Intercultural Interview

Asian is a very friendly and helpful sixth grade student, who expresses interest in science and math. Currently, Asian resides with his mother, Ms. Holmes and younger brother. Asian is the oldest son. According to Asian, he states that he enjoys math, gym, music and art because they are very fun activities. Asian likes to play basketball and video game when he is not at school. He expresses interest in being part of a SWAT Team because he likes to help people out of tough situations. According to Asian’s mother, he has lots of prior knowledge from various sources about how to pursue a career in Law Enforcement. Asian enjoys assisting other classmates and tries to make an effort to be positive.

In the interview with Mom, she stated that

Mondal, mentioned, Asian can’t deal with changes to the daily schedule. He will have outbursts when he does understand why changes are made. On one observation, Asian seems to be easily distracted by other students, it very hard for him to stay on task for more than 5 minutes. On this occasion, Asian becomes frustrated and this cause Asian to struggle with the ELA assignment. The teacher had to redirect Asian several times, which didn’t make a difference, instead Asian become upset and very confrontation with the teacher. All teachers’ agreed that Asian is very argumentative with students and faculty. It will take several minutes for Asian to compose himself and has to move into a calm environment to help reduce his frustration before an adult can reason with him. On a second observation, Asian was very frustrated by the student’s in the classroom, he had to be removed and put into the “Calming Room” in the dean office. After a few minutes in the “Calming Room”, the teacher was able to talk to Asian. The teacher expresses the need for the “Calming Room” because the room help the students release their emotions and get them refocused on the

217- School of Performing Arts (Community School Setting). In various interviews with Asian’s teacher, Ms. Jones, who is Asian’s Math teacher, express concerns with explaining patterns in the number of zeros of the product when multiplying a number by powers of 10, explaining patterns in the placement of decimal point when a decimal is multiplied or divided by a power of 10, and converting measurement units correctly, in addition, Asian needs more instruction in many other math areas. Ms. Mondal, Asian’s ELA teacher, made mention of strengths, Asian is able to retell and quote accurately to explain detail from a text. He is able to compare and contrast two different characters and text. He is able to interpret figurative language, identify themes, and character traits. Ms. Mondal stated that Asian can become frustrated when he has trouble finding evidence in a text, he will shut down and it would be difficult to help him moved past his frustration. During this time, Asian’s frustration blocks his own progress. Ms. Mondal also recall, Asian is not able to independently read for long periods of