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Assignment:
Identify a local immigrant community in Illinois. Choose a culture or community relevant to your current school/classroom needs, future teaching plans, or interests. You CANNOT be a member of the culture/community you visit. Research the community before you visit. Read a bit online about the culture, the community, the neighborhood, etc. Identify a school that serves the community and find its most recent school report card. Identify specific resources (including names and addresses) that you want to visit before going, including schools, religious institutions, libraries, bookstores, etc., before you go. Find some music and media from the culture online and listen to it. Visit the community, including seeing cultural institutions, observing and meeting residents, seeing shops and businesses, finding local schools, and sampling food. You can also experience music or performing arts and/or view a TV program or movie. Write a report summarizing and analyzing your experience and observations. Choose a local immigrant community.
1. Do research to plan your visit. Check online for information about the community. Find out background and figure out places to visit. Find a map and directions.
2. Visit the community for about half to three-quarters of a day. Walk around, visit shops and businesses, go to cultural institutions, and sample food.
3. Summarize and analyze the data in a written report. Summarize your preliminary research. Describe the visit. Where did you go? What did you see? What happened? Did anything unusual happen? What did you learn about the community's culture, values, and beliefs from the visit? What does the culture value? How do you know? How does the culture facilitate education? Are there any aspects of the culture (or its relationship with US culture) that might challenge students' learning or affect their involvement in the American educational system? How will you use the information learned to support culturally diverse education of your students? Support your ideas with quotations or references to required course books and readings: ethnographic Eyes A Teacher's Guide to Classroom Observationby Carolyn Frank and thnographic Eyes A Teacher's Guide to Classroom Observationby Carolyn Frank.