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Bemidji State University Department of Music Perpich Center for Arts Education, and American Indian Resource Center
 * Learning Goals Aligned with National Board Teacher Certification:**

1. (Knowledge) Participants know they must seek out and build culturally responsive partnerships to implement the 2009 Revised Minnesota Academic Standards in the Arts

2. (Knowledge) Participants increase their personal knowledge about resources for teaching about Minnesota American Indian tribes and communities

MN Native history & culture
· What tribes are in MN · Some of the history especially as it pertains to education and arts education · Other types of contributions tribes have made to mainstream culture · How to find/contact/interact with a culture-bearer

Pow-wow music
· What it sounds like: identifying characteristics (pow-wow prep & activity) · How to talk about it as Natives may think about it · How to describe & present about it so students can learn to Identify, Describe, Compare and Analyze It

Visual Arts & Regalia
· What it looks like: identifying characteristics (making their piece of regalia & observing at pow-wow) · How to talk about it as Natives may think about it · How to describe & present about it so students can learn to Identify, Describe, Compare and Analyze It 3. (Performance/Product) Participants work together and in partnerships to develop sharable adaptations of curriculum i. Individual teachers draft/adapt at least one lesson addressing the arts benchmark identifying, describing, comparing and contrasting, and analyzing the contributions of Minnesota Indian Tribes and Communities that is:

· Aligned (Standards - Learning Goals - Assessment - Evaluation) · Organized and designed to promote depth of learning using a large learning process · Intentional and incrementally scaffolded with learning tools for student success · Embedded with best practices for student success in content areas, including practices for culturally response teaching and learning