The culturally competent teacher should be able to account for, demonstrate awareness of, and respond to sociocultural distinctiveness of her or his students, families, and communities when planning for and delivering instruction...
After Info works for information about the school I am working with, I found that parents are happy with the school when it comes to communication and staying up to date with how their child is doing in school. Teachers, also report having positive experiences with the parents of their students as well as the community in general. Considering that the classroom in which I tutor is diverse, there must be ways that the teacher attempts to effectively communicate and address both students and parents from different cultures.
As mentioned previously, there are a variety of different ethnicity's represented in the classroom where I tutor. Among the three children I personally work with, there are also differences and similarities in culture and background. Considering that the children are still young and have much to learn, they show signs of needing help with grammar and pronunciation. They seem to be comfortable, however with the their teachers and peers. All children are encouraged to answer questions or tell a story to relate to the lesson being given in order to find connections and better understand students individually. It is also easy to tell which children are friends or small problems that arise between those that sit next to one another or at closer to the teacher. For example, there is one child who has his desk seated right next to the teacher's and needs constant reminding to pay attention, sit up straight and be quiet. The student teacher frequently goes to stand next to the boy and asks him questions while a lesson is being taught of which she is not a part. By doing this, she incorporates his opinions and attention into the lesson and class as a whole.
I must make a point to note that as I have mentioned this classroom appears diverse and comfortable. The teacher has a good hold on what the students need as a whole and individually. The issues brought up by a theorist such as Kozol may indeed be present in the school or community, but not in this particular classroom. Also, I cannot personally say that Johnson is wrong or right when dealing with the classroom. This is because though the children are not segregated, and no one sees how white children are viewed as superior, it is possible that wrongs do happen. In the time to which I have begun tutoring, I have not seen one instance in which a white child has a better chance or advantage with the teacher or another classmate. Maybe secret prejudices are in the minds of the adults or children present, there is no way to know. Based off of what I see, some kids appear to need more help with certain subjects or disciplines but the color of their skin or home that they come from is not an issue. Everyone is expected to be there to want to learn and the teacher there to teach fairly. Considering the amount of work that goes into preparing for her class and staying on schedule with mandatory lessons the teacher probably does not have much time to think of these issues as our class does, and I have not seen any reason to think otherwise.
These children are offering our society hope for the future. They are too small to understand the problems and setbacks they will face for a variety of reasons in the future. They do, however, believe that they can achieve anything and they deserve this dream to be repeated by teachers and parents over and over. When a child knows they have support from an authority figure they will work harder and accomplish more. It is important for the school to work with the parents and community to enrich the children with opportunities that show them the good in this world and help them understand what they want to do or be in life. To these adorable little ones, seeing a friendly face come to tutor them weekly is something they look forward to and feel special about. I am happy to be able to offer this to the teacher, class, and especially the children I work with individually. I will be there for them to remind them every week that they are doing a good job and I am so very proud of all the hard work and fun they show me.
After Info works for information about the school I am working with, I found that parents are happy with the school when it comes to communication and staying up to date with how their child is doing in school. Teachers, also report having positive experiences with the parents of their students as well as the community in general. Considering that the classroom in which I tutor is diverse, there must be ways that the teacher attempts to effectively communicate and address both students and parents from different cultures.
As mentioned previously, there are a variety of different ethnicity's represented in the classroom where I tutor. Among the three children I personally work with, there are also differences and similarities in culture and background. Considering that the children are still young and have much to learn, they show signs of needing help with grammar and pronunciation. They seem to be comfortable, however with the their teachers and peers. All children are encouraged to answer questions or tell a story to relate to the lesson being given in order to find connections and better understand students individually. It is also easy to tell which children are friends or small problems that arise between those that sit next to one another or at closer to the teacher. For example, there is one child who has his desk seated right next to the teacher's and needs constant reminding to pay attention, sit up straight and be quiet. The student teacher frequently goes to stand next to the boy and asks him questions while a lesson is being taught of which she is not a part. By doing this, she incorporates his opinions and attention into the lesson and class as a whole.
I must make a point to note that as I have mentioned this classroom appears diverse and comfortable. The teacher has a good hold on what the students need as a whole and individually. The issues brought up by a theorist such as Kozol may indeed be present in the school or community, but not in this particular classroom. Also, I cannot personally say that Johnson is wrong or right when dealing with the classroom. This is because though the children are not segregated, and no one sees how white children are viewed as superior, it is possible that wrongs do happen. In the time to which I have begun tutoring, I have not seen one instance in which a white child has a better chance or advantage with the teacher or another classmate. Maybe secret prejudices are in the minds of the adults or children present, there is no way to know. Based off of what I see, some kids appear to need more help with certain subjects or disciplines but the color of their skin or home that they come from is not an issue. Everyone is expected to be there to want to learn and the teacher there to teach fairly. Considering the amount of work that goes into preparing for her class and staying on schedule with mandatory lessons the teacher probably does not have much time to think of these issues as our class does, and I have not seen any reason to think otherwise.
These children are offering our society hope for the future. They are too small to understand the problems and setbacks they will face for a variety of reasons in the future. They do, however, believe that they can achieve anything and they deserve this dream to be repeated by teachers and parents over and over. When a child knows they have support from an authority figure they will work harder and accomplish more. It is important for the school to work with the parents and community to enrich the children with opportunities that show them the good in this world and help them understand what they want to do or be in life. To these adorable little ones, seeing a friendly face come to tutor them weekly is something they look forward to and feel special about. I am happy to be able to offer this to the teacher, class, and especially the children I work with individually. I will be there for them to remind them every week that they are doing a good job and I am so very proud of all the hard work and fun they show me.
posted by Brianna at
5:31 PM
1 Comments:
Brianna,
What I strongly agree with you on in this post is that the students all get along very well, no matter what ethnicity or color they are. It may be because they are too young to realize any differences, but I do not think that this is the case. Just as you said, it makes me happy to see this. Racism and cultural deviation are so prominent in our society and it gives me hope, also that changes are going to be made in our future generations. No matter what we do hatred and racism is never going to disappear, but the less of it that is present, is only a good thing. Students form a lot of their opinions in school, which is one aspect that is great for having such a diverse classroom!
My classroom is not segregated either, it may be the most diverse place I have ever been actually. There are children from so many different backgrounds and the classroom is like a big melting pot. The thing I like about this is that students can experience other cultures and see what life is like for them. Every child brings something different to the table, which allows a great deal of personal growth for each individual student!
-MJ
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