In my opinion, one of the potential challenges in a TESOL classroom are the misunderstandings. I mean, for one student something may be good and the same thing for another student from a different culture it may be bad. These kinds of situations are present in everyday TESOL classrooms.
In the future, when I'll face this problem I will apply what I've learned here in TESOL about understanding cultural changes. One of the most effective things is to talk with the family of the new student and to learn the most relevant facts of their culture. Also, we can have a cultural forum where all the families of the class are invited. These solutions help with the understanding of new cultures and also create human relationships.
When I was in the USA I went to an ESL school. I had classmates from many parts of the world, each one of them had a story to say. One thing that I admired from my teacher was how she carefully planned a "cultural night" where we had shows that each culture and the best part was that we have typical food! This activity helped us for understanding one another. It also changed our cold relationship in warmer.
We have to be very wise at the moment of teaching to a cultural classroom.
In my home culture is natural to meet persons from different cultures because my country is very diverse. In the last years, our constitution had changed and it supports these ethnics groups rights. But this reform only works if we put many efforts of our part.
I love diversity and I'm glad to have the opportunity to create relationships with persons of different cultures.
Classrooms are our student's second home but do you really make them feel like at home?
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