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Reviewed JAG competency and OSEU connections
J101 — Identify, understand, and apply knowledge of social roles
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Reviewed teaching connection (Supporting): Williams reflects on being a child, mother, and grandmother. Her account gives students concrete roles to compare and invites discussion of how responsibilities change across relationships.
Updated for Proposed August 9, 2024: The revised standard retains the meaning supported by the cited interview passage. Original JAG–interview approval retained.
She had taught me a lot. And when I see my children and my grandchildren, I always stop and think that this day I was mother and this day I was grandma.
Learn About: What roles and responsibilities does Williams describe across generations?
Learn From: How might understanding a role change the way someone supports a learner?
05 Wolakota Project Video Transcripts and URLs.docx · WP-0100 · video ID y7ucjjmJEcY · cited transcript passage. Teaching interpretation is separate from official wording and the interviewee’s account.
Q128 — Develop a career or educational plan which reflects personal goals, interests, and skills
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Reviewed teaching connection (Supporting): Her emphasis on education across generations supplies a relational context for educational planning. Students can identify sources of support; the account does not lay out admissions or career requirements.
Updated for Proposed August 9, 2024: The revised standard retains the meaning supported by the cited interview passage. Original JAG–interview approval retained.
She had taught me a lot. And when I see my children and my grandchildren, I always stop and think that this day I was mother and this day I was grandma.
Learn About: What roles and responsibilities does Williams describe across generations?
Learn From: How might understanding a role change the way someone supports a learner?
05 Wolakota Project Video Transcripts and URLs.docx · WP-0100 · video ID y7ucjjmJEcY · cited transcript passage. Teaching interpretation is separate from official wording and the interviewee’s account.
G38 — Evaluate a career plan to determine post-secondary options
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Reviewed teaching connection (Supporting): Williams describes encouragement to become educated. Students can consider who supports post-secondary exploration, alongside separate research into actual options and requirements.
Updated for Proposed August 9, 2024: The revised standard retains the meaning supported by the cited interview passage. Original JAG–interview approval retained.
She had taught me a lot. And when I see my children and my grandchildren, I always stop and think that this day I was mother and this day I was grandma.
Learn About: What roles and responsibilities does Williams describe across generations?
Learn From: How might understanding a role change the way someone supports a learner?
05 Wolakota Project Video Transcripts and URLs.docx · WP-0100 · video ID y7ucjjmJEcY · cited transcript passage. Teaching interpretation is separate from official wording and the interviewee’s account.
Interview transcript
I owe a lot to my grandmother, my mother's mother. She had recently passed away in August, and I didn't realize that my grandmother actually raised me from birth to, I believe I turned 7, and we went to live with my mother. And I didn't realize that my grandmother, that was the part of the important years from birth until that age, how she wanted me to know so much. She had taught me a lot. And when I see my children and my grandchildren, I always stop and think that this day I was mother and this day I was grandma. And, you know, my kids, I tell them that it is so important to become educated, you know, all the way to my takoshas, that this is it, this is it. And I had heard yesterday that we are going back to the same way that they, how would you say that, they took it, we're going to use that same tool to get it back.