Thursday, February 25, 2010

Prompt 2

Yesterday was my second day of tutoring and it was really fun. The kids were making homemade mint play doh when I came in at 10:30 and when they were done they all got to play with some. I sat with two of the kids and we made spaghetti and meatballs, dice, ice cream, pancakes, and many other things with the play doh. It was really fun!! The kids were just starting to get to know me and it seems like they like me, which is a good thing. Then, at 11:45, they went to lunch and I helped the teacher clean up and set up the cots for nap time until I had to leave at 12.

Linguistics- The kids all speak English, but you can tell that some of them have a little accent, meaning maybe they speak a second language at home (Spanish, etc.).
Ethnic- On the demographics report of the Salt survey for this school, it says that 11% of the kids are white, 46% are black, 13% are hispanic, 1% are asian, 2% are Native Hawaiian, and 26% are multi-ethnic, meaning they are more than one race. This seems true in the class that I am tutoring in because most of the class is black, where there are no asians in the class, and only 3 white kids inf the class, and you can tell that some of them are multi-ethnic.
Sociocultural- Just by looking at the kids, you can't really tell exactly what their sociocultural background is, but it seems to me that many of them are different in this aspect.

With this said, I believe that if the teachers would all include every culture in their lesson plans throughout the year so they would include a diverse amount of information and not leave any kid's beliefs out, there would be a huge change in the way the kids perform in class.

2 comments:

  1. Great demographics research on inforwoks, and look at the SLAT survey for your school. Keep observing and maybe you'll find that this teacher is doing just this...

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