Saturday, April 18, 2015

Norway

The origin country of which the child that will be joining my group is Norway. 
Five ways in which I will prepare myself for the child will be to learn cultural practices and basic language phrases to have communication with the child and the child's family. 
Also want to understand the day to day basics of the schooling and compare it to the schooling or day to day basics of our day. I want to be able to reason with the change and not implode too many changes at one time. 
Another couple of ways I would prepare myself would be to find someone or something to use as a beginning barrier. A talking point. Usually children/families who have a different background are less susceptible to open conversation. I wouldn't want to put someone on the spot to and not have a way to rebuttal the situation. I wouldn't want to have no way of locking in a strong personal connection with the family/child.
I would hope that I'm prepared for the family's cultural differences. It's definitely hard to understand the differences that go into family's and their cultural insight, but I wouldn't want to have a lack of diversity training to not be able to help the family transition as easily as possible. 
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