Understanding Students' Cultural Backgrounds
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Why is it important for teachers to understand students' culture and backgrounds in an effort to address challenging behavior?
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The Solution gives a brief overview of what culture is, how children understand culture, and how cultures may vary. The differences between a school culture and home culture of a student are identified as well as the importance of supporting a student's home culture.
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Why is it important for teachers to understand students' culture and backgrounds in an effort to address challenging behavior?
- First, it is important to understand what culture is.
According to your text, culture is part of personality and encompasses our emotions, the way people think, how they move and solve problems (Hall, 1977). The text also points out that variations occur within cultures such as socioeconomic status, occupation, temperament, language and the way personal experience impacts values and beliefs (Kaiser & Rasminsky, 2012).
- How do children understand culture?
They learn from their families almost subconsciously. By the time a child is five years old, their culture is pretty much established ...
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