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    this is my reflection on the cultural competency resources that we read.

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    And the first thing that I want to do is I kind of want to talk

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    about some easy ways that you can start

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    getting some cultural competency into your classroom.

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    The first is making sure that you are showing respect for all of your students.

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    Um and I think it's important to be sure that um my

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    students or your students show respect for each other as well.

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    I think that's a skill that definitely needs to be taught to students.

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    And so showing that modeling that and teaching kids how to do that is one way that

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    you can really have that cultural competency.

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    Another is I can use community meetings to get to know my students better

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    um and to let them get to know each other better as well.

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    This is a great way to share things to um normalize those differences.

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    Um and to celebrate them.

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    Community meetings have been a part of our

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    um school day for the past two years and I really do think it's helped to

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    build that community to help us show the

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    differences between each other and talk about how

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    um those differences are are good things

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    and the faculty focused article.

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    I really enjoyed the part about the effective accommodations for students,

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    such as giving them extra time for exams, um tests given in the other room.

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    So that way they can write something,

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    read it aloud to hear how it sounds and then start um like a final copy

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    of it and then time to verbally communicate

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    their ideas before having to write them down.

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    And I really loved hearing about these things honestly,

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    because there are things that I often do already in the classroom without thinking

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    um about how those are

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    helping me be culturally competent for my students.

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    Um

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    teach students how to be active listeners.

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    Um This is something that we already cover up

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    my school through a program called Second Step,

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    which focuses on um social and emotional learning.

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    So I can kind of use that information as a jumping off point with my students

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    um to dove a little bit deeper and talk about how that

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    um helps them really listen to each other, get to know each other better.

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    Um And then they can also show that cultural competency

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    when it comes to my fellow teachers and administrators.

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    Um I would love to give a presentation about cultural competency in the classroom,

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    especially after having read these resources.

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    Um I feel like there are a lot of easy things and little things that teachers can do,

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    like a lot of what I've talked about in this presentation

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    um to become culturally competent.

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    Um and I think they can, if they just know what those things are