Welcoming Families From Around
the World
The family’s country of origin, I decided to choose
is Puerto Rico. The five ways in which I
will prepare myself to be culturally responsive towards this family is first I
would commit myself to getting to know the student and as well as his family
both academically, socially and emotionally.
I would learn about the family’s culture and interest and ask questions
and talk with the parents. I would also
make home visits and create opportunities for the students to share and
celebrate their family traditions and cultures; create a classroom learning
community by encouraging the students to care for one another and be
responsible for each other inside and outside the classroom; design lessons
plans with the students in mind; and last but not least understand my own
cultural identity by examining my own cultural behavior patterns, especially
when it comes to classroom management and discipline. And most importantly be myself with my
students by being honest, caring and human.
It’s important that families remain connected, teach their children family values, morals and the importance of praying together as a family especially in this society that tends to make the youth forgetting who they are and where they are from. It’s a great thing you are teaching your children. Thanks for sharing.
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