-: Having that multi-cultural knapsack,
and knowing where your students are coming from
and how different cultures act in different way
is huge in being an instructional coach,
because when you look at the overall student
in the classroom, and if a teacher is having
an issue with a student that is not from America,
it could be a cultural thing.
For example, we have a student now from Turkey,
and he doesn't understand a lot of the cultural norms,
so a lot of the times, the teacher might snap at him,
and I'm like, "Look, you have to realize
"he's coming from Turkey, he's coming
"from a different country, and their social norms
"are a little different from us," so
a lot of my time's I actually take him out
five minutes a day, and we have
little conversations about social norms
and what's normal here in America, compared to Turkey.
And he's very receptive about it.