WELCOME GLADIATORS...
Acculturative Stress & Social Emotional Learning Strategies
THE PROBLEM...
1/5 of students enrolled in public schools in the United States are immigrants... of these 55% of these students were born in Latin America. Latinos = largest and fastest growing minority group in the United States AND are more likely to live in poverty and less likely to have a high school diploma
BRONFENBRENNER'S ECOLOGICAL MODEL
ACCULTURATIVE STRESS... WHAT IS IT?
Bee drowning
CREATING AN ACCULTURATIVE STRESS FREE CLASSROOM
Gender
How would you support a student from a country where females are treated differently than males (either positively or negatively)?
Low Socio-Economic Status (SES)
How would you support a student coming from a low SES background by US standards, but was considered middle class from their country of origin?
Immigration Status/ Experience
How would you support a student who had a traumatic immigration experience to the United States?
Knowing what we know about the number of immigrant students... why is tackling acculturative stress so important in the classroom?
PARENTAL SUPPORT
- Open communication about child's academic achievement
- Understand home culture and background
- Parents + Teachers = Child Success
SCHOOL SUPPORT
- Facilitate parental communication
- Extend into the community
- Create positive academic intervention systems
COMMUNITY SUPPORT
- Create cohesive culture of school and community
- Extend into schools to allow students to see success stories of people in their culture
- Protect authentic cultural heritage
Bibliography
Blanco-Vega, C. O., Castro-Olivo, S. M., & Merrell, K. W. (2007). Social–Emotional Needs of Latino Immigrant Adolescents: A Sociocultural Model for Development and Implementation of Culturally Specific Interventions. Journal of Latinos and Education, 7(1), 43-61.