Educators must encourage parents of all cultures to become part of the school culture.
One way to do this is through activities. One activity a teacher can collaborate is “Family
Culture Night” The purpose of this activity is to recognize a culture by having a night celebrating
One groups culture. This celebration is used to publically recognize and celebrate a specific culture.(Sjar,2011) This celebration is targeted at the culture group, however, it is geared to the class as well. It allows the class to be familiar with the cultures of the group. In order for the night to be purposeful and fun all classes should have the same culture.
There is many things that go into facilitating such an event. One you must find a time that is suitable for many of the parents. This can be done through a survey. Ensuring that you are scheduling an event to accommodate as many people as possible will make parents feel appreciate and more people that make appearance to the event.(Syrja,2011,1801) This help solve the problem that most teachers are worried about: people not showing up.
Once the event has been schedule find any Ell parents who want to be involved in helping designing the celebration. When contacting them make sure you make a phone call and not just send a letter home with the children. By having you call the parent directly it is more personal. It may also be helpful if messages to the family are sent in their primary language. This makes the family feel comfortable and more appreciated for their culture. Calling helps make sure there will be help in planning the event.
The designing process is up to the teachers, parents, and students. However, all events
should have food, entertainment, and some kind of...
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...ish language. They are also targeted in not
only helping the students but the faculty and the parents as well. It is important to remember that
instructions and strategies mat be altered based on the child’s acquisitions levels and based on
the child’s affective filter. The higher the filter the harder a teacher must work on strategies and
the environment to make the child feel comfortable.
The biggest difference between the third activity and the first two is that it is more
targeted into getting ELLs to get to know the American Culture. The first two activities,
however, are more targeted toward helping ELLs to share their culture. .
Regardless of the strategies or activities a teacher chooses hopefully will end with the
ultimate goal., for children to be more cultural diverse and become one step closer from being no
longer a ELL student.
Effective partnerships between families and school emerge from a mutual trust, respect and understanding of each other’s values and goals. By maintaining such partnerships, we create a healthy environment for children to develop. All families have something unique to offer and educators need to recognize this and make the most of it by incorporating all families into the school community.
Cultural credits have both many pros and cons, but the negative side of them far outweigh the positives. Bad timing, the need for sacrifice, pulling of attendance from other events, and the small amount of respect for the events all are very large issues. Forcing students to go to something that they do not find interest in is not the way to “enrich learning beyond the classroom.”
In conclusion, this book gave me a whole new view on life and how we can interact better with different people. The book emphasized that culture is key to understanding people. Sometimes it is hard to connect with others because they are indicated as different but in due time we can adjust. Every culture has their own traditions when it comes to what they eat, what to wear, dating, various ceremonies, holidays and more. Reading this book helped me become more accepting of who I am and where I come from.
This is when we need to step up and help the parent and the child so they don’t fall through the cracks of the education system. We need to increase parent involvement in each child education. Increasing parent involvement, begins with education the parents. Parents don’t realize or know how to get involved with their child’s education. There are many ways families can be involved in the education process. The parent is the child’s most valuable teacher for their whole life. The most benefit this will bring to the families is confidence. Teachers need to help the parents know that they can assist in their child’s education and can help them at home. There are workshops and training to help families get involved. The key is to offer incentives to the training to help increase the parent’s attendance, Communication is the one key with the parents. In today’s socially they are many ways to stay in contact with parents because of technology by email, text, or social media. Invite parent to come to the classroom and volunteer and see firsthand what a day look like for their child in the classroom. Have different events that will increase parents interest and eventually great participation. Another idea could be to send home activities that encourages family involvement. This can be activity that have the parents engage with each other and can be short and dynamic. The
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...r child to these interventions and they could make sure to remind their children every day that they are important. Parents could also set up play dates or birthday parties that invite the whole class.
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