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THIS IS AN EXAMPLE ONLY!! USE THIS AS A GUIDE TO DO THE ASSIGNMENT. MAKE SURE TO ADD RESOURCES AND REFERANCES.
Teacher Answer: I’ll note television shows and internet sites that provide bilingual help and correct verbal pronunciation assistance. The lending book closet is there so you can have books to read at home. I provide bilingual labels within the classroom
Resource: Dual Language Learners - http://www.naeyc.org/tyc/links/duallanguagelearners (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
2. Parent Question: What are my child’s habits during classroom activities?
Teacher Answer: I’ll let them know I altered some of my teaching techniques so everyone is mixed up in the classroom activities. “I’ll inform them change will help convince them to contribute. The child will be physically assisted by doing the various changes like having illustrations, examples, modified schedule of reinforcement, and verbal prompting.” (Curenton, & Iruka, 2013 pg. 3.5).
Resource: Encouraging Your Child’s Class Participation -
3. Parent Question: Are there and disciplinary problems the classroom?
Teacher Answer: I detail all actions, good and bad that happen in my classroom with. I track your child behavior throughout the day with cameras and evaluation notes. There are periodical assessments to evaluate your child’s development. “Assessments can be used to program monitoring, to track a child’s developmental progress, and for professional evaluations” (IDEA, PL 105-17). For evaluations and test the material has to be selected and given so that it does not discriminate in the terms of race and culture (Curenton, & Iruka, 2013).
Resource: Classroom Assessment – http://fcit.usf.edu/assessment/selected/responsec.html (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
4.Parent Question: Is there anything I should be doing At home?
Teacher Answer: Ensure yourself along with others around them speak in English when socializing but speak in Spanish when at home. I’ll allow you to take home DLL books to read at home with your child (Curenton & Iruka, 2013). I’ll incorporate the entire class in learning a few Spanish words to help in the process.
Resource: Try these tips to support dual language learners at 5 key points of the day -
5. Parent Question: How are cultural differences implemented in the classroom?
Teacher Answer: It’s imperative that children are taught to love themselves, their culture. Children should embrace there uniqueness. Curenton & Iruka says that by teaching cultural knowledge, experiences a diverse learning/ communication styles of culturally and linguistically diverse students incorporate children’s home language into the classroom in a systematic and intentional way to help build children’s abilities to maintain their home language as well as build their English skills (Curenton, & Iruka, 2013).
Resource: Culture in the Classroom - http://www.tolerance.org/culture-classroom (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
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