Curriculum in Cultural Context

Creating Curriculum in Cultural Context Workshop

This workshop is designed for K-12 Arts & Non Arts Teachers to develop high quality curriculum and learning experiences In and Through the Arts aligned with state and national standards that address the cultural and artistic diversity of communities across Minnesota, the United States and the world.

Logistics

Designed for K-12 Arts & Non Arts Teachers to develop high quality curriculum and learning experiences In and Through the Arts aligned with state and national standards that address the cultural and artistic diversity of communities across Minnesota, the United States and the world.

Participants will work with Perpich Outreach Staff & Consultants to:

experience interactive model lessons and facilitated dialog that reflect a variety of cultures including Minnesota American Indian tribes and communities.
share and receive feedback on existing curriculum and resources with
examine, revise and develop new ways to integrate resources into their programming.
identify learning goals and appropriate implementation of benchmarks which address a variety of cultures including contributions of MN American Indian tribes and communities
Ask questions and create some next steps for revising and/or developing new culturally and artistically diverse curriculum

Agenda

April 29, 2015

9:00 am – 3:00 pm

Gathering and Registration

Introductions, Welcome, and who is in the room? (15 minutes)

The Danger of a Single Story Chimimanda Ngochi Adichie – View and Reflect

- Making Connections: How do you know what you don’t know? Using a cultural lens for

standards alignment, curriculum and assessment

- National Standards & Common Core

- Introduction to Perpich Library Resources as curriculum resources

Lunch

Break out sessions: Compare and Contrast resources which reflect a variety of cultures including Minnesota American Indian tribes and communities

- Lyz Jaakola – music in cultural context

- Jeremy Holien – visual and media arts in cultural context

- Diane Aldis – dance in cultural context

- Leah & Barbara Literacy – theater, text – fiction – non-fiction in cultural context

- Darlene St. Clair – cultural resource

Work time: Curriculum development; Review and Select Resources

(Lyz, Jeremy, Diane, Leah, Barbara and Darlene circulate)

Sharing out ideas

Adjourn

The Value of Starting with Respond Protocols BEFORE Making Art

Here is a clip that shows Alston, a student applying the use of Critical Response to the "chicken" painting at the Weisman Art Museum. If you view this clip you will see the transformative learning that happens when we build in inquiry-based learning strategies to culturally relevant curriculum and grant sessions. See the clip here. Additional information about how this work can be included within artful writing is located here. In regards to the MN Academic Standards related to this content, it does not require students to make art. It asks them to respond. Critical Response holds great value in allowing the space for students to more deeply investigate works art and has merit as a form of study PRIOR to any creating of art that might be connected to a variety of cultures.

Critical Response with Laura Youngbird's Artwork

Want a direct link to the Critical Response Presentation that I referenced about Laura Youngbird's work? Then feel free to download your own copy in PDF, Apple Keynote, or Microsoft PowerPoint versions here. You can also check out a video done by Pioneer Public Television about her work and techniques in the video below.

MN American Indian Dance - Lesson Exemplar

The 6-8 Arts Standards include the benchmark requiring students to: Compare and contrast the connections among works in dance, their purposes and their cultural, historical and social contexts, including the contributions of Minnesota American Indian tribes and communities (Dance 6.1.3.1.1 )

As a starting point for meeting that benchmark, this model lesson uses two videos Women's Fancy Shawl Dance in different settings and contexts along with suggested tools for examining the video:

Liz Lerman's Four Questions

Liz Lerman is a choreographer, performer, writer, educator and speaker who been the recipient of numerous honors, including a 2002 MacArthur "Genius Grant" Fellowship and a 2011 United States Artists Ford Fellowship. A key aspect of her artistry is opening her process to various publics from shipbuilders to physicists, construction workers to ballerinas, resulting in both research and outcomes that are participatory, relevant, urgent, and usable by others. All of her projects are framed from these three essential questions, to which we have added two questions focusing on teacher practice.

See the presentation below:

Iyekiyapiwin (Darlene St. Clair)

Associate Professor of American Indian Studies for the Department of Ethnic Studies

Director of Multicultural Resource Center

St. Cloud State University

St. Cloud State University, 4th Avenue South, Saint Cloud, MN, United States dkstclair@stcloudstate.edu (320) 308-6476 stcloudstate.edu/

Lyz Jaakola

Enrolled member of Fond du Lac band of Lake Superior Ojibwe

Musician

Music and American Indian Studies Faculty

Fond du Lac Tribal & Community College.

Fond Du Lac Tribal and Community College, 14th Street, Cloquet, MN, United States ljaakola@fdltcc.edu 218-879-0721 fdltcc.edu/

Creating Curriculum in Cultural Context Workshop

When

Wednesday, April 29th 2015 at 9am-3pm

Where

Brookside Educational Center - 211 Richway Dr Albert Lea, Mn

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Native Studies Summer Workshop for Educators For details and registration, please click here.

Native Studies Summer Workshop for Educators

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Jeremy Holien

Curriculum in Cultural Context

EMID & Perpich Workshop Series 3/25/15, 4/9/15, & 5/7/15

Curriculum in Cultural Context

EMID & Perpich Workshop Series 3/25/15, 4/9/15, & 5/7/15

Creating Curriculum in Cultural Context Workshop

Agenda

Session Resources:

The danger of a single story

The Value of Starting with Respond Protocols BEFORE Making Art

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Break Out Session with Jeremy Holien

Critical Response Protocol: The Art of Laura Youngbird

Critical Response with Laura Youngbird's Artwork

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Break Out Session with Diane and Lyz

MN American Indian Dance - Lesson Exemplar

Liz Lerman's Four Questions

Lerman 4 Questions

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Break Out Session with Barbara and Leah

Albert Lea Literacy Break-out Session Overview

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Our Presenters Today:

Iyekiyapiwin (Darlene St. Clair)

Lyz Jaakola

Diane Aldis

Barbara Cox

Jeremy Holien

Leah Delia Larson

Creating Curriculum in Cultural Context Workshop

Wednesday, April 29th 2015 at 9am-3pm

Brookside Educational Center - 211 Richway Dr Albert Lea, Mn

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Native Studies Summer Workshop for Educators

Native Studies Summer Workshop for Educators

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