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Trina Goetz, STAR School

Cultural Considerations
Overview:
As teachers of Native American students we are challenged at meeting the needs of our students, all of who share a wide range of cultural beliefs. Through our years of teaching, we have encountered obstacles in teaching certain standards because of the cultural sensitivities of our students. Our goal is to create a resource for educators to learn about these cultural sensitivities in order to become more compassionate and effective in their teaching. We realize that this resource is a work in progress, that although we will be concentrating on the cultural sensitivities and considerations of Native Americans, we hope that our blog will encourage the learning of all cultures and becomes a resource for all educators to learn more about their students.
Written by:
Felicia Breeze, Thomas Jefferson Elementary School, Winslow, Arizona
Robert Woodruff, Mount Elden Middle School, Flagstaff, Arizona
{Albert.jpg} Albert Einstein visits Hopi House at the Grand Canyon, 1931. Photo by El Tovar Studios
Overview:
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Important Links to learn about some cultural sensitivities of some Native Americans:
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Our school has a program in which students get to take home a backpack of activities such as puzzles, a workbook, and several games. Included in this backpack is a very user-friendly video camera. The purpose of the backpack is to encourage children and their families to spend time together doing engaging activities. Research has shown that such time greatly affects student development into healthy, responsible adults. It was amazing to watch them film themselves with their families. I learned a lot about my students from watching the videos. They learned about directing videos, such things as camera position, audio, lighting. They really enjoyed being the stars of their own movies. Here, then, is a movie compiling a small sample of their directorial debuts. (Trina Goetz, 1st and 2nd grade)
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Our school has a program in which students get to take home a backpack of activities such as puzzles, a workbook, and several games. Included in this backpack is a very user-friendly video camera. The purpose of the backpack is to encourage children and their families to spend time together doing engaging activities. Research has shown that such time greatly affects student development into healthy, responsible adults. It was amazing to watch them film themselves with their families. I learned a lot about my students from watching the videos. They learned about directing videos, such things as camera position, audio, lighting. They really enjoyed being the stars of their own movies. Here, then, is a movie compiling a small sample of their directorial debuts. (Trina Goetz, 1st and 2nd grade)

The objective was to get my students to create a project using Photostory. To begin, they were given a digital camera and were limited to five pictures, school appropriate of course. When all students had taken their pictures, I uploaded them into a folder and copied it into each of my students' folders. My students then created their "movie" using tranitions and creating their own music for their project.
When they were all finished, we had Monday Matinee. We popped popcorn, invited our principal, and watched our "movies" all afternoon.
can learn. (Anna Morales, 6th Grade)
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Students in English III were asked to do a year end research project relating to American literature and culture. The student whose work is presented here chose from several options to do a Powerpoint slide show. His topic, inspired by a novel that he studied about the experiences of a U.S. army unit in Iraq, was a brief synopsis of the Vietnam War years and its aftermath (e.g. the controversial memorial by Maya Lin).
research presentation. (Eric Johnson, 11th grade)
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Cultural Awareness
As educators in Northern Arizona, we have encountered cultural taboos with our students, we created this blog/discussion in an attempt to educate ourselves through the help of others. This blog/discussion in open to any person who may have knowledge or advice to give educators as they attempt to teach their students while being sensitive to cultural beliefs. Thank you for your help and input!