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What are your experiences, insights, and suggestion on how our cultural values play significant impact on our parenting style, how parents perceive the future of their children's academics and achievements?
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What are the biggest challenges in aligning educational concepts or pedagogy around you or at your workplace?
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How strong these values influence the way your students see their future or layout their pathway into the career they dream about?
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Do you have any successful stories in aligning these values with your efforts in guiding your students to have the appropriate field of study based on their interests and talents?
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How far could you go, as their teachers, in giving the needed information and understanding to parents whose cultural values that dismiss the facts of their children's academics?
E.g. parents who insist their child to take biology or medical school while their child, even they're capable of doing so, has other interests or passion, perhaps in music, or entrepreneurship. Each time, there could be differences in assessing one's abilities and performances. While the parents have the rightfully place to make a decision, as teachers we sometimes hear more from their child when they share with us about their passions in life.
We live by our culture and its values, however, in education community, we sometimes have ourselves in a position where we should give appropriate feedback, that is not the same with the parents' plans or dreams.