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Case Study: Cultural Awareness
Read Chapter 2 of your text and the following case study:
You are a second grade teacher. You have a student named Jia who is from China and has lived in America for only six months. Today, you will be teaching a lesson on the life cycle of a butterfly, which includes the egg, caterpillar, chrysalis, and adult.
She is very bright and social, but is really struggling with English. You want to ensure that your lesson plan is both culturally and linguistically responsive, so you begin brainstorming by considering various teaching practices that could support Jia's culture and language.
Go to the section entitled "Culturally Responsive Teaching Practices" and "Linguistically Responsive Teaching Practices" and select two teaching practices that you would consider utilizing when developing your lesson plan on the life cycle of a butterfly.
Copy and paste the teaching strategies you selected within your response and then under each one, explain specifically how you will include the teaching practices within a lesson plan on the life cycle of a butterfly and how it would best support Jia.
Then reflect on this process by answering the following two questions:
Why do you think it is important for teachers to understand the cultural identities of their students? Provide evidence from the text to support your opinion.
Cushner (2007) has explored ways in which to broaden the cultural understanding of teachers.
He supports the idea of "lived intercultural experiences" (p. 9) and states that pre-service teachers would benefit from cross-cultural experiences which would better prepare them to work students that are different from themselves.
Describe an intercultural experience that you have been a part of and reflect on what you learned.
If you have not had an intercultural experience, describe what you could do to have such an experience. How will these experiences benefit you in the classroom to ensure both culturally and linguistically responsive practices?
Reference
Cushner, K., McClelland, A., & Safford, P. (2006). Human diversity in education: An integrative approach. New York, NY: McGraw Hill.