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Download full textBowsley, Virginia; Dugi, Audrelia; Gonnie, Pat; Heimbecker, Connie; Jennings, Marianne; Medina, Catherine; Sorgnit, Heather; Watt, Carolyn; Prater, Greg – 2000
The Kayenta Unified School District (KUSD)(Arizona) transition program helps prepare Dine (Navajo) special education students for postsecondary opportunities within their own communities and outside the Navajo Reservation. The senior transition class entails a year-long course that focuses on the application process for tribal and federal…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Case Studies, High Schools, Navajo (Nation)
Heimbecker, Connie; Minner, Sam; Prater, Greg – 2000
This paper describes two exemplary school-based Native teacher education programs offered by Northern Arizona University (NAU) to serve Navajo students and by Lakehead University (Ontario) to serve members of the Nishnabe Nation of northern Ontario. The Reaching American Indian Special/Elementary Educators (RAISE) program is located in Kayenta,…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Canada Natives, College School Cooperation, Foreign Countries
Medina, Catherine; Redsteer, Denise; Prater, Greg; Minner, Sam – 2002
To address the need for special education teachers trained in rural and culturally diverse settings, a field-based special education program was implemented in Kayenta Unified School District (KUSD), Arizona, on the Navajo Nation. KUSD provided teacher housing, classroom space, sites for practicum coursework, and some student teaching placements.…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indian Reservations, Culturally Relevant Education, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedSealander, Karen; Eigenberger, Martin; Peterson, Patricia; Shellady, Suzanne; Prater, Greg – Rural Special Education Quarterly, 2001
Three Arizona programs aim to train culturally and linguistically diverse general and special educators who understand the needs and strengths of rural communities. Native Americans and Mexican Americans from rural areas who want to work with special needs populations are recruited, as well as whites. Many are paraprofessionals, working full time…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, College School Cooperation, Extension Education, Geographic Isolation
Minner, Sam; Prater, Greg – 1994
In response to a problem in recruiting and retaining special education teachers on the Navajo Reservation, the Rural Special Education Project (RSEP) was designed to prepare special education teachers to deliver quality services to Navajo children with handicapping conditions. The RSEP is a partnership between Northern Arizona University and the…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indian Reservations, Anglo Americans, College School Cooperation
Peer reviewedPrater, Greg; And Others – Rural Special Education Quarterly, 1996
A Northern Arizona University program prepares preservice special education teachers to work with Native American children and families. University students live on the Navajo reservation and receive practical classroom experience at Kayenta Unified School District (Arizona). Anglo students are paired with Navajo students who act as "cultural…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Education, American Indian Reservations, Anglo Americans
