Culturally Responsive Approaches for Family Engagement in Classrooms

This presentation explores culturally responsive approaches for working with families, children, and communities within the K12 school context. It begins with an introduction to the concept of culture and its impact on education, then outlines key learning areas that specify objectives and desired outcom...Read More

PRESENTATION

TABLE OF CONTENT
 Introduction
 Key learning areas which specify objectives and outcomes
 The ways in which families are being engaged into the classroom
 References

INTRODUCTION
 Culture illustrates all the ways of life which includes beliefs, art and institutions of a desired
population that are passed down from one generation to another.
 This demonstration is based upon the aspects of culturally responsive approaches for working
with families, children and communities in context of school.
 Moreover, this presentation will discuss over key learning areas which highly able to specify the
objectives as well as desired outcome over which an individual requires to focus along with the
ways in which the overall outcome will be delivered.

KEY LEARNING AREAS WHICH SPECIFY
OBJECTIVES AND OUTCOMES
 Key learning areas that are related to the project which is based upon the culturally responsive
approaches for working with children, families and communities in school context illustrates that
the primary objective of the project is based upon identification of relevant approaches in order to
provide appropriate outcome.
 Effective objectives have been set so that suitable results can be identified and determined. This
provides information about the school culture through which certain approaches had been
discussed. Objectives are the things that helps an individual to work towards as well as help in
order to direct efforts and energy.
 Within the report, the learning objectives were related to different approaches which illustrates
that there are certain approaches named as culturally responsive is an approach to view children
as their asset and identity which includes race, ethnicity and other characteristics.
 Moreover, in order to address and illustrate learning across the curriculum content that requires to
be delivered in appropriate manner consists of cross curriculum priorities as well as general
capabilities which help to assist learners to achieve wide learning outcome.

THE WAYS IN WHICH FAMILIES ARE BEING
ENGAGED INTO THE CLASSROOM
Inclusive schools are the ones that have maintained success over time has a very important commonality
which includes the engagement of family members into the meaningful school as well as classroom
activities. Family engagement is highly significant and necessary component while nurturing school
environment of acceptance as well as support. Although it somehow depends upon the culture of the country
along with family structures all across the place. In general, there are several activities and ways through
which one can encourage family involvement such as:
 Try diversified ways to communicate with the family members which includes making phone calls,
written notes as well as using email methods to convey the appropriate message towards them. Although
it requires keeping log and records as well about how each family prefers to communicate.
 Acknowledge that most of the families are busy thus keep the meetings precise and short which illustrate
to the point conversations about the student.
 Always initiate conversation with families which are based upon the positive grounds and highlight the
optimistic part of the learner. It also requires ensuring that each interaction involves some encouraging
news about the child.

CONTD.
 Empower families by providing them the opportunities in order to organize as well as lead an event
or activity they wish to. Taking complete accountability for a project without receiving orders from
the tutors can help to provide positive response and experiences for family members.
 Moreover, with the help of finding common grounds of talk, one can be willing to talk about the
student to their parents.
 With the help of developing appropriate quality programmes in collaboration of parents and reflects
their interests as well as requirements.
Thus, parents are the most important partner in a child’s education as well as overall development
through which schools can reap large dividends by getting capital as well as high level of support as
well. Moreover, this specific relationship requires a lot of work by both the educator as well as the
learner’s parents.

EVALUATION FOR THE RESOURCES WHICH
CAN BE USED IN CLASSROOM
 Classroom resources are efficient, it incorporates the hassle
free learning process, they are beneficial for both teacher
and student, with this instructor can easily deliver the better
aspect of the course and with this student will easily form
the knowledge about the particular topic.
 Videos: Approaching with the video or visual form helps in
enhancing the knowledge of the learner.

CONTD
 As videos develops the more engaging sensory occurrence as compared to the print content.
 With this learner get to access the topic as they see and hear the topic which is being taught to them,
thus they can easily process it in same manner they process their daily interactions.
 Thus with this teacher can also proceed to arrange the resources such as to record the diverse cultural
families video and through this it can help the teacher to enable the learners about to learn the cross
cultural knowledge.

CONTD..
 Power points: Presentation is always beneficial to make the learning process
simpler and enhance the learning experience of the learner.
 It is always better to initiate with presentation to begin with certain topic. It is
especially handy when to splits the information into some modules in every slides,
as it helps the learner to grasp the knowledge.
 With this tutor can easily enhance the intellect of the learner at the same time it
also guides the teacher about the teaching methods.

CONTD..
 Different fonts, visual aspects help the learners to learn the new
things fast that helps in their academic performance.
 Thus for teaching the cross cultural like things with the help of
presentation tutor can easily engage the students with such concept as
to show the pictures will help in clearing the concept.

CONTD..
 Worksheets: These are very important in the classroom as it
guides in engaging the student with the topic, it is also
beneficial for the complete class discussion as well.
 It is usually available in different colours which looks
attractive so that it can be more interesting for the learners to
engage with as compared to copying the information into the
exercise books.

BEST PRACTICE FOR MAKING THINGS
HAPPEN IN THE CLASSROOM
 Teaching and learning can only be successful when the outcomes are good as it is
important that each student perform well which assures the effortless teaching of
the tutor.
 As to analyse the students learning it is important for the teacher to create the
assignments, utilise the classroom techniques to do the quiz and question answer
round.
 Thus with this teacher can easily get the idea about the student’s learning as what
extent every individual have developed the concept about particular topic.


CONTD..
 Thus also with the weekly tests and assignment, teacher can easily evaluate
the learning of the student so that it helps in making the next step to engage
the student with the topic to enhance their knowledge.
 Best practice can be active learning as it is referring to the process of
engaging the learners in practices not only keep them engage in the
passively listening for enhancing their academic intake.

CONTD..
 Concept mapping best practice can also be utilised for outlining the
study format in academics. Instead of relying on the linear state,
concept maps can be used as they are the graphical tools which
allow to arrange and present the knowledge.
 Thus concepts are outlines in the specific boxes and that are linked
with the other concept by using the linking lines.

CONTD..
 Flipping the classroom is also a best practice in learning and teaching as tutor
organise the activities like lectures, whole class discussions.
 In this students are allowed to learn the concept by reading the textbook to
indulge into the classroom activities.
 By using the flipping classroom concept where the classes switch from the
teaching to learning activities.

CONCLUSION
 From the above presentation it is concluded that having a knowledge in the cross
cultural concept helps in every aspect.
 As for the academics it is important for the teacher to practice the inclusive
teaching, then they would be able to teach the students about cultural concept and
make them to interact with each other and do not bully student on the basis of
their different cultural background.
 Above has illustrated the key learning areas and the approaches to involve the
families in the classroom.

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