Mrs. Dahlbo tried to help new parents in her 2nd grade class understand current societal contexts that are impacting how teachers educate children in grades 1 to 3 today. The contexts are due the
◦ increased diversity in classrooms, increased obesity, technological developments, and political changes.
◦ swell in natural disasters, growth in divorce rates, agricultural developments, and geographic changes.
◦ expansion of commercialism, escalation of alcohol and drug usage, medical developments, and economic changes.
◦ growth in housing industry, increase in out-of-school planned programming, industrial developments, and social changes.