Task 2 Passed Scenarios

lOMoARcPSD|23780900 Task 2 A. Maria’s family is made up of two different races that are both minorities. Her parents have been under a lot of stress and they fight with each other when it all builds up. Because of the stress, they have not been able to give Maria the attention she needs. Maria’s community is made up of mostly white and middle class people. It is a small community that have different likes and ways to dress than Maria’s family does. The classmates respond to her looking different by bullying. Maria’s cultural background is different from her classmates’. She comes from two minority parents and comes from a big city. Her parents do not talk about problems and make her problems seem like they are smaller than what she makes them out to be. Stress causing fighting in her family instead of sitting down to talk and they do not seem to talk about their feelings with one another. B1. As a teacher, I would help Maria by asking the entire class to fill out a paper listing facts about their family, where they came from, and special things their families do. After reading everyone’s, I would do a lesson on a different culture every other week to expose the classmates to people who might be different than them. I would invite the families to send in a paper with the information as well to add to the responses. B1a. These actions would address the issues that Maria has because I would teach Maria’s cultural background which could help the classmates have more of an open mind with her and anyone else who might join the community. It would also include the families so they lOMoARcPSD|23780900 are aware that there are different cultures in their community and therefore help their children and themselves learn more about them. B2. I would involve Maria’s family by explaining that we want to learn more about everyone’s culture including theirs and explaining that Maria is still new so she will need some support in teaching her classmates why she might dress differently. I would tell them that if the family is struggling with stress because of the move, we can find resources in the new community together. C. In my own cultural background, I come from Hispanic and Catholic parents. My family was considered low income when I was young and now we are middle class. In our family, we have different holidays and different traditions that others normally do not celebrate. In my family, talking about feelings is not done as much and we were used to keeping our feelings to ourselves to not cause stress to others. C1. My cultural background might influence the way I respond to Maria’s situation because I would be able to relate to her feelings of being different. I would also be able to relate to her family situation because my family is very similar to hers. I would be more empathetic to Maria and try to make her feel more welcomed in the community and explain to her classmates that they need to be more accepting and welcoming.