1. Brief Overview Of PLC & Culturally Responsive Teaching Strategies

2. Education and Parental Involvement

3. Hispanic Culture Hispanics encompasses a group comprised of people of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, and other Hispanic origin.

4. Educational Lag Hispanics are failing to keep up the pace in education. Most of the lagging is due to contributing factors in education that causes Hispanics to fall behind.

5. Contributing Factors in the Educational Lag Sociocultural variables of Hispanics Family status/composition Educational values School segregation Poverty Population

6. Poverty Poverty has hit hard in the Hispanic culture. Deblassie & Deblassie (1996) states, “Hispanics are the poorest of all minority groups in the United States. Over 25% of Americans with Hispanic backgrounds are below the poverty line” (Deblassie & Deblassie, 1996).

7. Educational Values Hispanic children are at risk of academic underachievement. Their parents educational attainment is low and over 10% of Hispanic students do not enroll in high schools.

8. Population Hispanic population continues to grow in the United States. Therefore, educational access have to grow in order to focus on the growing population trend since Hispanics are becoming a permanent part of America. Also, Hispanics are the most underrepresented culture in terms of providing opportunities to gain a higher education degree.

9. Family Status According to Johnson (2011), “Many Hispanic men leave their families in Mexico or other country of origin to come work in crawfish fields for a season or to work where ever they can. This income provides a better way of life, but comes with a sacrifice of time away from the family” (Johnson, 2011).

11. School Segregation DeBlassie & DeBlassie (1996) states, “Hispanic students now have the unfortunate distinction of being the most segregated ethnic/racial group in our nation’s schools” (DeBlassie & DeBlassie, 1996). Segregation among Hispanics seem to be a connection based on ethnic isolation and limited educational opportunities.

12. Sociocultural Variables The parents of many Hispanic children education levels are very low, which contribute to the low socioeconomic levels, therefore, they cannot advocate for the children’s educational needs.

13. Strategies for Teaching Education Among Hispanics Teacher preparation programs Bilingualism and Cognitive development skills Hispanic appropriate and conductive curriculum Tutoring Systems Attention to different learning styles Second language program

14. Parental Involvement Hispanic fathers are very much involved with childbirth Mother’s responsibility is to be the main parent for caring and sending them to school Hispanic men feel they are the financial provider for the family Hispanic men feel their main position is “power” Most Hispanic women do not work because they have to care for the children

15. Parental Involvement (continued) Planting, Malmo, Adepeju, & NY (2011) states, “when women become faced with the workforce, an unhealthy environment form which effects the family’s health because the men feel inferior and cause domestic violence and destructive behavior, which may result in divorce” (Planting, Malmo, Adepeju, & NY, 2011).

16. Diversity is knowledge

17. References DeBlassie, A. M., & DeBlassie, R. R., (Spring 1996). Education of Hispanic Youth: A Cultural Lag. Adolescence 3(121), 205-216. Retrieved from http://web.a.ebscohost.com.proxy- library.ashford.edu/ehost/detail?vid=7&sid=279d6449-83380-4661-847f- 7ba5b5a3a2af%40sessionmgr4003&hid=4107&bdata=JKF1dGhUeXBIPWlwLGNwa WQmY3VzdGlkPXM4ODU2ODk3JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3

18. References (continued) Johnson, R. (2011). A Description Study into Hispanic Youth and Educational Impacts. Journal of Alternative Perspectives in the Social Sciences, 3(1), 168-182. Retrieved from http://web.a.ebscohost.com.proxy-library.ashford.edu/ehost/detail?vid=10&sid=279d6449- 8380-4661-847f- 7ba5b5a3a2af%40sessionmgr4003&hid=4107&bdata=JkF1dGhUeXBlPWlwLGNwaWQ mY3VzdGlkPXM4ODU2ODk3JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=a9h&AN=61822301

19. References (continued) Planting, L., Malmo, S., Adepeju, A., & NY, G., (2011). Positive Health Outcomes of Fathers’ Involvement in Pregnancy and Childbirth Parental Support: A Scope Study Literature Review. Fathering 9(1), 87-102. Retrieved from http://web.a.ebscohost.com.proxy- library.ashford.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=279d6449-8380-4661-847f- 7ba5b5a3a2af%40sessionmgr4003&vid=12&hid=410

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