...ELL Families and School English Language learner (ELL) students are the fastest growing student population in the USA today. There are the challenges of creating programs that can accommodate all students, including the ELL students, and the political issues, cultural practices, language barriers, school policies and is literacy practices and achievements, its socio-cultural influences, bilingualism and home language use with the parental and community resources for English acquisition and the ways and means that both the school and home can help the ELL students to achieve their goals. The socio-cultural influences on English Language learners affect how they interact with other students. They are expected to behave at school in the way that the dominant culture expects them to behave, but at home their family traditions and attitudes to education are different. They endeavor to cope with the changes of a new country, a new language, a new home and a new school. Many English language learners are bilingual. They speak Spanish at home as they acquire English at school. It is very effective when their parents speak, read and write with them in the native language. Home language use has a great influence on students both at home and school, as the student has to learn to adjust at school in the state’s language, which is different from their native tongue. That same student has to continue speaking his or her native language at home. Those students who practice...
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...Cultural Diversity in School Lekesha Fraley ELL 240 Linguistically & Culturally Diverse Learners Instructor: Ashley Simpson May 15, 2014 Connecting with families of ELLs is every bit as important as connecting with the learners themselves in the classroom (Syrja, 2011 ).Working with families is an important first step in helping children accept, understand, and value their culture in school. By creating culturally aware school-family partnerships, school systems can reduce cultural discontinuities, create diverse learning opportunities, improve ethnic and racial perceptions and attitudes, and foster interethnic friendships. Parents are a child's first teacher, and play a vital role throughout their child's formal education. Healthy relationships between home and school contribute to student achievement. Regardless of socioeconomic level, ethnic/racial background, or parents' education level, students do better academically when their families are involved in learning process (Antunez, 2000). Family and parent involvement can take many forms, from volunteering in the classroom, to setting high expectations for learning and creating a supportive learning environment at home; the more ways schools and family’s partner to support student learning, the more family involvement takes place. Family involvement is linked to higher student achievement, better attitudes toward learning, lower dropout rates, and increased community support for education--regardless of...
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...Introduction: I interviewed a 28 year old lady from Bosnia named Suada. Suada moved to the U.S. when she was 12 years old on August 15, 2000 with her mom, dad, and two sisters. Swada and her family decide to move away from Bosnia because they were trying to flee from the civil war that was going on in their country. The civil war in Bosnia began in 1992, when Yugoslav republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina declared its independence from Yugoslavia. Swada and her family lived through the war and then fled to Holland, Netherlands in 1998, where they lived for 2 ½ years. After 2 ½ years the Netherlands government told them that they could no longer stay there because the war was over. The Netherlands government told them that they could either go back to Bosnia or they could help them move to another country....
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...Cultural Diversity Activities Amanda Brogdon ELL240: Linguistically & Culturally Diverse Learners Instructor Jerrica Mesquita July 30, 2014 Cultural Diversity Activities “Connecting with families of ELLs is every bit as important as connecting with the learners themselves in the classroom” (Syrja, R. pg. 81. 2011). Learning about cultural diversity is an excellent way to get families involved. Cultural diversity is something that our children begin to understand at an early age. It is up to those who educate our children to help get parents as well as students involved in educating our children about the different cultures in our society as it is important in the success of their development. Some activities that could involve both students and their parents in cultural diversity education could include culinary diversity, arts and crafts, and culturally diverse textiles. Description of Target Group: “Building positive identities and a respect for differences means weaving diversity into the fabric of children's everyday lives. Working with families is an important first step in helping children accept, understand, and value their rich and varied world” (Gonzalez-Mena, J. & Pulido-Tobiassen, D. 2014). The target group for these activities is children in Kindergarten through second grade who are of American and Hispanic descent. They have been developed for students and their parents to do together and all three of them honor and respect cultural diversity...
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...Examples of Contribution to the Education of ELs: In her role as Community Assistant for Migrant Head Start (MHS) in Thermal, Ms. Christina works tirelessly to meet all the needs of the children as well as their families. Her formal duties encompass serving as a liaison between parents and community resources so that migrant children ages birth – five years learn, succeed, and thrive, but it is her extraordinary service that sets her apart. Families served through Migrant Head Start are among the neediest in the state. Families are low-income, hardworking and extremely mobile, especially through specific harvest cycles. All children served are Latino with Spanish identified as the primary language. Like the families, Christina’s family...
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...Ali, M., Ford, D., Georgis, R., & Gokiert, R. (2014). Creating inclusive parent engagement practices. Multicultural Education, 23-27. The purpose of the reference, Creating Inclusive Parent Engagement Practices is to inform its readers about a qualitative study done to better understand how to create a comfortable environment for refugee parents; to help them feel at ease participating in school related events and in their child’s education. The school hosting the study implemented a three year Transition Support Program for refugee families. The program provided both parents and their children with transition support. The three types of support were ELL support, after school programs for the children, and classes for parents. The study found...
