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For Discussion Board: Strategies for cultural responsivess in teaching and Learning
Lyfen Clarke
SundayJul 10 at 12:34am
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Cultural responsiveness is very important in the early childhood education field. In cultural responsiveness, the teachers are empathic and caring, they reflect their beliefs about people from other cultures, they are reflective of their own culture, and they have knowledge about other cultures. Therefore, it is important for teachers to plan curriculum that includes the dimensions of cultural responsiveness to support cultural differences and family experiences in children’s learning environment; curriculum planning of cultural responsiveness supports all children’s developmental domains. There are 5 dimensions of curriculum planning that the teacher seems to have used to support teaching that is responsive to cultural differences and family experiences and they are Relationships, language, goals, method, and persons.
Relationship in the classroom setting is important because that is how children learn through their sense of exploring and connecting with others in their learning environment. It is important for teachers to build relationships with the children and the families that they come to serve. Building a relationship is learning about the family’s background to understand the children in their classroom of different cultural practices. Relationships help build a circle of trust between family, children, and teachers. A language is a form of communication for all children, families, and teachers to get messages across to learn and understand each other. Teachers can model and support language through literacy and printing. Teachers welcome all languages and support them by modeling different languages of greeting in children’s cultures’ use of words. Goals are objective learning. Teachers can think of goals and values that reflect children’s culture. Methods are the teacher’s style of teaching that she integrates with children’s culture. Teachers identify ways that are different in school settings from home culture. Teachers use her method at school to fit with children’s home cultures. Persons are reflective of teachers’ own personal cultures by using respectful language to support children’s understanding of their culture. Persons are roles that Teachers use by thinking of their own culture and reflecting on their cultures to fit in the program to support children in their learning environment.
As a teacher, I would use relationship and language dimensions in my classroom because building relationships with children and families help provide a positive learning environment. Relationships facilitate learning between families, children, and teachers through trust and care. Language is the key for all learning. I believe teachers should foster language through literacy because mastering language will help navigate other areas of learning. The other three are important too because they are connected with relationship and language. From a personal experience of working with children, when I establish positive relationship with students and support of language usages, children are more respective, cooperate, and motivated to listen and learn. The classroom managements are also smoother during transitioning activities.
Michaela Martin
YesterdayJul 11 at 12:24pm
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1. Write 5 dimensions of curriculum planning that the teacher seems to have used to support teaching that is responsive to cultural differences and family experiences.
1. Relationships Initiate and build open, socially meaningful connections and emotionally
close relationships with the families of the children served.
2. Content Take time to become familiar with the values and beliefs of the cultural
groups in the program.
3. Persons Think deeply and often about the role of culture in personal relationships
with a particular child or group of children.
4. Language Use culturally respectful language and alternative modes of communication to promote understanding.
5. Metaphors Incorporate culturally meaningful symbols, sayings, and images of
persons into the program; bring in family pictures, posters, and ways
in which families communicate in everything that is done and in the
environment created.
2. As a teacher, what dimensions would you use in your classroom and why.
1. As a teacher, I would use the dimension of relationships in my classroom because I believe that there is great value in having that connection with the child as well as their family. Trust must be established and reciprocated between both the family and I in order for us all to work in the best interest of the child. The only challenge for me would be to set professional boundaries with the family that does not impose nor violate the trust that has been built within our relationship.
2. As a teacher, I would use the dimension of content in my classroom because just noticing patterns of a same or similar culture can be overgeneralized and/or misinterpreted in the explanation of certain practices or behaviors within the culture. Therefore, it would be more effective to gain the proper content through conducting observations, creating discussions, and asking questions in order to obtain insight into the expectations and realities of the families that will ultimately inform me on how to better navigate my teaching curriculum for my diverse classroom of children.
3. As a teacher, I would use the dimension of persons in my classroom because this particular dimension of curriculum planning focuses on promoting self-examination as an educator and person. Upon reflection of my inner person, I can analyze, acknowledge, learn, and incorporate appropriate practices of teaching and connection with my students and their families without discrimination or bias’.
