10/23/20 week 7: Cross-Cultural Students in the Classroom

Cross-Cultural Students in the Classroom

You will always be dealing with different paradigms and different situations

Subcultures are more closely of us. We are costumed to share our relations with whose is in around us. The feel sharing of have the same paradigms is comfortable. In our dealings is difficult have present the idea of misunderstanding because it don't ever we front these circumstances.

Having a mind receptive to assimilate diverse behaviors inside of class require us tolerance question our own paradigms to don't fall in negative feelings. Some experiences can surprise us, trying to assimilate wrong postures.

Some of the subcultures are more expressive than others
African Americans have a very expressive subculture

The expressivity seem to have a scale to students are from of others cultures or subcultures. If they are very expressive it not means that they are bad or rude. They act in concordance to the rules of their own culture. 

Some Asian students will go so far as to not even look the teacher in the eyes because that would show disrespect

The respect to the teacher bring us challenges to understand it. If we see behaviors that are in opposition to the rulers of  our own culture will be complicate don't feel us weird. In some places to be very expressive or don't show emotions can be considered negative.

I believe that the visual contact communicates feelings and emotions. These can be positive like respect and admiration  or negative like anger and worry.

"What I don't like about American students is that before class ends, they are always packing up their things while the teacher is still talking. It shows shocking disrespect." 

In America the time is sacred. Following this affirmation I realize that is difficult retain students knowing that in some minutes finalize the time of class. Teachers are challenge to plain with anticipation lessons letting free minutes after to culminate their lesson.

"In America, the students have all left the room before the teacher is even done talking!" 

The establishment of rules in the class counting with the participation from students can to allow an environment of respect where predominate the personal compromise to rules of convivence.

Whenever a student is from a different place or ethnic group or something does anything weird, you have to give them the benefit of the doubt. Even though you may be interpreting it negatively, it may not be meant negatively

We sometimes can have the tendency to make accelerate judgment when we see a weird behavior. These advices help us to more tolerance with the students having the wish to know what are the causes of them.