As each year passes, New Zealand is becoming ever more multicultural. Migrant families come to New Zealand for different reasons, all of which are all vastly different (Smeith & Dunstan, 2015). This has implications for the education system because teachers are having increased pressure to facilitate the smooth transition of students from these migrant families into the classroom setting (Camacho & Fuligni, 2015). There are many challenges that migrant families face when they come into New Zealand. Not only are the coming into a new country with a new set of laws and cultural practises, but families have to integrate into a whole new education setting.
Challenges and implications. One major challenges for these families is that they have …show more content…
People vary in terms of how much they struggle with the language barrier. Some people simply cannot communicate with the people around them. For example ‘it is very frustrating when you cannot communicate with the people around you’ (Bich, 1992, p 34.) some people who can speak English but the cultural dialect may be different and the cultural norms may be hard for those families to establish (Freedman, 2001). This has an implication for the children as learners because not only do they deal with a new education system but also new culture also. It makes their transition into a new education system more difficult (Not just doing the tourist thing 1997). This has an implication for me as the teacher, because teachers have the power to make that process easier for those students. Conversely they can also make it all the harder for those different students …show more content…
However within the culture I have grown up with in, I had the freedom of interacting with people from different sub-cultures within my own society. For example the nature of a rural lifestyle there is a need to interact with people from different aspects of society. This helps me be sympathetic towards diverse learners because I have had experience in interacting with different types of people, and I have seen the challenges the face coming into a new culture and society. A strategy that I have used in my life, and implemented in my teaching to help integrate diverse learners in my classroom is trying to make the information that I am presenting to the diverse students relate to their context. Even though they may only speak a little English, if I am able to help integrate those students into the learning process it will help build relationships with other students specifically by allowing students to show their information in their context. (Ministry of Education, 2003). An alternative strategy that I have used is engaging in extracurricular activity with students. Extracurricular activity provides an opportunity for learners to contribute to a learning community of their own. In doing so students feel like they are in a safer environment and are contributing to a greater learning community and are therefore more likely to engage. (Camacho & Fuligni,
Challenges and implications. One major challenges for these families is that they have …show more content…
People vary in terms of how much they struggle with the language barrier. Some people simply cannot communicate with the people around them. For example ‘it is very frustrating when you cannot communicate with the people around you’ (Bich, 1992, p 34.) some people who can speak English but the cultural dialect may be different and the cultural norms may be hard for those families to establish (Freedman, 2001). This has an implication for the children as learners because not only do they deal with a new education system but also new culture also. It makes their transition into a new education system more difficult (Not just doing the tourist thing 1997). This has an implication for me as the teacher, because teachers have the power to make that process easier for those students. Conversely they can also make it all the harder for those different students …show more content…
However within the culture I have grown up with in, I had the freedom of interacting with people from different sub-cultures within my own society. For example the nature of a rural lifestyle there is a need to interact with people from different aspects of society. This helps me be sympathetic towards diverse learners because I have had experience in interacting with different types of people, and I have seen the challenges the face coming into a new culture and society. A strategy that I have used in my life, and implemented in my teaching to help integrate diverse learners in my classroom is trying to make the information that I am presenting to the diverse students relate to their context. Even though they may only speak a little English, if I am able to help integrate those students into the learning process it will help build relationships with other students specifically by allowing students to show their information in their context. (Ministry of Education, 2003). An alternative strategy that I have used is engaging in extracurricular activity with students. Extracurricular activity provides an opportunity for learners to contribute to a learning community of their own. In doing so students feel like they are in a safer environment and are contributing to a greater learning community and are therefore more likely to engage. (Camacho & Fuligni,