Turtle Mountain Native Ways of Knowing Science Teacher Training Project

Turtle Mountain Community College, Belcourt ND

Investigators

Abstract

The Native Ways of Knowing Science Teacher Training Project will establish a fully accredited baccalaureate degree program in secondary science teacher education at Turtle Mountain Community College. This program will be designed to train science teachers that will serve reservation and near reservation schools with significant percentages of American Indian students. The project has a number of elements. These include a standards based component that will prepare students for certification in North Dakota and to meet national standards; the development and implementation of Native Ways of Knowing, place based, and experiential curriculum strategies; recruitment into the program; a strong educational technology component; a job placement component; and a distance learning component.