NLTE140 Parent & Community Partnerships in Native Language Teacher Education

Parent and Community Partnerships in NLTE provides candidates with skills necessary to work effectively in partnership with parents, community members, colleagues, and institutions in Native language education contexts. The course will highlight a variety of communication, conflict resolution, and collaboration strategies and approaches. Additionally, candidates will review the Professional Educators of Montana Code of Ethics, as well as learn about important concepts required to work effectively with tribal entities and communities, especially those of the Flathead Reservation.

Through Parent and Community Partnerships in NLTE, candidates will have the opportunity to visit, build relationships with, and complete at least 10 hours job shadowing educators in immersion or Salish language settings. Candidates will also be required to collaborate with a tribal and/or language education entity to complete a mutually beneficial 30-hour service-learning project. Candidates will be required to apply the understandings they gain throughout the course work with such an entity to research community needs, design a project based on a particular need, and then engage in volunteer service to meet the need.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

none

Corequisite

none

Offered

W