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Color In The Classroom Chapter 3 Analysis

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Chapter 3 provides an in depth summary of culturally relevant teaching practices. The chapter opens with a discussion of how teachers view themselves, their students, and their students’ parents. Teachers are reluctant to acknowledge racial differences in their classroom, insisting that they “don’t see color.” When asked to explain inquities between African American students and their peers, many individuals site slavery, but if teachers are only viewing their African American students as the son’s and daughters of slaves, what does that say of their expectations for those students. Furthermore, teachers who adopt this “color-blind” approach are admitting to not accounting for differing races and cultures in their teaching and curriculum. “Saying
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