My Student Is Developing An Understanding Of The World, Local And Regional Cultures

Currently, general education classrooms have increasingly become diverse with both disable students and students from different linguistic and cultural backgrounds. In order for educators to ensure that they effectively teach these classrooms, meet the needs of each student both successfully and individually, effective research that is based on strategies need to be implemented. The U.S. Department of Education suggest that, the current school-age population is becoming more diverse as time passes, yet, majority of the teachers in these schools are white non-Hispanic women. According to another report by The Condition of Education in 2006, American schools are portraying increased diversity and growth. The report suggested that, forty two percent of students in public schools were ethnic or racial minorities in the year 2003; this increased from twenty two percent since 1972. Owing to these reasons, teachers in these schools are expected to educate a diversified class of students including those that come from diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds. Teachers are therefore, required to implement a number of key strategies that will ensure that every student in specific classroom feels that he or she belongs there (Worrell, 2010).

Based on the observation, yes the student were aware on the language and content that was being used to access the activity. The children were asking questions and observing the examples giving to do the activity lesson; and there were assistant when they had difficulties. During the lesson there were a few children who needed more help trying to figure out what to do; because they were not getting it. The language the teacher used and the content was clear and consist of every detail, to understand what she was teaching and what she wanted them to learn.

The life experience during the kid’s time is one of most important time in the life. I have learned this by the hard way. When people looking for how should their kids to learn, I think people should pay more attention to what are their kids learning. Times are changing, the old thought of teaching might not fit in today anymore. I am always hoping one day today’s student could teach kids， because today’s student knows more about what kids like, what should kids know at this time of the day. SEU’s CCU class’s Cultural Engagement Assignment have given me a chance to see my childhood dream in life. I have decided to go one of the activity on Saturday. I have gone three times, first time I want is because I have to; the second time I want is because I like it and I want to do something I can to help the kids, also I want to know about the kids grow up in the family that not so good. Before I want the activity, my understanding of “Cultural Engagement,” is the connection between the people and the cultural, but after I want the activity, my understanding of “Cultural Engagement” has changed, it became what kind of culture for the kids have been growing up have affected to their dream and behavior. I will never forget a point that so many pastors have mentioned - Christians should never need to tell others that they are Christian but people should able to tell that we are Christian. As being Christian, we need to show the love to others and share the God’s words and

The world culture has many different meanings depending on the person you ask. Each person has their own view on what they think culture is. To me, culture could be defined as different puzzle pieces that come together to create a person socially, physically and mentally. According to Chapter Three, Culture and the Culture-Learning Process, authors Cushner, McClelland, and Safford (2009) talks about culture and defines it as “Culture determines, to a large extent, people 's thoughts, ideas, patterns of interaction, and material adaptions to the world around them” (p. 61). This definition of culture explains that everyone culture is different based on their environment and influences around them. Culture starts at home and can then branch

Government and accreditation authorities have also incorporated cultural competence in strategic planning of health services in Australia (Victorian Department of Health 2009, 2011a, 2011b)

According to Belonging, Being & Becoming, the Educators’ Guide ‘we need to ‘think about our own values, beliefs and attitudes related to diversity and difference and acknowledge and address any bias that we may hold’. As well as critically examining our own assumptions, ‘cultural competence’ requires early childhood educators to take a strong approach to countering racism and bias when we encounter it. This will require educators to make a conscious decision to promote children’s cultural competence in order to build and maintain an inclusive Australian society.

I think that the best way to improve children’s understanding and respect for different cultures is to expose them to other cultures and encourage them to be inquisitive and ask questions. For example, it could be a good idea to put up a map of the world or pictures of flags from different countries so that the children see this and can discover a curiosity for the world. (Chen, et al., 2011) This also allows children from other backgrounds to see that their heritage is included and accepted at the centre. Another way to entwine a variety of cultures into the centre is to ensure that the toys that the children play with represent different cultures. For example, the centre could include dolls of many different races, include a range of play

participation in work with young children. To start off with diversity it is where children learn about

My students are capable of learning and have days where they can interact and question the topic but days where they cannot get themselves to even consider the topic as well. Most often than not even if one of my students (college prep classes) understands what is being discussed, they will shy away at the idea of sharing what they understand. They are very self-conscience about their knowledge. With their student view of the class they believe they are the only ones that are learning something new while I as a teacher know they are all in similar pages and would benefit from listening to their

B. Day 1: The subject look very disinterested at class. While the teacher was discussing about the code of conduct in class regarding cell phones the subject was on her smartphone. The teacher made us repeat the words to our classmates. She sat there and still proceeded to look at her phone. She doesn’t seem to be interested of the class. Day 2: Mr. teacher gives the students the first 5 minutes of class to write in their journals. The teacher also gives the students prompts on the board if they don’t know what they want to write. While most of the students are sitting there answering the prompt on the

Since this experience is composed of historically or culturally heavy learning events, it is perhaps a wise choice to choose someone who has the desire to learn and is capable of learning. As is demonstrated by my mark in all three assessments, I achieve A+ in both listening and reading, which means that I can probably understand more cultural background of the cities and follow the instruction better than some of the other applicants. In addition to that, I am willing to face both physical and mental challenges.

Teachers guides, facilities and encourage students to become life-long learners during their school years. Besides teaching them academics, we build relationships and community through their school year. Coupled with, create on the student autonomy of their own learning to grow up and become professionals. Equally important, teachers become learners when building those relationships in order to create a culturally responsive classroom. The course Enhancing Learning through Linguistic and Cultural Diversity has shown me the importance of why getting to know the students that we have in the classroom. Dr. Garcia (n.d) explained the importance of using the five R’s not only in the classroom, but also in the school environment. In addition, he focused on the importance of getting to know the roots of the students, where they come from, how they were raised, know their culture in order to connect them to the learning.

This student is often disengaged from the instruction, but I was able to keep him engaged most of the times by having an interaction with the student. This student was somewhat familiar with the scientific terms, therefore, I have defined the scientific words with the student. In addition, I was able to keep him engaged throughout the lesson with the hands-on activity. This student is very shy, so I became his partner for the pair-share. This was very effective because I was able to get a correct answer from this student. After I got him to talk during the pair-share, he gained some confidence and he began to contribute his ideas to his group.

Doing my practicum at the Regina Immigrant Women Centre had given me an opportunity to watch the staff interacting with the clients who came from different cultural backgrounds. It also provided me with an opportunity to develop and enhance my own cultural sensitivity when dealing with people that came from different cultural backgrounds. I also gained the opportunity to put into effect some of the theoretical skills such as acceptance of cultural differences between people, empathy, warmth, and a capacity to respond flexibly to a range of possible situations regarding settlement needs. I learned to be very respectful of each person’s culture because of the examples that were set by the RIWC staff and also was able to connect it to JS 460.

Children are brought up according to their cultural practices.In childcare centres children belonging to various cultures can be found.Children may be familiar with the practices of their own culture.So its important to identify the culture of each child.Respecting their culture is really important in the centre.Then the parent feels that they are respected here.Their child is comfortable,safe,valued here.