Russia
The five ways in which I will prepare myself to be culturally responsive towards this family
1. To learn about their culture background so when the children comes into the room I can greet him or her in the appropriate way to feel comfortable.
2. I would learn about their holidays in place pictures and a calendar on the wall and do activity about the holidays so the students would be more comfortable in the room with different culture as well. There would also be books with Russia children in it and diversity books.
3. I would have information for the parents that would be in their language as well as in the English language about what would be going on in the classroom.
4. I would want the parents to give me information about their family culture and what it is important for their children to know and be carried out in the classroom.
5. I would want the family and children to feel comfortable by being in our state and classroom by asking the parents to attend the parents meeting and voicing their opinion on what he or she would want for their children while being in our state and school.
I hope that this preparations will help the families and myself to help get the right information that is needed for their children to feel comfortable by being in a different country and in the classroom with diversity children. This would help me to know how to communicate with the families and children without causing any confusing among ourselves when communicating.
I think we all have a good idea of what is needed for gaining new children, but a child coming from a foreign country is going to be very scary. I feel one of the most important things we can do is to learn some of their language because it will really help them feel comfortable.
ReplyDeletegreat ideas for making a foreigner feel m ore comfortable in the classroom, if the parents feel respected then they will feel comfortable sending their child to your classroom.
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