Mexican and U.S. Schools
The Term Paper (Piton Foundation)
The link below is to an issue of an online magazine
published by the Piton Foundation in May 2004. This issue covers the Mexican
school system and how that translates to the U.S. school system. With the
immigration population growing exponentially in the U.S. and the majority of
immigrants coming from Latino communities, I felt that this article provided
some good advice. Instead of working as separate entities within the education
spectrum we should strive to understand our peers in Mexico in order to better serve
their students. You’ll come to understand teacher behavior (in Mexico),
parents’ hopes for their children, and teaching strategies used by the San
Diego County School System. I particularly like the teaching strategies this
article discusses; for example, working with the Mexican government to create
available resources for students and allotting two hours each week for content
to be taught in Spanish for ELLs. This is an area in which I think we’ll start
to see a lot of growth if collaboration continues between U.S. and Mexican education
systems.
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