How to learn by watching and practicing
Paying attention - DADIRRI |
Tuning in |
Learning by doing |
Mentorship is visual
This Indigenous teaching & learning framework is expressed as eight interconnected pedagogies involving narrative-driven learning, visualised learning plans, hands-on/reflective techniques, use of symbols/metaphors, land-based learning, indirect/synergistic logic, modelled/scaffolded genre mastery, and connectedness to community. But these can change in different settings.
New Learning: Transformational Designs for Pedagogy and Assessment
New Learning: Transformational Designs for Pedagogy and Assessment
Story Sharing: Approaching learning through narrative.
Learning Maps: Explicitly mapping/visualising processes.
Non-verbal: Applying intra-personal and kinaesthetic skills to thinking and learning.
Symbols and Images: Using images and metaphors to understand concepts and content.
Land Links: Place-based learning, linking content to local land and place.
Non-linear: Producing innovations and understanding by thinking laterally or combining systems.
Deconstruct/Reconstruct: Modelling and scaffolding, working from wholes to parts (watch then do).
Community Links: Centring local viewpoints, applying learning for community benefit.
Learning Maps: Explicitly mapping/visualising processes.
Non-verbal: Applying intra-personal and kinaesthetic skills to thinking and learning.
Symbols and Images: Using images and metaphors to understand concepts and content.
Land Links: Place-based learning, linking content to local land and place.
Non-linear: Producing innovations and understanding by thinking laterally or combining systems.
Deconstruct/Reconstruct: Modelling and scaffolding, working from wholes to parts (watch then do).
Community Links: Centring local viewpoints, applying learning for community benefit.
Perpetual Salish: Coast Salish Art in the Classroom encourages Visual Thinking Strategies to help learners discover and grow not only their curiosity and understanding of Coast Salish art, but also of their critical and observational skills in all areas of life.
Bird Transformation, John Marston, Yellow cedar, abalone, cedar root, cedar bark and acrylic paint, 2013
Bird Transformation, John Marston, Yellow cedar, abalone, cedar root, cedar bark and acrylic paint, 2013
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Objective understanding is the premise of much of this literacy, but subjective and affective aspects of knowing are equally important. |
MENTORSHIP INSPIRATION for instructors & learners
FOLLOW THE IMAGES!
Inter-generational Learning Comes Full Circle
Exerpt: "As a young child I developed a sense of place from the stories my grandfather told me. Now that I am a grandparent—I recognize I have more patience with my grandchildren than I did with my own child. And I have much to give back through storytelling. Elders and grandparents have an important role, and are seen as teachers. " |
Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) is a research-based education nonprofit that believes thoughtful, facilitated discussion of art activates transformational learning accessible to all. This project uses VTS in science.
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image credits
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eight aboriginal ways of learning graphic: New Learning
bird transformation: John Marston red-winged blackbird: Jon D. Anderson place: J Carnahan ancient stone circle: pixabay story: A Hilker mentorship: A Hilker all other images from pixabay or Weebly, no attribution required |
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