Statement Of Purpose: Migrant Education

My third grade class at P.S 45 is an ICT class where half of the students are low-functioning and half of the students are general education. My classroom contains 29 children, 15 boys and 14 girls of mixed heritages. The majority of my students are Hispanic and African American; however, there are a few students who are Caucasian and Asian, too. The class consists of many students who have an impulsive tendency of constantly getting out of their seats. When this happens, it breaks the focus of other students and disrupts the lesson. Most students come ready to learn, but some of the students lack focus due to insufficient sleep and nutrition. Some students are more skilled than others; however, most of the class is struggling academically. My class requires special and differentiated instruction. Twelve students in this class

I would like to withdraw my student visa application. As I submitted my application via Immiaccount but by mistake I answered the question : Is this person included in this application? therefore, the child ALENAZI, DALA (09/10/2003,F) was not accompanying the family on this application.

With children and young people, you must be aware of their age. Children who are anxious or shy (for example, those who have just started school) will need extra reassurance and time. They will need to feel comfortable and valued in their new school. You can help them to achieve this by using words and instructions that they understand, and in some cases physical contact may be needed (for example, a hug). Young children should be given support in developing relationships and understanding feelings, not just their own but also those of their friends and class mates. It is important to

In “The Good Immigrant student “, Bich Minh Nguyen talks about how her life was a child and how her life was like living in a white neighborhood in Michigan. At first when they had recently move to Michigan her Latina stepmother had a strong belief on bilingual education so Bich and her sister were sent to a school that had a bilingual educational program because her step mother feared that they would forget how to speak Vietnamese. There for the girls attended that school but there problem was not that they didn’t understand English but it was that they had trouble understanding Vietnamese they decided to not attend their bilingual classes anymore and the stepmother realized that the girls weren’t interested in learnig both languages.

Immigrant and multilingual youth face many challenges while getting an education. There are programs, laws and curriculum created and put in place in order to help further them in their educational goals; but these end up causing more harm than good. This is referred to as subtractive schooling. In this paper we will briefly go over what subtractive schooling is, what causes this to occur and what could be done to fight this type of schooling.

People read the newspaper and articles when they see a topic that is related to their life and I think the immigrant’s families will also read the newspaper when they see a topic about immigration. For example, my family are immigrants too and we tend to read the article when the headline has something to do with immigrants which convinces me that the main audience of my article would be immigrants and their families. We tend to read articles and try to find out if we are getting the same right as others or not and many immigrant families will read my article and try to find whether they are getting equal opportunity or not. Immigrants are not getting same opportunity as others citizens and residents of United

Tabitha- I agree with everything you wrote. I am currently working at a daycare and normally I work with the toddlers or preschool age students, but I had to cover a break for someone working with grade school children. Within the 30 minutes I was there a child had gotten in trouble for hitting another child and the way he responded to his consequences/ acting towards the teachers simply trying to figure out what happened. He was just extremely angry and it made me wonder what was going in his life to cause all his anger.

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As someone who is planning on getting licensed to teach two different, yet often marginalized, groups in a school setting, it is very important to consider how to make a school welcoming to all of its students. There is a lot of information available on making a classroom inclusive for students with special needs, but this sort of information is harder to come by for immigrant students who speak a language other than English at home. For this paper, I am looking into the question of how can a school be fundamentally welcoming to students from an immigrant background. I will be doing this by analyzing the experiences of students at a school in Bayview, California, the topic of Made in America: Immigrant Students in our Public Schools, a famous book by Laurie Olsen (1997). Her purpose was to study, “Through their encounters[, …] an illuminated version of the American system of stratification and exclusion through language, cultural, and racial relations” (p. 36). However, by analyzing and describing the school, Olsen has made it possible to assess any number of concerns that immigrant and English Language Learners (ELLs) face. Using the legwork she has already done, I have identified three characteristics a welcoming school should strive towards in order to help immigrant students.

I feel that I've had an opportunity to be a student of life. I've been lucky enough to hear stories from my patients about their trials and triumphs, their setbacks and how they've overcome them, and how to have a remarkable outlook on life in the bleakest of moments. I’ve dealt with patients who have stabbed themselves in an attempt to commit suicide. I’ve been in scenarios where my squad had been hit by indirect enemy fire and I was the only medic to deal with the situation. I’ve responded intelligently in an ambulance to emergencies numerous times. These experiences have molded me into the man I am today. I’m empathetic and nonjudgmental. I challenge myself to look at the

Immigrant youth are a significant proportion of our national student population today. Many of us don’t realize how many immigrant children there really are. In her interview, “The Education of Immigrant Children”, posted by Harvard Graduate School of Education on December 11, 2014, Mary Tamer, a graduate student, speaks to Harvard Professor Natasha Warikoo in order to inquire into some of the issues immigrant children face in their lives. According to Tamer, by 2050 more than one-third of school children will be an immigrant, or the child of an immigrant (Tamer). One-third is a largely substantial number, and reflects this as a substantial issue. Though how much is our immigrant population growing? In March 2005, during the National Conference of State Legislators, Ann Morse brought forth a report that she had drafted to reflect on the details of immigration and to announce how programs were doing which had been created and funded to improve and support immigrant youth. Due to this report, there are “current high levels of immigration - over 1 million per year” (Morse). Again, as our immigrant population grows, it increasingly becomes apparent that we cannot ignore this issue. But this large amount begs the question, what about our teaching population? Well, according Professor Warikoo, “our teaching force is more than 80 percent white, while over half of children today are racial minorities” (Tamer). Most teachers today aren’t able to personally connect or relate with

An issue that has become very important to me is that of fair education, specifically, in regards to ELL programs (English language learners) . This issue is very important to me because I’ve seen the struggles that immigrant students/the children of immigrants face when it come to the education system. During my early school years, I grew up in a predominantly hispanic neighborhood in East Harlem, therefore the schools in the surrounding neighborhoods had many native Spanish speakers. I didn’t encounter any problems in school with language, since English was my first language, but many of my classmates has trouble. I would often see teachers get frustrated with students when they could not communicate effectively with them. Instead of

As a first generation Chicana scholar, I have to say that receiving my bachelors degree from UCSD, has been my most meaningful accomplishment within the past 4-5 years. First of all, growing up I never imagined that I would have the opportunity to attend a four year university. I was unaware that a young girl from East Los Angeles, could have been given the resources to pursue higher education. Nonetheless, in high school I found the unconditional support of friends, family, and mentors that I had been needing all along. I was able to achieve academic excellence and attend my dream school, UCSD. Once in college, I was challenged socially, psychologically and academically. It was the first time I was away from my family and community. I felt

Tutored kids in a low-income housing project in Boston while in school. She felt powerless in the program because many of the students had emotional and physical experiences when they were younger that made educating them very challenging.

In this paper, I want to focus on Immigrant Students in Secondary Schools. As a previous high school immigrant when I first arrived in United States, I have experience numerous difficulties in school that I would never forget. In addition, I believe immigrant students of secondary school can face major difficulties in learning English and succeeding in school. Since these students do not have a lot of time than elementary students to learn English, and they have to pass several test that require English skill such as the ACT and SAT. Above all, most secondary school texts and materials require a sufficient English reading ability to understand, which will even make learning experience becoming even tougher for high school immigrant.