4. As a teacher, I would use the dimension of language in my classroom because it can be utilized to either be effective or detrimental depending on its understanding and use by the teacher among a diversified group of children. Awareness in this area is especially needed when working with young children such as infants and toddlers who may or may not yet be able to communicate through verbalization of words. Their specific language could be the use of verbal and nonverbal cues; therefore, it is important for me as a teacher to adapt and respond appropriately to their form of conversational skills.
5. As a teacher, I would use the dimension of metaphors in my classroom because it is important for the children to see visual representations of themselves and other cultures, whether currently present or not present, displayed in their environments outside of the home. This act of displaying culturally diverse symbols, pictures, images, sayings, and etc. will give the children a sense of familiarity with their individual homes and encourage them to embrace many others. It demonstrates a picture of the unification that will be taught to them through the dimensions of curriculum that is responsive to cultural differences and family experiences.
For Discussion Board # 4 Mendez Vs the Westminster
Michaela Martin
SundayJul 10 at 10:31am
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1. What was the Mendez VS the Westminster?
The Mendez VS Westminster was a case presented and held in court regarding the issue of segregation. The children within the Mendez family, among other Mexican children, were being denied access to attend a school known as The White School, but instead were redirected to a school named The Mexican School. They were told that they still were being treated equal although they had to be segregated.
2. Where did this happen and what year was this?
This court hearing happened in the Federal District Court of Los Angeles brought about from different school districts beginning with Orange County, the year of 1945.
3. What is the connection between Mendez Vs Westminster and the Brown vs the Board of education supreme court case?
According to eyewitnesses, Mendez VS Westminster and Brown VS the Board of Education are connected through the cultural diversity of people who were all fighting for change regarding immoral segregation. The Mendez VS Westminster case was used as a model for the Brown VS the Board of Education case by Thurgood Marshall and Robert Carter later on. These two men used the example and/or case ruling of Mendez VS Westminster that positively changed rights for Mexican American children to implement that same type of change in a different cultural community.
4. Were separate schools equal? What did the Mexican schools teach and what did the white schools teach? Why and why not.
Separate schools were not equal because not only were they treated differently; however, they were also taught differently as well. When the children who attended the Mexican school were given books, they would be given hand-me downs and torn up textbook material. The Mexican schools were mainly taught home economic activities such as cleaning, sewing, quilting, and etc. Whereas the White school’s children were taught academics with textbooks of good and acceptable quality.
5. What were Japanese internment camps?
Japanese internment camps were camps that were set up in America for Japanese immigrants to reside in, due to an order implemented by President Franklin Roosevelt, after the attack on Pearl Harbor, because the society’s fear of a homeland attack.
6. Raising a child with a disability is a family strain, do all children have the same access to education including children with disabilities today?
In today’s society, all children including those with disabilities do have the same access to education for the most part. There are now new programs and equipment provided to assist children with any disability that they may have. There are ramps and markers implemented to assist children with physical disabilities to be able to attend school physically without barriers. There are certain programs and policies that have been implemented as a way of assisting children with learning disabilities such as given more time on test taking, tutoring, and a smaller classroom setting. However, the separation of classrooms of children with learning disabilities is still a debatable topic regarding appropriateness because although the intent is to give the children more individual attention and help, it could be seen as a form of segregation from children without a prevalent learning disability.
7. As a teacher, what can you learn from this? How does something like this affect children?
As a teacher, I can learn from this how to educate children on the basis of what the true meaning of being equal is. I can also illustrate to them the need for and importance of even just one person deciding to stand up for change for equality rather than for selfish purposes. Something like this can affect children’s mental health and psychological progression towards their adulthood. For example, the notion that was mentioned in court regarding the inferiority that began to enter the minds of the Mexican children and the superiority that was exercised by the white children all due to the exposure of their environments. They will develop these thoughts and rationalize their discriminatory behavior by these misconceptions of that which occurred during their childhood then practiced in their adulthood. These thoughts, feelings, and actions can be detrimental to our generation of children who will grow to be adults because if not taught and shown correctly regarding these racial issues they can possibly overturn a lot of change that has already been processed.

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