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Establish a Culturally Responsive Community for English Language Learners

Establish a Culturally Responsive Community for English Language Learners. Presented By: Celina Acham Jossie Montolio. YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57KW6RO8Rcs&feature=youtube_gdata_player.

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Establish a Culturally Responsive Community for English Language Learners

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  1. Establish a Culturally Responsive Community for English Language Learners Presented By: Celina Acham Jossie Montolio

  2. YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57KW6RO8Rcs&feature=youtube_gdata_player

  3. A system of shared ideas and meaning, explicit and implicit, which a people use to interpret the world and which serve to pattern their behavior (Hassall, 1995). • Culture is made up of values, laws, rules, social categories, tacit models, assumptions and fundamentals (Ebrey, 1981). What is Culture? (Hassall, 1995)

  4. Bias • Exploring Bias • Address Bias Text: Racial Gaps in Student Achievement Could Be a Cultural Bias, School Leaders Say (Navas, 2009)

  5. Culture of Access • Culture of Exclusion Text: Very Few Blacks, Hispanics Admitted To Top Public Schools (Mallory, 2011)

  6. Due to the NCLBA, all students are provided an education regardless of backgrounds. • “Immigrant students have fueled the public school system since the baby boom”. • Immigrant students are often segregated within the schools. • Friction amongst cultures occurs. • Immigration Laws effect students learning. Where Education and Assimilation Collide (Thompson, 2009)

  7. It is important to assimilate both immigrant children and native children. • Two-way immersion programs are a necessity in order to integrate all children. • In order to bridge the gap, teachers and other stakeholders need to really understand the “melting pot” concept. Assimilation

  8. YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BT0kzF4A-WQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player

  9. Most top American Public Schools are heterogeneous. • Top ranking schools have high minority percentage. • Students perform better in a heterogeneous environment • Research conducted based by region and ethnic backgrounds of students. Schools Populated with Minorties Are Among Nation’s Best High Schools (Burnsed, 2010)

  10. “Race is a pigment of our imagination” • Racial categories serve to distinguish “us from them”. • The terms Latino’s and Hispanics is only a US context. • Hispanic and Latino groups are made up of new comers and old timers. • Racial identification is dependent on what regions they are concentrated. Pigments of Our Imagination: The Racialization of the Hispanic-Latino Category (Rumbaut, 2011)

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