Pedagogical
Terms
Terms
a practice in Indigenous cultures that sustains communities, validates experiences and epistemologies, expresses experiences of Indigenous peoples, and nurtures relationships and the sharing of knowledge.
Storytelling
How do I know what is real?
“the study of the nature of thinking or knowing”
(Wilson, S. (2008). Research Is Ceremony)
Epistemology
This specific part of the lesson plan ensures you adjust your lesson to the community (or students) to/in which you wish to teach it (take time to review the lesson plan template)
Accommodations/
Adaptive Dimension
The CCC that develops skills that can be drawn from ideas in Bloom’s taxonomy to organize the order of your lessons in a unit plan.
Developing Thinking
This scholar identified Indigenous pedagogy as being found in talking or sharing circles and dialogues, particiant observations, experiential learning, modeling, meditation, prayer, ceremonies, or storytelling
Dr. Marie Battiste
“A dynamic and emergent process that builds on student’s natural curiosity about the world in which they live. It places their questions and ideas at the center of the learning experience”.
Inquiry learning
The year Indian Control of Indian Education was written
1972
Anti___ education (fill in the blank) ensures there is a focus on addressing systemic issues that impact education where students realize judicial, gender, health, and financial oppression is realized and addressed as barriers to a thriving cultural existence.
Anti-Oppressive Education
Developing this provides “a variety of ways, including
the use of various language systems and media, to interpret the world and express understanding of it”.
Literacy or literacies
The first Director of ITEP, born on the Wikwemikong First Nation (community of Buzwah) on Manitoulin Island, Ont.
Cecil King
the approach to or art of teaching
PEDAGOGY
encapsulates the hopes, dreams, motivations and curiosity of pupils, their experiences in a school setting, and their past histories, regardless of what the planned curriculum indicates
Lived Curriculum
A teaching strategy that allows students to experience visiting a place where an event of injustice took place as opposed to reading about it
Experiential or place-based learning
The other 2 of 3
Broad Areas of Learning are:
2)Engaged Citizens
3) Sense of Self, Community,
and Place
Life-Long learners
A place that has (almost) daily drop in for assitance with formatting, drafting, and editing of writing
The Writing Centre, or Health Centre
“requires individuals be culturally competent. This competency is having an awareness of one's own cultural identity and views about difference, and the ability to learn and build on the varying cultural and community norms of students and their families”
Cultural Responsiveness
This scholar writes about Aboriginal education as being "at odds" with the present educatrion system. Competition, rivalry and survival of the fittest is at odds with the holistic, community-involved, cultural-based, and relationship building approaches of Aboriginal education.
Little Bear or Dr. Leroy Little Bear
Formal/Informal
Formative assessment strategies
Developing “this”
involves the ability to act autonomously in an interdependent world, be aware of the natural environment, social and cultural expectations and individual or group accomplishments.
Indentity and Interdependence
The mode of transportation all students pay for and have to renew each term (including spring/summer)
UPass, buss pass
“refers to making adjustments to four variables: learning environment, instruction, assessment and resources”
Adaptive Dimension
This philosopher fights to ensure teachers see students as more than just depositories and teachers are depositors of education.
Friere or Paolo Friere
"By choosing _________ I become more whole, but wholeness does not mean perfection. It means becoming more real by acknowledging the whole of who I am.
Hint: NOT "Identity"
Integrity
Parker Palmer - in, The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life.
This CCC is about “the ability to participate with others in accomplishing shared or common goals”.
Developing
Social Responsibility
A place where you can sign out private study rooms for groups, use a computer, make photocopies (with an account), or access curriculum materials to help make lesson plans
The Education Library