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...Instructions and Rubric for Elementary School Individual Counseling Case Conceptualization and Treatment Plan Individual counseling is a responsive service that involves one-to-one counseling with a student. Please use the case noted below to conceptualize the case and answer the questions on the rubric. Please use the rubric as your template for the assignment. That is, save a copy of the rubric as “Elementary School Treatment Plan”. Then, simply type your responses within the rubric template row and under each bulleted item. References will be included at the end of the document on a separate page in APA style. There is no required page length; just be sure to cover the rubric components completely and succinctly. The only information under each heading is the responses and required information as outlined in the rubric. Just answer the questions/address what the item indicates. The instructor will follow this rubric for grading. Please submit the assignment by the deadline noted on the Course Schedule. CASE: Geoffrey, a 10-year-old male student, expressed to you, his elementary school counselor, that he is angry because of his parents’ recent divorce. Geoffrey came to you nearly in tears with disheveled hair and wearing dirty clothes. During the session, Geoffrey sat slumped over with his hands clinched and began to cry, saying that his mother must now work so he never sees her, and his dad doesn’t care enough to even visit on the days he has visitation. He expresses...
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...Family Systems Amanda Blackmon Texas A&M University- Corpus Christi Family Systems During the second session, the client explains, based off her homework, the boundaries she has place between her Mother and the outcomes of each. She states she is wanting to live her life as an adult and her Mother projects feelings of anger, frustration, and guilt due to the fact she wants to be part of her daughter’s life in a way that is child- like to the client. In the session, the client analyzed her feelings when her Mother behaves in such a way and set goals to place boundaries and to be consistent with the boundaries, as well as being a positive influence for her Mother by sending her acclimations of positive encouragement. The client is processing through the feeling she has at times when her Mother’s behavior is in such a way, and feeling she is obligated to take care of her mother because she has “burned bridges” with other family members. She faces guilt in the situation and it continues to be a vicious cycle with each episode of behavior the mother portrays. Case Conceptualization Statement of Presenting Issue Client states working on the way she reacts to certain people in her life. She has a low tolerance level for her Mother and her behaviors toward the client as a Mother herself and wanting to live her own life. The client states her Mother is the one person she has not put the past to rest and the vicious cycle continues with each episode with her Mother...
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...her early 20s, he arranged a marriage to an eligible local bachelor. In response, she ran away from home and joined a Roman Catholic convent. “He wanted me to know only one man,” she says. “I wanted to know many people.” Her father didn’t speak to her for eight years. Outgoing and cheerful, Orejola often invokes a prayer – her favorite – to Jesus’s grandmother, subsequently sainted by the Catholic church. “I say, ‘Saint Anna, please bless me with pleasant surprises.' ” Typhoon Yolanda was not one of them. Orejola cut short a trip to Rome to check on the members of her cooperative here, mostly the children and grandchildren of original members, and to pay calls to her extended family. THE LORD TAKETH AWAY She arrives at the evacuation center where many of the cooperative families have taken shelter in what was the old parish hall. The adjacent church lies in ruins, its roof blown away and its wooden pews scattered and splintered. The parish members have dragged some of the battered pews to what remains of a concrete car port. They have salvaged, too, a mud-splattered lectern. A weather-beaten statue of Mary sits on an old footstool atop a makeshift altar hastily constructed of packing crates. “The Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh away,” the priest intones, as parishioners turn to greet Orejola. Children take her hand and gently bow as they raise it to their foreheads in a sign of...
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...COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE REPRESENTATION OF FAMILY IN THE TELEVISION SHOW WEEDS Name Instructor Introduction For some time now, different faculties on human psychology, sociology and cultural studies have been investigating the effect of media artifacts in influencing and dictating ideologies and perceptions in the societies that consume them. Contemporary findings indicate that media artifacts such as television shows, movies, and books, directly influence the behavior of individuals within their different social groups and determine the type of interpersonal relationships one forges with other people, relative to their role in their lives. In addition, media affect the expressions of social class and socio-economic stature through the encouragement of the consumer culture and individualism. This paper analyses the television series Weeds, seeking to highlight how the portrayal of a single-mother family mirrors the literature on single-parent families in terms of perceived structures, financial challenges, academic achievement of children and the emotional and psychological health as well as the challenges specifically affecting single mothers. Weeds is an eight-season television show depicting the character of Nancy, a recently widowed woman who struggles to a means of mitigating the growing financial problem she faces following the death of Judah, her husband. She eventually opts to expand small her marijuana retailing enterprise to make ends...
