Multicultural Education 2120
As teachers we will
have students in our class who face all kinds of adversity and risks in their
lives. It is our jobs as their teachers to make sure they health and taken care
of. Just a couple of risk factors they
can be experiencing are individual, family, or problems within the
community. Some individual problems they
could be facing is “parents lack of understanding the child’s needs, child
maltreatment, substance abuse or mental health issues, parental characteristics
such as young age and low education and nonbiological caregivers in the home”
(CDC 2012). Some problems a child might
be facing within the home could be “social isolation, family disorganization,
dissolution, violence and parenting stress, poor parent-child relationships,
and negative interactions” (CDC 2012). The
last area they could be facing risks in within the community and some examples
of that would be “community violence and concentrated neighborhood disadvantage
like high poverty, residential instability, high unemployment rates and poor
social connections” (CDC 2012). These are all just a few factors that can
affect how our students grow up and act in the classroom.
In my opinion one issue that teachers are faced with now
more than other generation is gang violence.
As a teacher you could have students involved in gangs and may not care
about school work or think that it is important to get an education. Also you could have students who are involved
in different gangs and they may try to fight each other or prove which gang is
the best. Either way it is your job to
be aware of the obstacles and know how to reach out to these kids even if they
seem unreachable.
Bibliography
Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Violence Prevention.
April, 10,2012.
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