Culturally Responsive Classrooms:
The changes in culture require more from teachers. All children deserve equal access to literacy and to good literature. Living literature classrooms work to accommodate and enrich students with rich experiences with high quality books. I know that as a teacher we will have students with different cultures, from poverty culture, to military culture, to deep culture students and surface culture students.
As a young student I got to experience many different cultures from Mexican, Indian, American, African American and poverty cultures. I had friends of different races and cultures. I was amazed at so many of the things that they would do different from my own family. I enjoyed the diversity and learned alot from their culture.
When I am a teacher I will have fun learning about each students background and make it fun for the students to learn about eachothers backgrounds. If I have a student who feels like he/she does not fit in, then I will include the child in activities. Rather than have the students pick their groups I will assign them. I used to hate when the teacher would not let us pick our groups but that is how I made many friends.
Some websites you can go to, to find multicultural authors are: www.frankrogers.home.mindspring.com/mulit.html and www.multiculturalchildrenslit.com. A couple of authors I would like to read books from are: Joseph Bruchae and Pat Mora. I like the way Joseph Bruchae says that literature is one of the best ways to understand yourself and the world around you. And Pat Mora is a well known childrens author.
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I agree with you in that you would assign children to a group instead of having them choose. This will help them with their social and emotional development. I have seen even in adults once we choose a certain group to work with, sometimes you just don't want to try any other group. Change...some children will adapt better than others. And thanks for the link on multicultural authors.
ReplyDeleteI love the connection you made between your own childhood and what you learned from chapter 2 regarding a culturally responsive classroom. I think that you learned a great deal from this chapter. As for your author study, good job on finding some neat websites however, next time try to feature some books as well as the authors. Pictures would be great for your blog.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you about culture. I too had friends of different cultures and enjoyed seeing the different traditions and or customs their families celebrated. This is a good lesson for children to learn that even though we come from differen cultures we are all human. We should not judge a person because they are different than we are. Good Blogging.
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