How you can help - not hurt - someone from Eastern Europe in your classroom
Disclaimer
The tone I usually try to give in my posts is that we're all one big happy European family. But in real life it isn't always like that. I do truly believe in the one Europe which binds us all together - or at least the Eurasian subcontinent?
Everyone - are you listening quietly and carefully? Or however you listen and learn best?
This is the Harriet McCarthy survey about international adoptees. It has some useful and some wise advice.
How you can help - not hurt - someone from Eastern Europe in your classroom
The tale of Harriet McCarthy - an instructive one.
And Boris Gindis is fantastic. I'm a real fan of his.
I will put in some links for you specially about language and education.
One VERY IMPORTANT thing to remember is that many will not actually speak their native language.
This is a tragedy, a travesty, a real sacred cow of mine.
But first, if you are a child of 6 or 7, this may just be the way to go. I know some older students who could have benefited from this.
Here are the Gindis articles that I think will sort you out:
School Issues
Cognitive issues
International Adoption research
Emotions and Trauma - look at the Post Traumatic Stress Disorder bits especially. Then you will see how this condition affects learning in the most profound ways.
And where we started from in the first place: Language Issues.
And I so recommend Gindis on insititutional autism. He is a legend in the field just like Federici and Rutter too. But unlike Federici, I do not think his treatments are coercive. And Mum hates Federici. As a parent it really gets up her socks when people do the things shown in Taming the Problem Child. I'm still against corporal punishment. Wrongly used, it makes children into little Hitlers.
Medical issues like institutional autism (note that 8 out of 9 have organic symptoms and only 1 was truly 'institutionally' so), FAS and other things you might meet.
How to understand and evalaute these things better.
And because I'm such an interventionist - what to DO about it.
Once you have listened, you are learning. And now that you are learning, you take action.
Thought. Feeling. Action. These are the basics of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. Which is not all that bad as a therapy.
My last article. I downloaded it back in 2001. If nothing else, read it for what not to do.
The tone I usually try to give in my posts is that we're all one big happy European family. But in real life it isn't always like that. I do truly believe in the one Europe which binds us all together - or at least the Eurasian subcontinent?
Everyone - are you listening quietly and carefully? Or however you listen and learn best?
This is the Harriet McCarthy survey about international adoptees. It has some useful and some wise advice.
How you can help - not hurt - someone from Eastern Europe in your classroom
The tale of Harriet McCarthy - an instructive one.
And Boris Gindis is fantastic. I'm a real fan of his.
I will put in some links for you specially about language and education.
One VERY IMPORTANT thing to remember is that many will not actually speak their native language.
This is a tragedy, a travesty, a real sacred cow of mine.
But first, if you are a child of 6 or 7, this may just be the way to go. I know some older students who could have benefited from this.
Here are the Gindis articles that I think will sort you out:
School Issues
Cognitive issues
International Adoption research
Emotions and Trauma - look at the Post Traumatic Stress Disorder bits especially. Then you will see how this condition affects learning in the most profound ways.
And where we started from in the first place: Language Issues.
And I so recommend Gindis on insititutional autism. He is a legend in the field just like Federici and Rutter too. But unlike Federici, I do not think his treatments are coercive. And Mum hates Federici. As a parent it really gets up her socks when people do the things shown in Taming the Problem Child. I'm still against corporal punishment. Wrongly used, it makes children into little Hitlers.
Medical issues like institutional autism (note that 8 out of 9 have organic symptoms and only 1 was truly 'institutionally' so), FAS and other things you might meet.
How to understand and evalaute these things better.
And because I'm such an interventionist - what to DO about it.
Once you have listened, you are learning. And now that you are learning, you take action.
Thought. Feeling. Action. These are the basics of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. Which is not all that bad as a therapy.
My last article. I downloaded it back in 2001. If nothing else, read it for what not to do.