ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a summary of Teaching and Supporting Migrant Children in Our Schools: A Culturally Proficient Approach, designed to enhance and improve educators’ effectiveness with migrant students and their families. It helps educators to think deeply about their roles and responsibilities in the education of children of farmworker families. Serving the educational needs of our migrant students has become a conundrum for many schools. Migrant students are predominantly of Latino/Mexican descent and face the same educational inadequacies as their urban counterparts. Given the growing numbers of immigrant and migrant students across the United States, it is vital that educators, school districts/boards, and social service agencies strengthen their cultural proficiency knowledge and skills to work effectively with migrant students. The Cultural Proficiency displays a range of negative to positive viewpoints that reveal an inside-out approach in planning for personal and organizational growth.
