1. Language Revitalization TREATY SIX EDUCATION COUNCIL
Determining Success In
Language Revitalization
TREATY SIX EDUCATION COUNCIL
Sylvia Weenie –TLC COORDINATOR
Sarah Thompson – COMPUTER TECH
Bernadine Graham –TLC COORDINATOR
First Nations Language Keepers Conference 2018

2. Teaching Sacred Language Curriculum
Piloting the curriculum with 11 Treaty Six Education Council (TSEC) Schools.
TSEC - part of the Language Team
Created for all Indigenous Languages in Saskatchewan
Plains Cree Swampy Cree Woodland Cree Saulteaux Nakoda Dakota Lakota Dene

3. prior to involvement with curriculum development
TSEC
prior to involvement with curriculum development
-Concern with results from data (decline in language growth)
-Research methods for success
-TPR (Total Physical Response)
-ASLA (Accelerated Second Language Acquisition)
-Training
Curriculum -combined strategies TPR and ASLA

4. Curriculum also creates many different opportunities for implementing other strategies for language learning, e.g.
- Learning Centres
- Elder’s Mentorship Programs
- Use of Technology
- Assessment Methods, etc

5. FOCUS ON THE PRE AND POST ONLINE ASSESSMENTS
This method:
- assists the teachers to identify areas of attention when delivering language instruction.
- ensures the success in our efforts for language revitalization in our TSEC schools.
- identifies the language growth from the assessment data.
- supports and reinforces the teachers’ confidence when seeing the results.

6. - Helps the students’ self-confidence
- Measures the success on a monthly basis through the use of the pre and post assessment tool
- Helps the students’ self-confidence
- Makes the students eager to engage in language learning when they receive immediate results

7. This assessment tool was developed by the Treaty Six Education Council team to align with the Saskatchewan Indigenous Cultural College (SICC), Teaching Sacred Language Curriculum.

8. The Assessment Page
Students’ information entry
-Name
-Grade
-Pre or post assessment

9. Page 1 to 20 assessment pages
-5 questions - monthly theme words
-5 questions - verbs / action word (TPR)
-10 phrases/sentences (ASLA)
No audio – to respect all communities
Upon completion - Submit

10. The Response Page
Once submitted the responses go directly to the TEACHER’S response sheet with:
- the student name
- mark
-and their responses

11. SAMPLE -Pre-test
At a glance the teacher knows immediately areas of difficulty

12. All responses are then entered into Open Admin
SAMPLE – Post-test
All responses are then entered into Open Admin

13. Sarah Thompson - Demonstration
Open Admin entries provides us with:
-student’s average
-class average
-school average
This information becomes very important in assisting the teachers:
- for planning
- meeting smart goals in their LIP (Learning Improvement Plans) for TLC
Sarah Thompson - Demonstration

14. TREATY SIX EDUCATION COUNCIL North Battleford, Saskatchewan