Week 3 assignment #3 Question #1

•         Question#1 How are high expectations especially critical for culturally and linguistically diverse learners?How can teachers learn about students' home cultures?

        I am a preservice teacher, I always remind myself every lesson or every moment I teach will have some meaning in someone's life and that encourages me to push the envelope when I study. To me, if we don't have high expectation on our culturally or linguistically diverse learners, the misunderstanding or ethnocentric attitude will blind our eyes to vision the fact that our next generation will make this nation more diverse when they age. And namely, when we don't hold high expectations, we partly overlook the strength we have had and walk away from the foundation of the establishment of this country. Educators or relevant policies maker would just make more excuses for our failure on the culturally or linguistically students. In their life, we give up them and somehow we give up our mission unknowingly. We need to recognize that students from the different background could suffer the different level of difficulties here in their life. A new immigrant child may need to cope with the school and the pressure from the family financial issue. They don't have enough resources for learning or even worse they don't know they should have. These solutions rely on teachers, administrators and district's caring and communication among students and their families. 

         Every teacher is a learner, that is what I believe because everyone is individual and we can't just copy past experience or concept to new students. I would like to take these kinds of students as a good chance for the rest of class to learn history, geography or culture. Besides home visiting, I will assign the class to publish a newspaper targeting on newcomers and their relevant information investigation. We can even cooperate the earlier comers to share their stories and teacher can learn the students' home culture just like other students through this medium and I believe the families can also feel respected and work with the teacher for their kids.The boundary settled between race, gender, language, or the ability eventually will become vaguer and vaguer if we put our effort and have our appropriate expectation. The expectation will be the fuel for the teacher to develop better- /multi- curriculum and gain the sense of accomplishment.