BYU Idaho - Fernando Rojas

One of the biggest challenges a teacher can face in a classroom is the psychological factor due to cultural issues. It has been discussed last lessons, that different cultural factors impact a student's performance. We can think just in the United States and largest cities, there is cultural diversity. Every country has its own cultural diversity or subcultures. For example, be expressive, open mind, task-focused, or the opposite of these. If a student comes from a very religious or social group, she might interpret poor performance as punishment. If we add the factor of collectivism or individualism, this can be increased. Or on the contrary, the feeling of belonging to a group can minimize it. Self-esteem is susceptible to external and internal factors. If the teachers give examples of qualifying adjectives using the students’ body types. They can fall into a psychological adaptation problem, whether they suffer from anorexia, obesity, economic issues, etc. It can result in t...

Manners can be an introductory form of people by themself. If manners are socially accepted, they would seem polite. Then if their manners are gruff or non-existent, they will be seen as rude or gross. That happens in all places, home, family, school, work, or neighbors, being polite is part of good behavior. Those could be relaxed if people around are close to them. They will depend on the people. What happens when you visit or meet a person in a different country and discover that their manners are opposite yours? Are they rude people? No. Just different customs.   Cross-cultural students will have different manners than you, even if they are from the same teacher's country. It could be a student who comes from a place where being outgoing and talking at all times would be correct and accepted. It could also be a student who asks to interact. Possibly this last student feels intimidated by the other student and ignored by the teacher. If the teacher shows authoritarianism tow...