NESA Activities Handbook for Native and Multicultural Classrooms, Volume 1

by Don Sawyer, Howard Green

This is the first of three volumes of educational activities for use in First Nations and multicultural classrooms. The activities stress the importance of culture in students' lives, and teaches them basic personal and community-related skills so they may become more self-reliant and culturally responsible.The Native Education Services Associates are a group of teaching professionals with extensive experience in Native and multicultural education. Their materials provide educators with meaningful and appropriate culturally-based learning resources and are also designed to enhance understanding between ethnic and cultural groups.

138 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 30, 2010

About the author

I am an educator and writer living in Salmon Arm, BC with my wife, Jan, and Finnish Lapphund (well, he’s a rescue dog, but that’s my story and I’m sticking to it) Farley. About five years ago I retired from Okanagan College, where I had taught adult education, served as the college’s ABE Department Chair, Director of the International Development Centre, and Curriculum Director of the Native Adult Education Resource Centre. While with the IDC, I coordinated and managed five CIDA-funded development projects in West Africa, including the West African Rural Development Centre (WARD) project, shortlisted for the 2005 Canadian development project of the year.

I am the author of more than 10 books, including the award-winning young adult novel Where the Rivers Meet (Pemmican); a non-fiction account of my first teaching experiences in rural Newfoundland (Tomorrow Is School, Bendall Books); several children’s books, including The Meanest Teacher in the World and Miss Flint Meets the Great Kweskin (Chestnut Publishing); a series of novels for beginning adult readers, and numerous curriculum guides and manuals. My essays have appeared in most of Canada’s major newspapers.