Program: C&I Advanced
Individual(s) Completing Report: Morgen Alwell
Date Submitted: April, 2013
Purpose: The information below documents activities addressing Indian Education For All.
1. Describe in a brief statement (beyond a course number and title) how the program addresses Indian Education for All, including the Essential Understandings Regarding Montana Indians.
C&I 514, Education Across Cultures, is the directed course addressing IEFA tenets in our graduate program. In addition, IEFA and other Native American content is embedded in mulitple additional courses, including:
502, Philosophy of Education
504, History of American Education
508, Sociology of Education
510, Advanced Educational Psychology
515, Educational Technology
518, Inclusion & Collaboration
2. List and provide artifacts (student work, course readings/resources, content taught, guest speakers) that constitute evidence of instruction regarding Indian Education for All (in electronic or paper format).
These artifacts are provided in the IR: http://coehs.umt.edu/deanoffice/accred/ncate/iefa/
They include:
502, http://www.russellmeans.com/speeches.swf
504, Selected chapters and readings from, The School in the United States (2nd ed.) by James Frasier
508, Red Pedagogy, by Sandy Grande
508, Student work samples
508, Indian Boarding Schools from PBS from Indian Country Diaries
http://www.pbs.org/indiancountry/history/boarding.html
508, Mondale, S. & Patton, S. (2001). School: The Story of American Public Education. Boston, MA: Beacon Press.
510, Bloom Chapter 7
510, Culture and Cognition
514, Cross Article
514, Educating Native Americans
514, Two Worlds
515,IEFA embedded in the foundation of 370 and 515 through Montana’s Technology Standards
518, Building A Collaborative Relationship With CLD Families
518, Children's Lit Assignment
518, Teaching Tolerance Materials
518, Universal Design for Learning Assignments
518, Application Assignment
3. Describe how student performance is assessed regarding Indian Education for All.
Student performance is assessed in a variety of ways. 514 has assignments explicitly directed toward IEFA and students are evaluated on knowledge of IEFA tenets. In the other courses, the essential understandings are embedded through out, with application of knowledge reflected in student work samples and professional behaviors.