Hmong And Native American Students: Education and Learning Styles
Sectional Presentations. Disproving the Deficiency Model: Understanding the Needs of Hmong and Native American Education – Both Hmong and Native American students often bring a unique view of education and learning styles which can add tremendously to regular classroom practice. However, both Hmong and Native American students and cultures are often disregarded by teachers as deficient and students are relegated to remedial or restrictive environments.
Sectional Presentations
Tuesday, June 30, 3009 | 8:45 – 9:45 AM SECTIONALS | Disproving the Deficiency Model: Understanding the Needs of Hmong and Native American Education | Www.Createwisconsin.Net
Both Hmong and Native American students often bring a unique view of education and learning styles which can add tremendously to regular classroom practice. However, both Hmong and Native American students and cultures are often disregarded by teachers as deficient and students are relegated to remedial or restrictive environments. It is important to explore stereotypes of deficiency and what Indigenous education can offer the educational experience of all students. Handouts will be provided. · Matthew Stewart, Co-Chair of the Native American Hmong Initiative, WIEA Member. · Xong Xiong, President of the Av Liab Foundation, Hmong Educator and Community Organizer.
One of the problems with catering to student is that they’ll get use to one way of learning. The reason so many immigrants became successful is not through the school or teacher conforming to the student but the student to the system. This is not to say there shouldn’t be bridging teaching techniques to bring students to the system. The world teaches in many different ways we need to prep students for this. But without a base system the student will not grasp other systems.