Cultural Competense Padlet by Alandra

Religious Background

alanddra — 2025-02-23 07:27:27 UTC

This is one article discussing the impact of religion on child development.

Religious beliefs and practices can shape a child's behavior, morals, and values. Many religions provide a sense of community which is crucial for emotional support. However arrogant or strict practices can sometimes limit exposure to diverse viewpoints.

Being religious and having limited exposure to different perspectives could potentially harm a child's psych: they may not understand things they learn in history or in science class if it doesn’t align with what they’ve been taught in their religion.

Sexual Orientation

alanddra — 2025-02-23 07:45:57 UTC

This atricle discusses the importance of sexual orientation and how ti affects youth.

Understanding and accepting one's sexual orientation is a key part of identity development. Supportive enviornments may foster self acceptance and confidence while negative environments may lead to emotional distress and can delay personal growth.

In the classroom a student might not be able to focus or they may feel disconnected from the rest of their peers if they expirence negative feedback about their own sexual orientation. If a student has experienced positive feedback about their sexual orientation, they may feel confident, focused and ready to learn.

Gender Identity

alanddra — 2025-02-23 07:56:17 UTC

This website can help understand gender identity.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10276116/

In this article, it discusses bullying and mental health among children who may identify differently than others.

Gender Identity plays a crucial role in how children see themselves and how they are seen by others. Supportive enviornments that affirm a childs gender identity can enhance self esteem and well being. Unsupportive enviornments can lead to emotional distress and slow down personal growth.

In the classroom, being harassed, teased or bullied due to gender identity can make it very challenging to do well in school. If school is a supporive and safe place, a child can be comfotable and secure. They will also be more willing to learn and be present.

Culture

alanddra — 2025-02-23 08:03:38 UTC

Culture background influences language, traditions, social norms and values. Culture can provide a sense of belonging and identity. Being exposed to multiple cultures can help students be more adaptable, and empathetic. Cultural differences might lead to stress, identity struggles and confusion. Culture greatly impacts the classroom environment through shaping how the students interact with each other and the teachers, the way they learn, engagement, and achievements; a favorable classroom culture creates belonging, stimulates taking risks to learn, and translates into enhanced accomplishment, while a poor one induces disengagement and diminishes learning ability.

Family Unit

alanddra — 2025-02-23 08:11:53 UTC

The family is the foundation of a child's early experiences and plays a crucial role in forming their development and worldview. The family unit is the group of people, usually parents and siblings, who serve as a child's primary caregivers and social environment, greatly impacting their development across emotional, cognitive, and social domains.

Children with actively involved families typically receive higher grades, have better attendance, and show greater engagement in their studies; on the other hand, instability or difficulties within a family can negatively affect a student's ability to focus and learn in the classroom. A strong family unit can have a significant impact on a student's classroom performance by positively influencing their academic achievement, behavior, motivation, and overall well-being.

Economic Status

alanddra — 2025-02-23 08:17:27 UTC

Economic status is based on wealth and income, a person or family's economic standing describes their social class and place in society. It may also allude to the generational transmission of that rank.

Students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds frequently face obstacles like limited exposure to enriching experiences, less access to tutoring, and possibly struggling in underfunded schools, resulting in achievement gaps compared to their higher socioeconomic peers, a student's economic status can have a significant impact on their classroom experience by influencing their access to educational resources, academic performance, learning behaviors, and overall engagement. This can manifest in lower test scores, higher dropout rates, and reduced participation in extracurricular activities.

alanddra — 2025-02-23 08:18:45 UTC

Implicit bias is when you react, think and behave unconsciously. This happens automatically. Example: A teacher might believe they are giving equal opportunity, but unconsciously call on boys more frequently due to a societal stereotype that boys are better at certain subjects.
Cultural competence is the ability of being able to understand and respect values, attitudes, and beliefs that differ across cultures. Example: A curriculum that acknowledges the diversity of the student population.

Link to depaw edu explaining implicit and explicit bias deeper.

alanddra — 2025-02-23 08:18:58 UTC

Why should framework for developing cultural competence should include valuing diversity, conducting ongoing self-assessments, managing differences, willingness to develop cultural knowledge, and the ability to adapt to the cultural needs of the community? It ensures a comprehensive approach to fostering an inclusive environment. Valuing diversity is fundamental as it acknowledges the richness that different backgrounds bring to the community. Conducting ongoing self-assessments helps individuals and institutions recognize their biases and areas for improvement, ensuring continuous growth.

Some key components of a cultural competence framework:

1. Valuing Diversity

2. Conducting Self-Assessments

3. Managing Differences

4. Cultural Knowledge Development

5. Adapting to Cultural Needs

6. Community Engagement

7. Inclusive Policies and Practices

8. Training and Education

9. Evaluation and Feedback

alanddra — 2025-02-23 08:19:13 UTC

Implicit bias can lead to the teacher treating children and their families differently from each other and can result in unequal treatment in areas such as the teacher's expectations about academic achievement, the teacher's discipline regarding the student, and overall teacher-student interaction.

Knowledge of these differences may also come into play because of certain biases around things such as race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, gender, or, even sometimes, based on mere appearance-again, completely unconsciously.

Personal reflection: Class Participation: A teacher might always question kids who seem more engaging or more able, and more often than not this is the same cultural background or way of communicating. Therefore, those from underrepresented groups tend to go through a validation-devalued experience in the classroom.

Hypothetical scenario: Interaction with Parents: A teacher may unconsciously communicate in contrasting ways to some parents' worldviews and the cultural backgrounds of some. This means that in some cases, teachers will approach parents from the minority world more formally and distanced, which also means that the communication will thus be, potentially, much less effective, which, ultimately, may lead to much less collaboration.