Transworld: Double Entry Journal #4

1. It is important to allow students to speak their personal dialect. This is who they are and with these terms they will perform best. Students who learn to write in their own dialect first have a better chance of grasping English literacy skills. By allowing students to write and talk in their own dialect teachers are showing them that although the languages are different they are similar and okay to use.

Build bridges of meaningfulness between home and school experience. The strategies within this article reflect this because the teachers allowed the students to speak at school how they speak at home and the teachers also had the students interview their parents or grandparents to better understand their dialect.
Acknowledge the legitimacy of the cultural heritages as worthy content to be taught in the formal curriculum. This strategy reflects culturally responsive teaching because within the article the teachers were sure to let their students understand that allow their dialect is different it is not wrong. The teachers allowed the students to speak and write in their dialect which taught the students that even though there dialect is different they are still intelligent and capable of learning.

3. When I was in school teachers used the Red Robin Reading strategy almost everyday in class. This strategy does not reflect culturally responsive teaching because while the students nervously read the teacher immediately corrected you if a mistake was made. This strategy definitely singles out students who are struggling readers and definitely embarrasses them in front of their classmates.
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Citations:

Epstein, P., & Harring-Harris, L. (2011, September 15). Honoring dialect and increasing student performance in standard english. Retrieved from http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print