Ch10 Flashcards

1
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What is better than parent participation?

A

Parent involvement

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2
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What should a teacher communicate to the family and community w.r.t. teaching their children?

A

It is a great honor and joy

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3
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What do some Asian cultures believe about the responsibility of their child’s education?

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It is fully the school’s responsibility

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4
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What type of family/community support should be avoided?

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Compensatory, where the support is to make up for believed deficiencies

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5
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What is a “cultural deficit” outlook and what does it overlook?

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  • Failure of students to meet expectations is the fault of the families and communities
  • Institutional racism and discrimination
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6
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What do literary researchers believe is key to a child’s success at school?

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The child’s literary experiences at home

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Describe the deficit based view that is based on the idea that a student’s literary experience at home is key to success? ** What does this view ignore?

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  • Intervention/Prevention
    Schools document/track take home activities that families can replicate at home. Failure to satisfactorily complete –>
  • Families are unsupportive
  • Impoverished home environment
  • Lowered expectations
    ** Ignores the ways families DO support their children’s schooling
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What are the two non-deficit based “Perspectives” based that the idea that a student’s literary experience at home is key to success?

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  • Multiple Literacies:
    Encourages using families as a resource - reinforces respect and trust
  • Social Change: ML + helps families take action against oppressive forces that cause economic & social instability
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9
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Asset view educators don’t speak of family “involvement” they speak of family ___

A

Participation

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10
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What can schools do to help families beyond teaching? (2)

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  • Ensure they are aware of support

- Reduce stress and isolation

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11
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What is true about participating parents?

A

They will feel empowered to be involved in other ways

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12
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What makes for the easiest partnership between teacher and parent?

A

Speaking the same language

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13
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What types of contact other than face-to-face are good for parent-teacher contact?

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  • Telephone calls

- Online meetings

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14
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What can be useful for bi-literate students to produce to assist in home-school contact?

A

Home-School Newsletter

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15
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What can help in gaining trust from EL families?

A

Learn a few phrases

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16
Q

What is part of students’ linguistic heritage?

A

Intra language differences and dialects

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17
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What is true about sharing a language vs. sharing a culture?

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Cultures may share a language yet be very different

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18
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What historical sociopolitical difference is an example of how these differences may create tensions between the teacher and a family?

A

North and South Vietnam

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19
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Some cultures are divided by Americanized immigrants and __

A

just comes

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20
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For the Japanese in the US, what is a source of same-cultural differences?

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The number of generations in the US

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21
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What is useful to learn for a teacher in an EL community?

A

The dominant community language

22
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What two benefits come from a teacher understanding home family habits?

A
  • Find a time and place for study

- Use resources available to the family

23
Q

What is valuable to match with schoolwork?

A

Nonacademic knowledge from the community

24
Q

What can including a communities’ employee bring to a class?

A

Relatable way to inspire lessons: Marble/Granite worker:

  • Geography (Location mined)
  • Geology (formation of rock)
  • Math (Kitchen counter cost)
25
Q

It is best to create a curriculum that draws from the ___

A

community

26
Q

What is a good activity to have students reach out to members of the community to create prevocational awareness?

A
  • Do recorded interviews on their phones
27
Q

What type of role is vital to ensure community resources are used?

A

Volunteer coordinator

28
Q

What type of advocate assists in creating a high-quality educational experience?

A

Community

29
Q

What is generally true about Russian families even if they lack English proficiency?

A

Tend to be proactive in the schools

30
Q

What cultural deficit assumption do many middle-class teachers have regarding EL families?

A
  • They don’t value education
31
Q

What kinds of difficult decisions must EL families often make regarding parental attention?

A

vs, family resources

32
Q

How can parents and family members assist in teachers overcoming the idea of cultural deficit?

A
  • They become cultural mediators
33
Q

What is a common result of cultures learning about one another?

A

It brings them together

34
Q

Name 7 things teachers can do to use parents as cultural mediators?

A
  • Establish open-door policy
  • Send written information home with assignments/goal and encourage responses
  • Call parents periodically
  • Suggest how parents can help with assignments
  • Get to know the community
  • Arrange regular parent conferences
  • Solicit parents’ views on education
35
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What did NCLB do to assist with community engagement in education? What two activities were mentioned?

A

Districts were mandated to spend 1% of their funds to engage parents

  • Notes home in EL language
  • Parent’s night in home language
36
Q

What is parental involvement consistently correlated to?

A

Academic achievement

37
Q

What are 6 rights parents have?

A
  • Free, appropriate public education
  • Information concerning educational decisions in home language
  • To make informed decisions and authorize consent before student placement
  • To be included in discussions concerning disciplinary action
  • Appeal decisions
  • Participate in meetings organized for public and parent information
38
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What are 5 issues in parental participation?

A
  • Language
  • Family Structure
  • Educational Background / Attitudes Toward Schooling
  • Knowledge and Beliefs about Education
  • Power and Status
39
Q

What was the Family Literacy Project in Pajaro Valley designed to do?

A
  • Help parents recover their lost sense of dignity

- Meet to discuss children’s books

40
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What was the Hmong Literacy Project designed to do?

A
  • Preserve the oral history
  • A newsletter that led to greater parental involvement
  • Added skills in mathematics and computers allowing parents to assist children
41
Q

What can parents and siblings do to help younger students build underlying cognitive skills? How? (2)

A
  • Use home language
  • Start the first few lines of a story and let them finish
  • Point to a picture and ask questions
42
Q

What can schools assist the community to create to support additive bilingualism?

A

Primary language newspaper

43
Q

Spanish speaking parents are more likely to involve themselves in schools and classrooms where …

A

Spanish is regularly spoken

44
Q

What was New York City model for parental participation and what did translators help parents with?

A
  • Early morning and weekend program for parents
  • Speaking as advocates for their children
  • Help children with schoolwork in every subject
45
Q

What is true about students whose parents participate in parental training/workshops?

A

More confident and attentive in class

46
Q

What happens when teacher and staff meet with parents to discuss issues?

A

Strong bonds are forged between the school and community

47
Q

What is important to drive Latino involvement in schools?

A

Latinos in leadership positions

48
Q

What is commonly correlated with less school participation from parents?

A

Less school experience

  • Latino mother < 40% HS
  • 6% White, 18% Black
49
Q

What sometimes keeps illegal immigrants from participating in schools

A

Fear of reprisals

50
Q

What can School-Community based partnerships offer students in L1?

A

Turoring

51
Q

What can CBO (Community Based Organizations) assist immigrants with? (5)

A
  • Health care
  • Educations
  • Pregnancy
  • Gang threats
  • Other basic services