Students have multiple factors that affect their knowledge acquisition, growth, and success in a classroom, including their native language, culture, and socioeconomic status. It is important for educators to assess and reflect upon these factors to help eliminate bias and determine the best classroom instructional practices when working with students.
Create a resource for educators describing the role language, culture, and socioeconomic status plays in child development.
- 500 word handout, including documentation of resources- For your Handout: Design it! Make it colorful, engaging with pictures, graphics, etc. Use any of the free templates out there.
Utilizing the deliverable choice, present the following information to other educators:
- Unique aspects of elementary students’ language development and how language acquisition affects other areas of their development, including cognitive and social-emotional.
- Explanation of how culture affects the development and learning of children and early adolescents.
- Explanation of how socioeconomic status, including poverty, affects the development and learning of children and early adolescents. Include at least one suggestion for supporting students facing economic disparities.
- Describe how language acquisition, culture, and socioeconomic status of a student affects classroom practices. Include a discussion of how a teacher can work to eliminate potential bias that may arise in the classroom related to language, culture, and socioeconomic status, both their own bias and others.
- Provide 2-3 ways teachers can support diverse languages and cultures in the classroom to further promote student learning and development.
- Provide 2-3 local or global learning networks teachers could research or actively participate in to learn more about supporting students with factors that limit their success in the classroom.
Support your assignment with 2-3 scholarly resources.
