Nowadays, there are more and more immigrations in every country. Some of immigrations are for working, and some of them are for marriages. These immigrations might have their children, and these children also need to go to school. However, some of these children face discrimination at school. In the article “How Young Children of Immigrants Face Discrimination at School” (2015) by Janie T. Carnock, the author argues that young children of immigrants encounter discrimination at school, and young children are easily influenced in the early grades; they are discriminated by staff and students who are in the same age with them. Teachers may do not have patience and have low academic expectation with immigrant children; peers discriminate immigrant
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Teachers maybe do not want to that purposely. As Suttie mentions, teachers affected by psychological biases because they are human; for example, when a person who does something in a particular way, other people suppose that it is because of their character not the environmental situations (2016). That’s why children of immigrant might suffer discrimination from their teachers as well. In order to deal with the problem of discrimination at school, schools should have multicultural training meeting for teachers. Teachers will receive the teaching materials of various cultures, such as articles from newspapers or journals, and videos to discuss and afterward educate their students in the class. During the meeting, every teacher needs to discuss the materials, exchanges their thoughts. This meeting is helpful, “teachers can learn to combat their prejudice, even the implicit, if they become more aware of it and take steps to actively fight it in themselves” (Suttie, 2016). This meeting can help teachers to reform their thoughts of immigrant children by understanding the cultures of immigrant children deeply; once teachers understand their students, teachers would know how to teach
Teachers maybe do not want to that purposely. As Suttie mentions, teachers affected by psychological biases because they are human; for example, when a person who does something in a particular way, other people suppose that it is because of their character not the environmental situations (2016). That’s why children of immigrant might suffer discrimination from their teachers as well. In order to deal with the problem of discrimination at school, schools should have multicultural training meeting for teachers. Teachers will receive the teaching materials of various cultures, such as articles from newspapers or journals, and videos to discuss and afterward educate their students in the class. During the meeting, every teacher needs to discuss the materials, exchanges their thoughts. This meeting is helpful, “teachers can learn to combat their prejudice, even the implicit, if they become more aware of it and take steps to actively fight it in themselves” (Suttie, 2016). This meeting can help teachers to reform their thoughts of immigrant children by understanding the cultures of immigrant children deeply; once teachers understand their students, teachers would know how to teach