My Field Experience
C.1. The student diversity I have observed during my field experience has been students from different socioeconomic backgrounds. I have seen students that are from a low socioeconomic status that get bags of food from the school to bring home for the weekend and students who are in a higher socioeconomic status.
C.2. All students in my field experience, regardless of socioeconomic status, are eager to learn and want to be at the afterschool program.
C.3. I have noted that students from a lower socioeconomic background are dressed a little differently than their peers. Some of these students do not wear name brand clothing and one student complained that her feet hurt, possibly because her shoes were too small.
C.4. The diversity that I have …show more content…
In Western culture, we are taught that we must make eye contact with others to show respect. This can present a challenge because if I teach my students that they must make eye contact to teach them respect, the Native American students in my classroom may feel that they are in a cultural mismatch, when a cultural group has radically different norms and values than those in another place (school). This would be a difficult challenge because I want to teach my students respect, however, I must consider the Native American culture. To deal with this, I can educate myself on respect practices in other cultures and allow my students who come from different cultures to show respect in different ways. Another challenge might come with the student’s question answering time. In American culture, we move very fast and since there is so much curriculum to cover, we do not have time to have a long wait time, the amount of silence that elapse after a teacher asks a question. In the Native American culture, having a longer wait time is another sign of respect because it shows that the student has thought about the question. This could present a challenge to my classroom because the longer wait time could show that the student does not understand the question or is not paying attention. To deal with this challenge, I can allow my students as longer wait time after a question to let them know that I respect their culture, and that they can show respect with their
C.2. All students in my field experience, regardless of socioeconomic status, are eager to learn and want to be at the afterschool program.
C.3. I have noted that students from a lower socioeconomic background are dressed a little differently than their peers. Some of these students do not wear name brand clothing and one student complained that her feet hurt, possibly because her shoes were too small.
C.4. The diversity that I have …show more content…
In Western culture, we are taught that we must make eye contact with others to show respect. This can present a challenge because if I teach my students that they must make eye contact to teach them respect, the Native American students in my classroom may feel that they are in a cultural mismatch, when a cultural group has radically different norms and values than those in another place (school). This would be a difficult challenge because I want to teach my students respect, however, I must consider the Native American culture. To deal with this, I can educate myself on respect practices in other cultures and allow my students who come from different cultures to show respect in different ways. Another challenge might come with the student’s question answering time. In American culture, we move very fast and since there is so much curriculum to cover, we do not have time to have a long wait time, the amount of silence that elapse after a teacher asks a question. In the Native American culture, having a longer wait time is another sign of respect because it shows that the student has thought about the question. This could present a challenge to my classroom because the longer wait time could show that the student does not understand the question or is not paying attention. To deal with this challenge, I can allow my students as longer wait time after a question to let them know that I respect their culture, and that they can show respect with their