New Lessons to Help You Explore, "Who Is an Immigrant?
Source: Submitted by Teaching
Tolerance Staff on September 14, 2016
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Key Points-
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Teaching tolerance- This is important as a
teacher to model tolerance and respect of other’s cultures and beliefs.
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Teaching students to be proud about where they
come from, instead of being embarrassed, we need to have them accept and
celebrate their heritage.
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Exploring family, culture, and community- Need
to be more aware to incorporate and learn about other cultures in our
classrooms, which will help with understanding between people and cultures.
Will build connections between the teacher and students and their families.
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Awareness of other cultures-Make time to learn
more about other cultures, because we are all working together in classes, and
the world. Also, invite parents and families to expand on this work.
Relevance-
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This lesson is very relevant for me because I am
an immigrant and have experienced the same as some of my students. Learning a
new language and becoming used to American culture, but I have not lost, or
will I lose my connection to my heritage. I believe that it is very important
to hold on to that, because it is who we are, and I want to pass this on to my
students.
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I currently have a challenging class of second
generation native speakers who are not proud of where they come from. I want to
instill in them the importance of remembering where they come from and embrace
it, rather than ignore it. It is not 100% of who are or are becoming, but it is
a large part of the people we will turn out to be. This is a great lesson that
I will be completing in my classroom very shortly.
Audience- Teachers, parents, students, administrators
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