“linking service-learning partners in a technological time: exploring e-mentoring”
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“Linking Service-Learning Partners in a Technological Time: Exploring E-Mentoring”. Mary Moeller Assistant Professor Teaching, Learning and Leadership College of Education and Human Sciences South Dakota State University Linnea Lindemann Graduate Assistant - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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FIS - federal Indian boarding school in the U.S. (founded 1876)
Serves students in grades 9-12 from 30 different states and 60 different tribes
Works with SDSU in Flandreau Indian Success Academy (FISA)
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SDSU, the state’s land grant institution, has a mission to serve the people of the state
Ten percent of our state’s population is Native American
One percent of our student body is Native American
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Now in its 11th year of creating “Communities of Differences”
• 2 Primary Goals:
• “ help more Native American students prepare for and succeed in college”
• “make SDSU into the kind of place where that can happen”
• Lee, 2007
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•Success Academy now:
• Serves 250 students each year in grades 9-12 at FIS
• Involves more than 300 SDSU faculty, retired faculty and staff, and a greater number of students
• Has grown into “the premier diversity program at SDSU”
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•During 2009 spring semester, Human Relations (HR) (a required diversity course for pre-service teachers) began hosting an FISA workshop. •Workshop goals:
• develop relationships between HR and FISA students – diversity experience
• promote the career of teaching• help FISA students identify their Multiple
Intelligences through an on-line assessment• offer FISA students an artistic outlet to
showcase their individuality – Multiple Intelligence
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• FISA - Spring Semester only• 5 workshops led by HR students and SDSU faculty• 60 – 80 HR students serve as hosts• 60 - 75 FIS 9th Graders• Each workshop consisted
of three components: icebreaker, multiple intelligence quiz, and creative development
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“Acquire and demonstratethe knowledge, skills, and professional dispositionsnecessary to help allstudents learn.”
NCATE, 2008
At the end of our firstFISA semester, HR studentswanted more time with FIS students.
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At the end of our firstFISA semester, HR studentswanted more than 3 hours with FIS students.• Need - to interact longer and at a deeper level• Need – to see beyond stereotypes of reservation-poor or casino-rich.
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•Spring 2009 Opportunity to Extend Relationship
• $3,430 to fund a social networking site• Service-Learning goals - • to learn about themselves and opportunities available
through higher education, specifically, the career of teaching.
• to learn about the challenges and opportunities of becoming a teacher by viewing video clips of Native American teachers
• to identify candidates as mentors and role models
• Use of Ning Website was included in the SBB Grant.• Currently cost is $19.95 / month
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* Planning stages
• SDSU Native American Club input & advice
• Culturally appealing
• Wiconi Waste: Education – • Site opens for students in fall of 09
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• www.wiconiwasteeducation.ning.com• Social Networking Site
• Virtual Community• Designed to create mentor/mentee relationships
between HR students and FIS Students• Gallery to Display• Videos• Photos• Educational Forums
• Similar to Facebook or Myspace
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• 1st and 2nd semesters• FIS contact was with the
technology teacher
• Gallery• FIS art, photos,
and videos
• HR students visited face-to-face for one-hour in the fall
• HR students visit on campus for FISA in spring
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Added academic
content to social networking
• Tagged onto an SDSU Common Read
initiative
* Model & mentor FIS students in reading as our goal
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FIS and HR student shared Three Cups of Tea by reading:› “First cup you are a
stranger, second cup you are a friend, and third you are family” -Greg Mortenson, author
Face-to-face meeting at FIS to kick off book.
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•Shift in staffing at FIS• New teacher with no background in our project
* Students choose the higher book level•Shift in Curriculum
• No longer focusing on Three Cups of Tea• Other priorities took precedence over this
project.•Lack of access to computers
•Shift in administration
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Provide Human Relations students with experiences working with diverse student population in both face-to-face and online environments› Assessed through HR students reflections › Reactions ranged from frustration and
misunderstanding to hopeful and culturally aware› Quotes ---
› Verle Pipestem’s Letter & Reactions from HR students
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Assess teacher candidate understanding of and sensitivity to a diverse student population› Pre- and Post- course surveys › Cultural Diversity Awareness Inventory (CDAI)
HR students scored lower on Post in two subscales:› Self Efficacy & School Climate› Felt more ability to change climate & impact students
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•Build a position for a website manager into your project:• Need for sensitivity –
• Working with underage population• Working with culturally sensitive issues
• Need for time• Every posting and upload was monitored.
• Need for expertise • Every literary discussion posting was evaluated.
•Building community partner relationships is an on-going process.
• Be prepared to take the project in new directions to meet the needs.
• Cultivate relationships extensively so that you have multiple ties to the partner on different levels
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