Being an El Teacher is also being a student of Culture because we have to immerse ourselves to a certain extent into the lives of our student to connect and make an impact on their learning in one way or another. Having a good understanding of our student's culture will only aid in the building of our prior knowledge so we as teachers are prepared to develop a language rich classroom/ESL program for our students .
Our lessons should be based on culture rich reading material and games to reinforce whatever concepts the students have been taught during direct instruction or small group instruction. Give the students an opportunity to demonstrate or explain something about their culture that you are learning about in English. have the students prepare to do a talk on a particular topic of interest preferably a topic that the class has been working on . I have my students do a comparison chart about things in their culture and things in the American culture that ar the same and a list of items that are different.
Some sources that I go to for learning more about any culture would be grandmothers, adults in the family, parents that are of the same culture. We can also look up websites and books from the library.
I have my students bring in any magazines, books and games that is about their culture.
Give the students every opportunity to succeed with tasks built into your lesson that they can be successful at it.
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