Classroom Videos
The following classroom video segments illustrate teaching strategies.
Hawaiian Teaching Strategies
Henry Pali's Class
Henry Pali teaches at the Kualapuʻu Public Charter School. Through his teaching, students are learning Native Hawaiian culture, language, and values, connecting what they have learned about their heritage to projects on family history.
Mahina Hou Ross's Class
In this video segment, Mahina Hou Ross teaches his students at Molokaʻi High School about Native Hawaiian history and culture to connect the past and present, and to preserve the Hawaiian way of learning even as he teaches non-Hawaiian topics.
Primary Sources
Nālei Kahakalau's Class
In this video segment, Nālei Kahakalau and his students from Kanu o Ka 'Aina School visit the Bishop Museum to analyze and research primary source documents and images from Waikiki to study how it has changed from the 1890s to the 1970s.
Nino Murray's Class
In this video segment, Nino Murray and his students at the Waiakea Intermediate School discuss what they have learned about the Japanese immigrant experience in Hawaiʻi during the plantation era from using primary sources in their research.
Place Based Learning
Mahina Hou Ross's Class
In this video segment, Mahina Hou Ross teaches his students at Molokaʻi High School about Native Hawaiian history and culture to connect the past and present, and to preserve the Hawaiian way of learning even as he teaches non-Hawaiian topics.
