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Reviewed JAG competency and OSEU connections
H74 — Demonstrate an eagerness to learn new responsibilities or improve current responsibilities
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Reviewed teaching connection (Supporting): DeCory describes continuing to learn while recognizing that no one knows everything. Students can name a skill they want to improve and a person or source they could learn from.
Updated for Proposed August 9, 2024: The revised standard retains the meaning supported by the cited interview passage. Original JAG–interview approval retained.
Even him in his humility…and knowing that you can’t know everything…but you should continue to strive to know those things. Don’t ever give up.
Learn About: What does DeCory say about humility and continuing to learn?
Learn From: How could recognizing a gap in knowledge support a practical next step?
05 Wolakota Project Video Transcripts and URLs.docx · WP-0190 · video ID ppq7tfAgB2s · cited transcript passage. Teaching interpretation is separate from official wording and the interviewee’s account.
H77 — Demonstrate the ability to self-evaluate and develop a continuous improvement plan
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Reviewed teaching connection (Supporting): Recognizing a knowledge gap supports self-evaluation. Students can turn that recognition into an improvement step; the source does not provide a complete workplace evaluation system.
Updated for Proposed August 9, 2024: The revised standard retains the meaning supported by the cited interview passage. Original JAG–interview approval retained.
Even him in his humility…and knowing that you can’t know everything…but you should continue to strive to know those things. Don’t ever give up.
Learn About: What does DeCory say about humility and continuing to learn?
Learn From: How could recognizing a gap in knowledge support a practical next step?
05 Wolakota Project Video Transcripts and URLs.docx · WP-0190 · video ID ppq7tfAgB2s · cited transcript passage. Teaching interpretation is separate from official wording and the interviewee’s account.
G56 — Analyze strengths and weaknesses
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Reviewed teaching connection (Supporting): Humility about knowledge provides a lens for examining strengths and limitations. Students can identify evidence of a strength and an area needing support without equating a limitation with personal failure.
Updated for Proposed August 9, 2024: The revised standard retains the meaning supported by the cited interview passage. Original JAG–interview approval retained.
Even him in his humility…and knowing that you can’t know everything…but you should continue to strive to know those things. Don’t ever give up.
Learn About: What does DeCory say about humility and continuing to learn?
Learn From: How could recognizing a gap in knowledge support a practical next step?
05 Wolakota Project Video Transcripts and URLs.docx · WP-0190 · video ID ppq7tfAgB2s · cited transcript passage. Teaching interpretation is separate from official wording and the interviewee’s account.
H61 — Demonstrate initiative and proactivity
Explore H61 · Relatives Teaching - Jace DeCory - OSEU 3 · OSEU 3
Reviewed teaching connection (Supporting): The encouragement to continue striving supports taking initiative in learning. Students can identify a purposeful first step instead of waiting to be told every action.
Updated for Proposed August 9, 2024: The revised standard retains the meaning supported by the cited interview passage. Original JAG–interview approval retained.
Even him in his humility…and knowing that you can’t know everything…but you should continue to strive to know those things. Don’t ever give up.
Learn About: What does DeCory say about humility and continuing to learn?
Learn From: How could recognizing a gap in knowledge support a practical next step?
05 Wolakota Project Video Transcripts and URLs.docx · WP-0190 · video ID ppq7tfAgB2s · cited transcript passage. Teaching interpretation is separate from official wording and the interviewee’s account.
Interview transcript
And certainly…back in the day when different relatives were our different teachers…like our aunties and our uncles… even today, my uncles…my cousins who are my kid’s uncles…they know if I need some sort of behavior modification…like they are doing things that they are not supposed to be doing…they know I will call me cousin Jay…”Jay, can you talk with Dawson now? He needs some man talk now.” And so, that kind of kinship ties into our culture and our traditions…where our relatives were a part of our upbringing. And I still think that is important today…that key relatives be a part of my son’s lives as well as my grandchildren’s lives now. I want them to learn the traditions and continue those on so that their kids also will know those traditions. There’s lots of teachings out there…a lot of things to now. We are never going to know everything. Grandpa Fools Crow used to say, “Maybe when I go to the other side, to the spirit world, maybe then I will gain more knowledge after I go over there.” And he probably knew the most about spiritual ceremonies than many of us. Even him in his humility…and knowing that you can’t know everything…but you should continue to strive to know those things. Don’t ever give up.