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2010 Learning Styles Camp
from Alaska Native Knowledge Network - Friday, 25 June 2010, 11:07 am
 
For more information, please contact Sheila Vent, sheila@ainealaska.org

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July 27-30
AINE Learning Styles Workshop
Target Audience: Certified 4-12th grade and post-secondary educators
Maximum number of participants: 15

Integrating a Traditional Athabascan Story in Today’s Classroom Using Learning Styles Instruction

Course Prerequisite: AINE Learning Styles Institute or permission of instructors
Guest Presenters: Beth Leonard, Ph.D., UAF School of Education
Instructor: Sharon Barker Attla M.Ed.
Campsite: This workshop will be held as a four day/three night camp at Howard Luke's Gaaleeyaa Camp on the Tanana River near Fairbanks, AK

COURSE DESCRIPTION
Participants will explore a traditional Athabascan story - The Old Man Who Came Down from the Second Layer of the World by Belle Deacon - following the deeper cultural contexts of the story, pedagogy for teaching, and reviewing the importance of teaching indigenous lessons in today's classroom within the context of NCLB in the schools. Participants will also review the Dunn & Dunn methodology of implementing learning styles in an academically rigorous and supportive learning environment.

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