Assignment: Migrant Workers' Perspectives A+
Purpose: The purpose of this assignment is to hypothesize the perceptions of migrant and seasonal farm worker families in the United States and to understand their needs.
Directions:
Write a reflection addressing the following questions. Please refer to the case study and the course content when writing your reflection.
1. How can educators best incorporate newly arrived immigrants?
2. How have the polices in place affected newly arrived immigrants?
3. What can we do as teachers to ease the transition for students and parents of newly arrived immigrants?
4. Discuss some of the ESL programs discussed in the case study?
5. Provide some recommendations for how schools can be better prepared to receive newly arrived immigrants.
• Family literacy programs for Latino families in the United States
• Case Study: Appropriation and Resistance in the (English) Literacy Practices of Puerto Rican Farmers, by Catherine Mazak (p. 25) from the book Cultural Practices of Literacy
• Linguistic, literacy and socio-emotional interventions for young children in migrant and seasonal farm worker families
• Harvesting hardships: Educators' views on the challenges of migrant students and their consequences on education
• Education, Unsettled: Inside the struggle to keep migrant students in school and our of the fields
• Florida Migrant Education program 2018
• Redlands Christian Migrant Association (RCMA)
• Mapping the Fields of Family Literacy in Canada
• The Impact of Family Literacy Programmes on Children's Literacy Skills and the Home Literacy Environment
• Family Literacy Tool Kit - Saskatchewan Literacy Network Literacy and Learning for Life
• Family Resource Programs Canada
• Parents Matter