomathematics and Ethnoscience
- Task 4: Apply to Reading and Children's Literature
- Task 5: Instill Through Writing
- Activity 3: The Role of American Indian Charter and Magnet Schools
- Activity 4: Teaching Indigenous Languages
- Task 1: Be Aware of U.S. American Indian Language Policy
- Task 2: Discover How American Indian and Indigenous Languages Around the World Are Endangered
- Task 3: Know About Efforts to Revitalize and Teach American Indian and Other Indigenous Languages
- Task 4: Learn About Tribal Language Immersion Schools
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