Valuing Student Experience Analysis

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Valuing Student Experiences
The experts and teachers featured in this segment know that students' lives are a rich source of inspiration. When children know that their families and cultures are respected and that they can freely explore their interests and passions, they find reasons to write in their own experience. In the video segment, Christine Sanchez honors her students' heritage by beginning the writing workshop with a Navajo greeting. Silvia Edgerton shows respect for her fifth-graders' culture and language through her positive responses to their purposeful use of Spanish within their English writing.
Questions to ponder:
1. Could these or similar practices be adapted for your classroom? What are some other ways to honor your students' cultural backgrounds?
• The incorporation of a Navajo greeting and positive responses to the students’ use of Spanish within their English writing could definitely be adapted to my classroom through the use of different languages and different greetings from different cultures could vary from classroom to classroom because students can come from many different cultures and speak various languages.
• Some other ways you could honor students’ cultural backgrounds include researching the different cultures in class, creating writing assignments that are related to each students’ culture, or dedicating an …show more content…

You could also ask the students to discuss their favorite things with a partner or dedicate a class period early on in the year for you to give vague topics and have the students answer with a more specific answer to better pinpoint their interests (E.g. Teacher: “Sports. What is your favorite sport?” Students: “Softball. Basketball.

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