Serving Recent Immigrant Students through School-Community Partnerships
Due to an increasing number of immigrant students in not areas that they normally did not settle schools have to come up with new ways to teach. Most of these students do speak little to no English. They are struggling to adapt to a new home, culture, and environment. They often come from home were no English is spoken and there may be little to no trust for the school system. Some of these students have never attended school and do not know how to read or write in their native language. Some of them are just older students that are having a hard time with learning new material in a different language. They are unable to receive an appropriate education in a normal classroom.
School districts have to come up with a way to ensure these students receive a quality education. Many schools are doing this with the help of trusted community programs. These programs are working to not only educate the student but also the families and the teachers. The students need to be thought how to read and write English. They also need to be thought the US classroom rules and culture. They work with the families to help the better understand the way the school system works and to encourage them to get involved in the schools. They also work on teaching the families English it desired and transfer important paperwork into the native language. They work with educating the teachers with the student’s culture and on ways to better teach the student.
I really like this article. I have never attend or thought at a school with a high new immigrant population. I have never thought about how hard it would be to teach a student that did not speak English. Even if the child speaks English the culture difference can feel over whelming. A student from Mexico or Africa will not have been thought about our civil war, or