Looking back to the foundation of the United States of America, the nation is built on the culture of immigrants. After the world wars, the majority of the internally displaced persons from different parts of the world got refuge in America. Until today the American population is made up of people from a different cultural background. These people have come together, interacted and made up a nation called the United States of America. American education has based its foundation on the pillars of different cultures that have come together to form a nation (Greenberg 446). Also, apart from the Native Americans, American schools receive students from different parts of the world including Europe, Asia, and Africa. These students are faced with cultural challenges as they go through their education endeavors. Also, now and then, most American schools receive new teachers from different backgrounds, and they meet the environment, conflict and societal issues when handling the students.

Introduction

One primary responsibility of teachers in education is to facilitate learning by ensuring students cover the syllabus. Apart from offering the program to the students, the teacher will realize that the profession is noble and does not only need the provision of academic concept. Teachers have the responsibility to ensure the education they offer is one that changes the heart and the mind of the learners. Getting students with different cultural origin is big challenge married by conflict, environment, and social differences (Greenberg 446). It is now the responsibility of the teachers to be creative and transform these issues into one constructive culture. Also, the teachers have to learn the diversity of every culture and try to appreciate each in its way.

Body

Newark school district is a learning center that offers education to students from various cultural origins. The teachers in this school are always met with the challenge of handling students from varied backgrounds. These students have different beliefs and some conflict with what some people may consider universal. For instance, the Arabian culture prohibits ladies from shaking hands with men while according to most of the American culture, shaking hands is a show of respect that is not limited to gender. It is upon the teachers, therefore, to understand such diversity and accommodate every student. Also, some of the students come to America for the first time, and they get affected by environmental factors such as weather, and different syllabus (Greenberg 446). It is upon the teachers to ensure the students adapt to the new environment and proceed with learning. Language is another problem that the teachers should consider. Some of these students are foreigners who have English as a foreign language.

Conclusion

To summarize, learning a student is the first thing that every teacher should consider. Before a teacher can instill learning in a student’s mind, he or she must ensure the student is ready and willing to learn.it is also confirmed that teacher’s attitude significantly affects the learning process in school. Therefore, it is advised that teachers model their attitude and accommodate every student without any form of biases.

Recommendation

Following the details of the orientation, it can also be recommended that a new teacher should use their senior colleagues to adopt into the new teaching environment. The senior staff has enough experience and skills required for handling students. Most of the teachers at Newark school have stayed for quite some time and have interacted with students from different backgrounds.

Part II — Report on Teacher Orientation

Schools Shape Society and Society Shape Schools

Education that will not change the mind, heart, and society will be a useless education. School is like a factory where useful persons are made out of learners. Students get to the schools as raw materials, and they are expected to come out as an excellent product. Besides, society is made up of both young and old people. Both the young and the old have a similar objective of shaping the society to what they desire (Collins, Allan, and Richard 24, Dougherty 206). Every society is unique and has different desires in life. However, education is universal, and its impact is expected to give society a universal direction. It is the society that comes up with the idea to make a school where their young people go to get knowledge. Without society, there would be no school in existence. Therefore, both the school and the society coexist and interdepend on one another for the betterment of each other.

To begin with, society is a system comprised of various organs with coordinated responsibilities for the betterment of society. For the community to thrive and continue to live, people have to receive better health care, have food security, and better shelter. Education provides the society with good doctors, sound engineers, and good agriculturalist. The three sectors are key areas in human society that education has extensively shaped (Collins, Allan, and Richard 24, Dougherty 206). For instance, in the ancient time when the level of education had not advanced, people used traditional medicines that were not advanced compared to today (Brian 29). Some diseases could not be treated following limited skills that the doctors had. Today, education has advanced technology to a level where almost every disease can be addressed. Also, the school has engaged doctors in researching to ensure society is safe from infection.

Adding on that, in Mesopotamia, the early agriculturalist used primitive technology in cultivation that took time and energy for people to get food out of the firms (Brian 29). Today, farming has been done on a large scale, and research continues to ensure food security is achieved in society.

According to Collins, Allan, and Richard (24), the peace enjoyed today in the society has its roots from education. Education brings civilization into society by changing how people reason and interact with their environment. A nation full of education is considered a civilized society. This is evident in the new shape society develop from schooling.

However, society also has a hand in the transformation of school. The education that is provided to students at school depends on the need of the community. For example, before diseases were experienced in society, no school dared to teach medicine. It was until various diseases started harming people that the schools rose to train doctors (Bernstein 369, Bentley 134). Society shapes the type of technical skills students learn in school. For instance, a society experiencing earthquake will require the schools to train civil and structural engineers that will help in the construction of safe and strong roads that cannot be destroyed by an earthquake.

In a nutshell, every society has its unique needs that determine the kind of education it requires. Europe, America, and Asian nations each have a unique education system, and syllabus developed according to the individual need of the country. It is the society that now shapes the schools. Also, the school has been confirmed to have the upper hand in developing community. Every change observed in society is brought by the knowledge acquired from school.

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