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The American Indian Education KnowledgeBase is an online resource to aid education professionals in their efforts to serve American Indian students and close the achievement gap American Indian students have faced in public, Bureau of Indian Affairs, and other schools.
- Element 1: Foundations and Current Status of American Indian Education
- Activity 1: Understand the History of American Indian Education
- Task 1: Understand the Assimilationist History of American Indian Education
- Task 2: Learn about the Indian New Deal of the 1930s
- Task 3: Understand the Impact of the Indian Self-Determination and Civil Rights Movements on Indian Education
- Activity 2: Understand the Current Status of American Indian Education
- Element 2: American Indian Cultures
- Activity 1: Be Aware of Tribal and Family Structures
- Task 1: Understand Federal and State Tribal Recognition
- Task 2: Understand Eligibility for Tribal Membership
- Task 3: Be Familiar with the Structure of Tribes, Clans, Bands, and Extended Families
- Activity 2: Understand American Indian Traditional Tribal Values
- Element 3: Understanding Your School and Community
- Activity 1: Take a Snapshot of Your School and Community
- Task 1: Get Organized for Data Collection
- Task 2: Examine Student Performance Data
- Task 3: Gather Information About the Local American Indian Tribes
- Task 4: Summarize Snapshot Findings
- Activity 2: Work With and Involve Community and Parents
- Element 4: Utilize Culturally Responsive Teaching Methodologies
- 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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