1)
You have a child
in your class who never turns in permission forms to go on field trips, or
participate in activities that require parental consent. The child always seems
to feel left out, but you are frustrated because they have had ample time to
return the forms. You know that they liv e with their grandparents, what can
you do to help?
2)
A student who
lives with their grandparent is bringing in long division homework with work
shown that you haven’t taught. You would rather them show you their work with
conceptual understanding using pictures of word sentences. They are bringing in
work done with the standard algorithm, but cannot explain what it actually
means. They say that their grandparents say this is the way to do it. What can
you do without being disrespectful towards the way the grandparent learned?
3)
A student in your
class just moved from Guatemala at the beginning of the year. It is evident at
this point in the year that he speaks some English because you have heard him
respond to questions and hear him read in English. He seems to refuse to try to
speak English to you or other adults, and many time when you try to speak to
him, even to just encourage him, he refuses to look at you and puts his head
down, many times physically attacking you. His parent is hard to get in touch
with him by phone or e-mail. You speak NO Spanish. What do you do?
4)
You have a
conference with a parent who speaks only Spanish. Their child CAN translate,
but there is no other adult translator in the building. We know from research
that Latino parents prefer not to have their child translate for conferences.
What can you do?
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