become familiar with community health issues and resources.
In order to help guide families in matters of health and wellness, teachers need to become familiar with community health issues and resources. Teachers are not health counsellor, nor should they become one, but they can develop some knowledge that could help them address the parents in better ways.
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make sure that you inform parents ahead of time so that they can plan on attending.
When planning familiar meeting, it is important to make sure that the information arrives at the parent with plenty of time, so they organize themselves. This is especially true when both parents are also workers, so preparation is vital to ensure that the family meeting is successful.
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successfully interact across cultures due to understanding and appreciating cultural differences.
“Cultural competency” is best defined as a teacher’s ability to successfully interact across cultures due to understanding and appreciating cultural differences. It is not required that the teacher know all the languages or the cultures present in her/his class, but it is necessary that she/he has the ability to understand the complexity and the challenge of teaching to different cultures and he/she should develop this skill as soon as possible.