Rohan, Your post is especially important since Assistant Secretary of Education Melendez was quoted as saying..."One in ten students in the United States is an EL, 78% of ELs are born in the U.S., and that these students speak over 400 languages.
Philomena Marinaccio-Eckel, Ph.D. Florida Atlantic University Dept. of Teaching and Learning College of Education 2912 College Ave. ES 214 Davie, FL 33314 Phone: 954-236-1070 Fax: 954-236-1050 -----Original Message----- From: Rohan Ricardo Hanslip <[email protected]> To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group <[email protected]> Sent: Fri, Jul 23, 2010 5:30 am Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Culturally Responsive Learning Hi Carol, Thanks for your response and suggestions. The cultural make-up of your classroom reinforce the idea of culturally responsive learning in today's classroom environment. I reside in South Florida, the student population in this region is very diverse. It is crucial that these students learn about other cultures and the classroom is the best place to promote such learning. As educators we know the importance of exposing our students to the cross-cultural experiences in the learning process; and so it is incumbent on us to promote such experiences in the most effective ways possible. Rohan On 7/22/10 9:05 PM, Carol Meyer wrote: > I work in a Native American school. All students have to be at least 1/16th native american in blood. In amongst that are hispanic/NA, African-American/NA, Caucasian/NA, and a variety of NA tribes. If the tribe had it's way we would only ever use NA literature in our classrooms. However, in that respect, their is a lack of well written and culturally accurate NA literature, as is there in other cultures. Since we feel it is important to study all cultures in our school because our students will be living in the world someday we rely on sites such as Oyate to find the best NA literature, we use the children's book council, we go to multicultural websites and author websites for more resources. We try to bring in NA authors to our school and would like to bring in authors of other cultures but we haven't quite convinced anyone that this would be of value to their children. And in working within our curriculum we work closely with the NA > community, and culture teachers to make sure our curriculum incorporates the culture. Carol M > > --- On Thu, 7/22/10, Rohan Ricardo Hanslip <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: Rohan Ricardo Hanslip <[email protected]> > Subject: [MOSAIC] Culturally Responsive Learning > To: [email protected] > Date: Thursday, July 22, 2010, 5:28 AM > > Hello, > > The cultural make-up of the classroom is constantly evolving and so educators have > to be current and relevant in the approaches or strategies that are used to promote > learning. What are some innovative or effective ways in which educators can > promote a culturally responsive learning environment in the classroom, especially > in reading? > > Rohan > > _______________________________________________ > Mosaic mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. > > Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mosaic mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. > > Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. > _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
