African American Student Culture Essay

In this article, it talked about Good Teacher in the school system. This article, examine different culture in the school system, it talks about the struggle of each cultural. It also talks about pedagogy. In the Native American culture, student have a hard time balance home life with school life. Cornel Pewewardy, believe student have a hard time deal with their culture life in the school system. The students have a hard time connect their school life to their everyday life at home. In the article, it suggested that student language at home should be include in the classroom, the sociolinguists said, to are more likely to be successful in school.

However, in the article, it talked about improve the pedagogy. Pedagogy is the method and practice of teaching, especially as an academic subject or theoretical concept. There are three criteria (proposition) dealing with pedagogy. It is adcamic success, cultural competence and critical consciousness. Some of the key factor on being adcamic success is literacy, numeracy, technological, social and political skills. In the 1960, the African American were fighting for their civil rights and the rights in the classroom. There are many article about African American student dealing with self-esteem. However, student must show academic competence. In a

My favorite example of cultural competence from the article is about the second grade teacher. The example is about the second grade teacher, she told her student to bring their favorite song to class. So, the student brings their favorite song to class, and one-by-one the student listens to their favorite song. However, the student had to identity the rhyming scheme, alliteration and onomatopoeia in their songs. I think this is a perfect example for cultural competence, because kids love listen to music, why not incorporates an item to help them to learn