ECH125 T5CulturalInstructionalStrategies
ECH-125 Cultural and Instructional Strategies
Carmen Perdew
Maria
Seven-year-old Maria is an outgoing, happy second-grader with strong literacy skills; in fact, she is bilingual, Spanish/English. Her favorite part of school is reading and writing stories. She also enjoys math. She is very active and enjoys recess and creating dance steps in PE. She is sensitive and can get her feelings hurt easily.
Cultural (anti-bias) and Instructional Strategies:
<Cultural> Use the reading and writing love and have reading and writing assignments/activities in Spanish and English.
<Instructional> Introduce more complex reading levels, Work one on one with her to begin writing story summaries and identifying the main idea.
Results of Mentor Teacher Discussions: We discussed the importance or really horning in on student’s strengths to push her to ensure the student is learning something new.
Ashley
Six-year-old Ashley is the youngest of five children. She is very shy and clings to her older sister each day when she brings her into the first grade classroom. Ashley is curious; her favorite part of school is doing science experiments. She reads at a primer level, but enjoys having people read to her.
Cultural (anti-bias) and Instructional Strategies:
<Cultural> Introduce strategies for her to focus in on her curiosity and blossom through her love for science.
<Instructional> Turn focus to sight words at her level and start working on getting her into a Title Reading group so she can get the extra work in reading.
Results of Mentor Teacher Discussions: We talked about the importance of identify when a child needs extra work such and a title reading group and about how even though they are in a outside reading group they still need to be involved in the classroom readings as well.
Xavier
Xavier is a kindergartener who really enjoys sports, particularly baseball. He has low literacy skills. He is very social and enjoys interactions with other children during recess, class
Carmen Perdew
Maria
Seven-year-old Maria is an outgoing, happy second-grader with strong literacy skills; in fact, she is bilingual, Spanish/English. Her favorite part of school is reading and writing stories. She also enjoys math. She is very active and enjoys recess and creating dance steps in PE. She is sensitive and can get her feelings hurt easily.
Cultural (anti-bias) and Instructional Strategies:
<Cultural> Use the reading and writing love and have reading and writing assignments/activities in Spanish and English.
<Instructional> Introduce more complex reading levels, Work one on one with her to begin writing story summaries and identifying the main idea.
Results of Mentor Teacher Discussions: We discussed the importance or really horning in on student’s strengths to push her to ensure the student is learning something new.
Ashley
Six-year-old Ashley is the youngest of five children. She is very shy and clings to her older sister each day when she brings her into the first grade classroom. Ashley is curious; her favorite part of school is doing science experiments. She reads at a primer level, but enjoys having people read to her.
Cultural (anti-bias) and Instructional Strategies:
<Cultural> Introduce strategies for her to focus in on her curiosity and blossom through her love for science.
<Instructional> Turn focus to sight words at her level and start working on getting her into a Title Reading group so she can get the extra work in reading.
Results of Mentor Teacher Discussions: We talked about the importance of identify when a child needs extra work such and a title reading group and about how even though they are in a outside reading group they still need to be involved in the classroom readings as well.
Xavier
Xavier is a kindergartener who really enjoys sports, particularly baseball. He has low literacy skills. He is very social and enjoys interactions with other children during recess, class