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Parental Involvement In Education: A Comparison Of English And Spanish Speaking Parents, Lisa Kelly-Vance, Collette Nero, Juan F. Casas, Carey S. Ryan, Bridget O. Ryalls, Sarah A. Kurien, Angela Ferguson

Psychology Faculty Publications

We examined the educational involvement of English speaking and Spanish speaking parents of students in a Dual Language Program. Parents responded to open-ended questions about how they were involved, what they would like to be involved in but were not, and what barriers prevented them from being more involved. Monitoring/assisting with homework was the most frequently mentioned involvement activity fir both groups, followed by reading with their children, school involvement and communication, and providing social and emotional support to their children. The top areas in which parents wanted to do more were school involvement and communication, social and emotional support, …

Addressing Diversity: A Case Study Of Teacher Educators' Views And Instructional Practices At A Midwestern University, Alina Slapac

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

It is well documented that while the student population is becoming more and more diverse, the teacher population remains mostly white, female, monolingual, and monocultural (Banks, 2001a; Darling-Hammond, 2002; Nieto, 2000a). Consequently, teacher education programs have the important role of addressing diversity throughout curriculum, field experiences and faculty recruitment.

The purpose of this qualitative research was to gain more understanding, from the teacher educators' perspectives, about the way diversity is being addressed at a Midwestern university by examining teacher educators' various methods of instruction, and their course materials, which focus on diversity issues and the needs of diverse learners. The …

Revista Digital Amigos - Vol 16, Número 5, Aspectos Culturales, Semos Unlimited

Amigos Revista Digital

Cover 1
Contenido 2
Las Escuelas Bilingües de Las Cruces 3
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi 4,5,6
Aspectos Culturales Programa de Radio 7
Frosty de Nieve/Frosty the Snowman 8
Asuntos de la Medicina Tradicional y la Salud Mental 9
¡Nuevo México Feliz 94 Años! 10
Así es Nuevo México 11
North America 12
Unos Pensamientos para el Año Nuevo 13
Una Actividad: Manipular los Dichos 14
Trovo: El Café y el Atole 15
New Mexico Department of Game and Fish 16
Traditional Recipes 17
Federal Writers’ Project* 1
The Golden Image 18,19,20
Respuesta al Crucigrama 20
La Serie Matt the Rat 21 …

The Power Of Journaling: A Dynamic Tool For Evaluating Student Teacher Adjustment In Cross-Cultural Contexts, Brenda B. Mackay

International Christian Community of Teacher Educators Journal

Journaling is an acceptable pedagogical and assessment tool used to help leverage a university student teacher’s emotional and spiritual growth in a 10 week cross-cultural student teaching experience. The process requires students to document their life and learning experiences.

Questions are designed for student response. Student teachers are encouraged to draw personal connections between their lives and new experiences. This article will show how journaling helped four student teachers process what Kelly and Meyers (1995) identify as the four components of cross-cultural adaptability: (1) emotional resilience, (2) flexibility/openness, (3) perceptual acuity and (4) personal autonomy. Excerpts from the personal journals …