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...make bad choices and think that it’s ok whether it have to deal with sex, alcohol or drugs. By raising girls on the Disney princess movies, it gives girls a role model that is in a sense “perfect”. The princesses have been the same for 30 years and will stay the same for 30 more years. They are a role model that doesn’t change; there is no worry about them getting into abusing drugs or alcohol The Disney princesses teach girls the importance of family, friendship, acceptance and so much more. So why wouldn’t you want them to be a role model for your daughter? You have a guarantee that they won’t mess up like someone else could. A Disney princess shows the importance of family. In Beauty and the Beast we see Belle who trades her freedom to free her father and takes his place as the Beasts’ prisoner. By having Belle trade places with her father it shows that “Disney animated films contain strong messages about the importance of family relationships. Family members were often shown making sacrifices for one another, and putting their families’ well being before their own.” (Tanner 367) Even after Belle falls in love with the Beast, she leaves to go help her sick father. In Sleeping Beauty, Aurora’s mother and father give her up to the 3 fairies in order to protect her from Maleficents’ curse. For 16 years the fairies gave up magic so that they would be able to raise her in secret. In The Little Mermaid King Triton gives up his freedom for Ariel so that she wouldn’t become one of Ursula’s...
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...portion of it is hearsay; however, Ulrich did write two other books on tops similar to this one so she has a reputation for being very knowledgeable on this subject. The one and only positive way men (husbands) used women (wives) were as Deputy Husbands. A Deputy Husband would stand in the place of her husband in his absence or if he were unable to perform his duties. “Some wives were servile, some were shrews, others were respected companions who shared the authority of their spouses in the management of family affairs” (p. 38). In performing her husband’s duties, a wife not only gained the respect of her husband, but she also gained his trust as well. As a consort (“a consort tuned her life to her mate’s” (p. 9)), a wife who harmonized with her husband had spirituality and sexuality but one who did not brought unrest and sometimes wound up in the courts due to their actions. Husbands respected their wives’ domain as the center or the heart of the farm and the family, whereas, the wives were expected to respect the husband’s authority and manly duties. Another negative way men used women was for the purposes of procreation. But if...
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...Single parent families Single parenting has become a more popular style in the last couple decades. Single parenting has become one of the most common nontraditional families. According to George, “Although there are exceptions, this state usually occurs for one the three reasons: the parent was never married, the parent had separated or divorced from the spouse, or the spouse has died” (George, 2009). Single parents usually experience higher level of stress due to financial situations, high and low relationships with their children in addition to parenting styles, and sometimes the lack of rest (George, 2009). Around 43% of children live within a single parent home that is at or below the national poverty level (George, 2009). Due to not being financially stable, some single parents are forced to live in low-income neighborhoods which result into poor schooling systems. More children are likely to drop out of school and to be raised in poverty. Consequently there are more like to be teen pregnancies. Around 60% of are raised by young single parents who are less likely to get married (Feldman, 2011). In addition to teenagers are more likely to raised their child without the help and support of the father, as a result most teenagers abandon their education and have to rely on minimum wage jobs for a source of income (Feldman, 2011). According to Feldman, “ The consequences of living in a single parent families depends on the financial condition of the family and, if there...
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...Analysis interpretation of ’Me and my Family’ “Me and my Family” is a short story from 1997. The narrator is a third-person limited narrator and is subjective because it conveys the thoughts, feelings, opinions of the father, Stew. So when the narrator is subjective, we only see the story from one side and therefore we cannot verify if the narrating is true. Beside Stew, we have Masha who is the wife of Stew and mother of Kitty. Kitty plays an important and great role in this short story. Apart from the family, we hear a bit from Norm (an acquaintance of the father) and other irrelevant people. Kitty has been living in South Carolina and is described as quiet, untactful and aggressive (p. 2, l. 25) by the narrator. When Kitty became a teenager, it has just gone downhill. She came out as lesbian when she was 16 (p. 2, l. 37) and that did not exactly help her relationship with her father. With downhill, the narrator describes; “He did not remember precisely when it had happened, but Kitty, his beautiful, happy little girl, turned into a glum, weird teenager that other kids picked on. She got skinny and ugly. ” (p. 2, l. 40). The quote illustrates one of the themes of the story that is the poor relationship between father and daughter and their quarrels, as can be seen on page 3, line 86: “He grabbed her and shook her, but he could not shake the conviction off her face.” However, this is from the father’s perspective. As mentioned before, we never get to hear Kitty’s side of...
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...innovative products have plunged the modern consumer into decisions about products that were unavailable eighty years ago. Polartec jackets, snow boards, programmable VCRs, and antidepressants are among the many new and improved goods made possible by technical progress. Modern stores are filled with products previously unknown or unobtainable. Supermarkets stock kiwis from New Zealand, coffee from Guatemala, four types of tomatoes, endless breakfast cereals, and a vast array of packaged goods. Products offer the promise of personal choice, of tailoring activities to individual desires, and of expressing and creating personal identity. Our purchases are also how we take our place in society. Going to work, establishing a home, engaging in family and neighborhood activities, and enjoying leisure -- all the activities which secure membership in the modern world and its institutions -- require products for which we must pay. In traditional cultures,...
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