Deep Culture
Deep Culture Differences in Elementary Classroom 2 March 2019 Being a TESOL teacher is a larger responsibility than I think we thought. We have lots of homework and research to do before we can walk into a class. Our class list of the students and a little back ground of them is vital. If no preparation is done, you are going to fail. The surface culture is where you practice saying their names, know their food tastes are and maybe even the climate they lived in. It is more important to actually get to know you students. Where they are from, how they greet one another. Maybe why their skin color is different. Not only do you need to educate yourself but the other students so that you have no labeled students. Looking at the diagram above I look at some of them and think religion is a great part of deep cultural difference. Why? Their faith can be affected by the way we respect them or the fellow students. Di