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.