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Lisa Delpit in Chapter 4 was questioning, What Should Teachers Do? Delpit was arguing as an educator that you shouldn’t force a child to speak English that’s from another country or culture. Constantly forcing the child will cause a gap in a relationship with the student; destroying confidence of learning and questioning or possibly even disrespecting. Instead of being too critical, Delpit states that you should learn the child’s culture/country to form a positive bond between the student and teacher. Some ideas that were given was creating a bilingual dictionary for both the teacher & student, having the students teacher each other language/culture, reading entertainment such as comic books, recording the students speak English to perfect
ICC9K1 Personal cultural biases and differences that affect one’s teaching. - Competency 4 I am very careful to be respectful of the various cultures and differences among the students at my school, so this does not impact my teaching. I differentiate my instruction in order to accommodate the needs. I am in a school with students from a wide range of countries.
I read White Teacher by Vivian Gussin Paley and was immediately drawn in by her writing style. I also find it easy to relate to her as the proverbial female, middle class, white teacher (or soon to be in my case) and her concerns about whether to draw attention to her students’ differences (would this make it better or worse for that student?) or pretend that there are no differences (is that fair to that student, to the whole class?). The questions she posed in her preface really summed up what I have found myself grappling with in this class: is this classroom in which I live a fair place for every child who enters? Does every child and family have an equal say in the worlds we invent?
Thompson’s notion of the ‘virtual schoolbag’ is an important one for educators to know. Why? Thompson’s theory of the ‘virtual schoolbag’ provides educators with an invaluable metaphor for the unique experiences, knowledge, talents, interests, challenges and difficulties that each student brings with them to school every day. Children from some socio-cultural backgrounds naturally feel more comfortable than others in the school environment (Thompson, 2002, p.5), the ‘virtual schoolbag’ highlights this disparity and can assist educators to enact a more relevant curriculum, in an environment that feels more inclusive to everyone. Diversity must be celebrated alongside similarities in order to provide all children with truly equal opportunities
This chapter was an eye opener for me because I haven’t had much adversity while perusing my certificate. So to hear stories of others and what it looks like through their eyes makes me step back and appreciate those from other cultures who go into the education field. I think it is important to have diverse teachers because we all know we have diverse
Madison W. I read the book The Baby Sitter Club The truth about Stacey by Ann M. Martin. The genre of this book is a graphic novel. This novel really surprised me about how good it ended. This book is encouraging me to read the next one.
The K-12 public education system is designed primarily for the success of students from white middle-class families. While historically, this was the population served by this system, current demographic trends are making this model anachronistic. To facilitate the success of all students, schools are increasingly relying on programs that establish social and cultural norms so that all students are able to understand acceptable school behavior. These programs are diverse. Some focus on discipline techniques that alter behavior, others focus on teaching all students how to appropriately advocate for themselves, while others attempt to build the student's’ character.
I believe that all children are individuals, unique in their abilities, from a wide diversity of backgrounds and cultures, and they also have the right to be treated with dignity and respect. Educators are observers and designers who have to observe children’s abilities, interests and learning styles for designing a curriculum that fulfill everyone’s needs. Observers also play an important role on noticing individual differences and offering help to children who have lower ability to improve
Students of all nationalities, ethnicities, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, and socio-economic classes are welcome in my classroom. This success system was designed to help those who it was designed to ensure some would succeed while others failed. I will mend at least a portion of this achievement gap between the haves and the have-nots. I want to empower others with the knowledge of the reality of their situations, but also with the knowledge and tools for success in academics and life. As an educator, a black educator, a black woman educator, I understand, as far as my experience allows, the importance of multicultural education.
These lessons are not only vital in childhood but are needed throughout life. ‘‘Inclusion, multicultural, and non-sexist children’s literature also gives students in the "majority" an understanding of their "minority" peers struggles, triumphs, and contribution to our culture and society’’(Pirofski). Being exposed to people from different parts of the world or have special needs is very important in child development, hand in hand with them grasping new concepts. Children's literature gives students an understanding of what struggles and issues that goes in their society. This helps children know the full spectrum growing up and now growing up to be ignorant or misinformed of situations around them that are not hardcore taught in society.
As of recently, I’ve learned that it is important to look at ourselves to one, find our biases, and second, so we can know who we are and what are beliefs are. If we don’t do this, then we end up going through life without realizing why we feel the way we do or why we act the way we do. This especially important since all of us are aiming to become teachers. In our classrooms we are going to be teaching students who come from multiple backgrounds, so we need to be culturally aware of who that student is and what their past experiences could be like. Our authors Nieto and Bode made this clear on page 5 when they stated, “Identities always carry some baggage; they are perceived ways by a society and by individuals within that society” (Nieto & Bode 2012).
Three cultural identifiers from uncertified teachers are educational background, academic social achievement, and work
thesis: 1) proper education can inspire a positive attitude to racism 2) education helps racial students to move from intolerance to acceptance and understanding of cultural difference 3) education provides cognitive skills, which increases people’s captivity people’s capacity to detect prejudice and to reject it. Is Education the Best Inversion Against Racism? The ex Prime minister of Britain Tony Blair has always insisted the importance of education in preventing racism. According to Tony Blair some people are born to be bad, you can’t stop people from being bad (Blair, T. Education backs Lessons Against racism 1999.) proper education can help get rid of prejudice and changes in the national curriculum of the British educative system whereby
IDEA lists three ways of being culturally skilled in the classroom. This includes the teacher being culturally alert in the class to connect the gap of learning about other ethnicities, learning to communicate to students in unwritten and non-vocal styles, and know the different views of the cultures, for example, skin-to skin contact, no communication, the clothing of the student, and simple gestures. This is important in my eyes because my school alone is very diverse, and I had my share of teachers that did not respect a certain students religion or culture. This upset me and made me want to learn more about different cultures and religions. It also leads me to want to work harder to become more culturally aware, and diverse for my future students and willing to do what I can to break down barriers that may be created by students of different cultures or religions.
My first reaction to having to read True Education by Ellen G. White was “oh great, I have to read another Ellen White book.” Throughout my life I was preached at about how Ellen White said such and such, meaning if I do not follow what she says I am a rebelious and unrighteous person. With this being said, I am glad that I was able to put my negative thoughts aside and dig deep into the topics, because after reading the book I have gained some new ideas and perspectives on how to go about educating in the classroom. However, I am only going to focus on the few that really stuck out to me. Some of them being able to comprehend the nature of human beings and their purpose, using several different teaching tactics, and the need for teachers and parents to work together.
