Double Entry Journal #4

1.Teachers need to know how to teach their students and help them develop their literacy stills. I learned some helpful hints while reading this article. Most students that grew up in the region of Appalachia are at a disadvantage when taking standardized test becaue their literacy knowledge is different than the literacy that is on the test. So as a teacher you need to practice standardized testing with your students so that they will be familiar with the literacy on those tests. Also as a teacher you need to teach your students that their language is fine to use but they need to know how to distinguish between when to use their regular language and standard english. Also you need to let the students freely write in what ever way that makes them feel comfortable. Many students are afraid to write they way they want because they don't want to be judged by the teacher.

2. Great teachers will use culturally responsive teaching stratigies. This article presented a few stratigies to use for instruction. Teachers need to teach their students to know and praise their own cultures along with others cultures as well. If students get to know one anothers backgrounds and cultures it will build a sense of community in the classroom. By building a sense of community the classroom will have a more relaxed learning enviornment. Also teachers need to use different stratigies that are connected to different learning styles. All of your students are going to learn in different ways so you need to make sure you hit different learning styles so that not every lesson is taught to the same learning style.

3. In elementary school we had to do research on our family for a family tree. This was a good lesson for a cultural responsive teaching stratigy because we learned about each other and were we came from.

Resource:

Epstein, P. (2011, September 15). honoring dialect and increasing student performance in standard english. Retrieved from http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/resource/3655

4.

I really liked this image because it's a reminder that we are all different and no one is alike. We also need to respect each other and understand everyone has different cultures that they come from.