Celebrating The Refugees Already In Our Classrooms: Memories And Advice From A Student
Refugee Story – Nepal
We are equally pleased to add as our second Student Gallery entry a powerful teacher/student interview from award-winning middle school teacher and author Heather Wolpert-Gawron. With her permission, we are linking to her December blog post Celebrating The Refugees Already In Our Classrooms: Memories And Advice From A Student, a beautiful piece for promoting cultural competence.
Through Heather’s interview with Paul, a refugee from Nepal, who entered her 5th grade class in 2001, we have a window into the challenges faced by so many of our newcomer students – and the difference a caring teacher can make. In five short clips, we can follow Paul’s school experiences in a post 9/11 climate.
Thank you again to Heather Wolpert-Gawron for a very insightful post, which we have referenced in our On Coming to America lesson. We hope Heather’s teacher/student interview model will inspire other teachers to reconnect with former students and to reflect on and document their refugee/immigrant stories.