But That's Just Good Teaching! (Mar. 2)

1. I think cultural competence for students in my culture are being involved with the lesson. Being able to express how they feel about something that was talked about. I think it is important that students in my culture are able to have an opinion and to be able to voice it. I think it is also important for students to see how something they are learning may relate to their life. If they connect it to something it seems like it has meaning and it is not just pointless to learn.

2. I think that in my environment people can be pretty independent. I believe that helps so people can have feeling for what is being taught. In my culture since we are taught to speak up us voicing our opinions will help others learn as well. We are taught to express things in many different ways. Some teachers allow you to make poems or write songs about the lesson. Some that may inhibit in my school growing up was the fact that there wasn't very much diversity around us. It made it hard to relate to other people then those that are similar to you because you never were able to experience how their cultures were or beliefs.