Prompt 5

There are a lot of challenges that a teacher could confronted, it all depends on the culture of each of the students. The reason why I said that is because if I as a teacher have a Hispanic student, his/her culture is totally different than a White student and I don’t mean it in a bad way. I think that Hispanic parents are more restrictive when it comes to their children, for example in my culture which is Hispanic, parents usually hit their kids if they don’t behave and here, in America, that is consider domestic violence, but even here some parents don’t lose their culture and keep doing that and when their children are misbehaving in school they tell the teacher (if the teacher is Hispanic) to hit the kid so he/she can listen and behave. Children would never listen if you treat them bad and parents don’t understand that. The more they hit the kid, the more rebellious the kid becomes. The reason why I’m talking about this is because I passed through a situation like this, where one of my students’ parent told me that if her child don’t listen to me, I have the permission to hit him. I’m sure that teachers pass through many others challenges with their students.

Prompt 3

An excellent way to find out more about sociocultural differences is by being creative; doing games and activities that involves sociocultural, linguistic and ethnic characteristics with students. Doing that the teacher would be able to learn more about each student and from there will be better to accommodate them, not affecting learning.  Teachers should know as much as they can about their students in order to interact and have a variety of techniques of teaching for students to learn.  One activity that I really like was the one that we did in class, by taking steps back and forward, by this activity I realized a lot of things that I wouldn’t ever imagine about my classmates. I feel comfortable because I wasn’t the only one who had the same situation. I tried this activity with my high school students and they had a lot in common. With that activity I understood a lot of things from my students, such as; why do they act the way they do, and why their personality is like that. Etc.