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Talk to your neighbors :. Engaging the Local Hispanic Community Windy Roberts, University of Minnesota, Morris. Background Information AbOUT Morris . Population 5,000, with growing Hispanic community
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Talk to your neighbors: Engaging the Local Hispanic Community Windy Roberts, University of Minnesota, Morris
Background InformationAbOUT Morris • Population 5,000, with growing Hispanic community • Main employers: Superior, Hospital, Public schools, Riverview Dairy,and the University of Minnesota • The role of the university • The role of the Morris community • Center for small towns: Grants to assess the impact of the increasing Hispanic population in Morris.
Talk to your neighbors Ways to integrate the growing Hispanic community in Morris involving Spanish students: • ESL program • Jane Addams Project • Soccer league • Spanish conversation table • Lazos community group Always keeping in mind also the benefits for our students
ESL • ESL program at UMM Morris • Volunteers get 10 hours of training from the Minnesota Literacy Council to become English Language Tutors. Followed up by 6 hours of observations in the classroom. • The volunteer instructors: 10 out of the 20 volunteers are majors or minors in Spanish • These volunteers meet once a week to plan their classes and three hours a week to teach. • Sixty Hispanics from the community attend ESL classes.
Jane Addams Democracy Project • What is it? • Jane Addams School for Democracy brings immigrant families, college students and other community members together to do public work and learning. It is a community-based initiative inspired by the vision of democracy, productive citizenship, and popular education held by settlement house pioneers like Jane Addams, who created Hull House in Chicago in 1889.
Jane Addams Project Through the Jane Addams Projects the students have the opportunity to: • Exchange opinions • Support and share cultural values • Present individual perspectives on contemporary and historical issues • Develop leaderships role as community enablers
Community Standard Participate in Multilingual Communities at Home & Around the World • Standard 5.1: Students use the language both within and beyond the school setting. • Standard 5.2: Students show evidence of becoming life-long learners by using the language for personal enjoyment and enrichment.
Cultures standard Gain Knowledge and Understanding of Other Cultures • Standard 2.1: Students demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the practices and perspectives of the culture studied. • Standard 2.2: Students demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the products and perspectives of the culture studied.
La mesa de conversación Place where three communities get together to: • Meet once a week • Informally talk in Spanish about anything
Social and sports activities Soccer: • Once a week in the winter • Students from UMM and the Morris community gather • Making new friends while playing a sport
Lazos: WHO ARE WE? • A group of local community members working towards creating opportunities for the growing Morris Community. • The goal of this group is to help Latino immigrants build relationships within Morris in order to maintain a healthy, dynamic and prosperous community.
How could you get more interaction between students and the Hispanic community in your area?
