Courses
LDL 352 Teaching Traditional Lakota Flute
This course is an introduction on how to make, play and teach the Lakota flute. It has been designed to be an accessible educational curriculum for classroom and individual use, to re-introduce tribal youth and Native American music enthusiasts to the traditional tuning and songs of the Lakota peoples of the Northern Plains. The course will also address organizational and classroom management techniques for the music classroom, as well as the use of different teaching modalities to address diverse learning needs.LDL 102 Teaching Lakota/Dakota II Methods
This course is an intensive practical overview of teaching Lakota using the Speak Lakota! Level 1 & 2 textbooks. This course will emphasize teaching reading skills in Lakota through the concepts of advance organizers and schema; teaching structures and grammar through contextualized exercises; teaching vocabulary through props, flahscards and Total Physical Response methods; and teaching conversational skills through task-based small-group activities. We will address the specific materials in each unit of the Level 1 and Level 2 textbooks. We will also address classroom management techniquLDL 121 Intensive Lakota/Dakota for Beginners 1
This is a course on Lakota as a second language. It is designed for second language learners of Lakota who are at the beginners level. The course will offer dynamic language teaching methods and classroom strategies based on communicative language teaching and other modern methods, such as task-based and learner-based language teaching. The aim of the course is to provide the students with a large amount of exposure to the language and to work on all four language skills (i.e. reading, writing, listening comprehension, speaking). The course will also help the students to become active self