Week 3 assignment #3 Question #2

• Question#2 How can teachers use their understanding of students' home cultures to teach in culturally responsive ways?

         Let me share my boy's stories and it can exactly explain the importance of this theory. In Taiwan, we have a break combined lunch time and napping at 12-13:30, we follow this routine throughout preschool to college. When we moved to this nation, his teacher often assumed he's a lazy boy due to my son often yawned during that period of time. The teacher never really understood the cultural background and labeled him as a reluctant learner. The ESL teacher helped us a lot then and later on the school district decided to retrieve all ESL students back to the main campus for saving some transportation fee of ESL teachers. Since then, my boy started to have smile. After I realized what he suffered from the previous school I started to have strong motive to help other diverse students. So in this case, if I were the teacher, I would have communicated with parents first to understand the reason behind the phenomena and adjust my schedule or teaching style during that time, I would like to have more physical movement in class instead of only sitting there. Even just do close-reading, I will design some session for engaging students to discuss, circulate in classroom writing some ideas. Now, my son is getting better and better, most of the time he is even the high honor student, and in my heart, I always acknowledged the ESL teacher, thank her patience and her understanding.