The culturally competent teacher is aware o the diverse cultural groups respresneted in his/her classroom, investigates the sociological factors that influence her students learning.

At my school I tutor a group of kindergartens for a half hour then observe in there classroom for a half hour, and then I tutor in first grade for a half hour. While I was observe in the Kindergarten classroom, the teacher had me walk around the room and help the students out whenever they needed help because they were working in centers.  Then all of a sudden one of the students I was helping started crying, I looked at the teacher a little confused and didnt really know what to do. All the other students looked at him and then went back to there work like it was no big deal.  The teacher said he has a tough home life ans sometimes he cries during class.  So she had me take him into another classroom and play candyland.

Not matter what happens in a classroom you can never be totally prepared because we all come from different backgrounds and have different experiences.  I come from an all white family so I cant really wont be able to relate to some of my students.  But no matter what happens in my classroom I will do my best to relate to my students.  Unlike Rodriguez, I will never make students change there home lives to be able to do better within the classroom.

The culturally competent teacher should be able to account for, demonstrate awareness of, and respond to the sociocultural distinctiveness of her or his students, families, and communities when planning for and delivering instruction.

Well the Providence School System has some things that they really need to figure out, like not firing all of the teachers and shutting down many key schools in children neighborhoods. One of the schools proposed to being closed is the school I'm doing my tutoring at, and when I went last week you could just feel the tension within the school.  Not only where the teachers stressed about losing the jobs but a few of the teachers had been their for over ten years and having to change to new schools and a new environment was a change that many are not looking forward to.Even through everything the teachers have been able to put the needs of the students first.

In my kindergarten group the teacher changed out one student for another who she thought would get more out of the VIPS program.  At first I had a hard time getting her to stay seated at the table we were at because she kept getting up and sitting at the other table.  But then I told her unless she wanted a SAD face on her behavior report she needed to stay seated at the table with the rest of the students.  Once I was able to get her seated the group ran smoothly and I was able to focus on working on Phonics and word blending with them.

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At my school 94% of the students qualify for subsidized lunch, and 4%of the students are ESL/Bilingual.  That many students qualifying for subsidized lunch reminded me of the school system in Mott Haven in Kozol's article.  In total their are 28 teacher at this school.  For th school year 2009-2010 test scores where at 20% proficient and for this current school year test scores are up 18 % to 38% proficient which is a nice increase to see and that schools are heading in the correct direction.