The rapidly expanding diversity and variety of student pool in American schools due to race and culture challenges not only first year teachers but also experienced educators. So the critical concern related to this diverse classrooms are stereotyping, inter cultural conflict and frustration. To create a classroom environment that supports these diversity lies on teacher so that this sustainability crisis is addressed to meet each student’s personality and to reduce the discomfort of the child in the transmission of culture. Teacher are eye witnesses to the inequality/segregation (educational opportunity, voucher system, industry embedded academies) in the school system. Teachers can be at the forefront in raising awareness to these injustices …show more content…
Schools have to take more drastic measure like using metal detectors and identification card for all strangers. If the child feel insecure in such environment the result is poor education. Stereotyping and frustration generates in such climate irrespective to the intelligence of the students. Delpit’s narrative, ‘There is No Achievement Gap at Birth’ outlines key strategies for raising the expectations of minority black students with research based studies and examples. Through this passage Delpit refutes the myth that ‘black children are innately less capable, they are somehow inferior’, by citing the studies conducted by French researcher Marcelle Geber and William Frankenburg, a professor of pediatrics and preventive medicine. These studies show that genetics and culture are not the problem. The problem is that many poor African American students are simply not being taught (Delpit, “Multiplication is for White People” pg25). In the book Dream Keepers, Ladson-Billings highlights the growing educational and anthropological literature on ways in which school can be made more compatible with the students’ cultural backgrounds. The chapter identifies a lack in the literature on the experiences of African American students specifically, and offers culturally relevant teaching as a way to address …show more content…
These ideas helps to foster the effectiveness with individuals from all socioeconomic backgrounds. According to Payne creating relationships with students in poverty is a key element to student achievement. “Because poverty is about relationships as well as entertainment, the most significant motivator for these students is relationships”(p. 109, Payne 2005). She emphasize that a successful relationship honors and respects individual child and then provides variety of route for educators and institutions to improve the quality of education. In the book letters to a young teacher, Kozol point out that teachers can learn from older faculty especially when dealing with troublesome situations in the classroom. Older faculty are a resource that should not be thrown out of the window. Getting to know the parents of our students is just as important as getting to know the students as elements that can help the teacher better teach his children can be drawn from such knowledge. Reach out and make an extra effort to know "uncooperative parents” often tagged in urban districts as “negro parents not committed to the education of their children”. These parents are sometimes intimidated or weary of the education system and showing them you care will go a long way to gaining their trust as a teacher of their
Authors Glenn E. Singleton and Curtis Linton in Chapter Five of Courageous Conversations About Race broach the topic of race, by asking the reader to evaluate his or her own consciousness of race. According to the authors, in order to address the achievement gaps between African American students and White students, educators should shift their energy towards focusing on the factors that they have direct control of inside the classroom rather than on the factors that influence this achievement disparity between races outside the classroom.
The. Landsman, Julie G., and Chance W. Lewis. White Teachers / Diverse Classrooms: Creating Inclusive Schools, Building on Students' Diversity, and Providing True Educational Equity. Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing, 2011. Print. The.
The theme of the research is to discover why there is such a vast educational gap between minority and Caucasian students. Many American are unaware that such an educational gap actually exists among today’s students. This article informs us of alarming statics, such as of African American students representing a majority of the special education population, despite only making up roughly 40% of the student population. It also breaks down key events that contributed to the poor education that minority children are currently receiving. For example, in the past, it was illegal to educate African Americans and when it became legal to blacks were treated as second class students. They were segregated from their white counter parts and given hand-me-down textbooks. This article also discusses others factors that contributed to the poor education of minority students such as moral principles, socio-political, and economic stat. Despite the amount of time that has past, today’s schools are similar to the past. Minority children are still in second-rate learning environments while white students enjoy the comforts of first class school buildings and textbooks. In summary, the theme of this article was to bring attention to the educational gap among African-American, Latino, Asian, and other non-white students.
According to Jerry Rosenfeld, American schooling is failing minority students in widespread proportions. In his ethnographic book “Shut Those Thick Lips!” (1971), African American students arrive at a Harlem school with deficient baseline skills, resulting in less than optimal academic outcomes. The predominantly white teaching staff accepts these deficiencies as a consequence of “cultural poverty,” whereby the minority culture itself is lacking and wanting for successful integration into the larger society. By excepting the culture as impoverished, teachers shift responsibility for such common minority failure directly onto the students.
“ It's Not the Culture of Poverty, It's the Poverty of Culture: The Problem with Teacher Education” by Ladson-Billings (2006). The Self-Esteem Problem is one of the problem in American culture. Usually, preservice teachers are having narrow foundation courses in psychological aspect. The author asked preservice teachers to choose one children from their field experiences that is hard to handle while one were choosing a African American. The author critized preservice teachers that they are choosing based on their race, gender and ethnic that was different from them. Those teachers tend to blam on student’s misbehavior instead of understand their socioeconomic problems. In addition, the problem of cultural capital in America is that dominant
Tyson, K. (2003). Notes from the back of the room: Problems and paradoxes in the schooling of young Black students. Sociology of Education, 76, 326-343.
When the majority of teachers in America are White, middle class women who only speak English in a country were students are starting to come from a multitude of backgrounds it is no wonder problems are arising. As more people from different cultures and religions immigrate to the United States the average classroom is losing the cultural uniformity it had in the past. Though the faces in classrooms are steadily changing many teachers have not been able to adjust as quickly to the ever growing diversity taking place. One would expect for teachers to still be able to teach students effectively whether they share a similar background or not, but in actuality cultural conflicts between teachers and students are only getting worse. Especially when
Michael Oher was from an all-black neighborhood located in the third poorest zip code in the country. By the time he was a sophomore, he’d been to 11 different schools, he couldn’t read or write, and he had a GPA of 0.6. In his first-grade year alone, he missed 41 days of school and ended up repeating both the first and the second grade; he didn’t even go to the third grade. Oher was one of the thousands of children that have been identified as having four or more of the at-risk factors mentioned by the National Center of Education and Statistics (NCES). According to the NCES, poverty and race are high on the list of things that negatively affect students’ ability to succeed at school. Other risk factors include changing schools multiple times and being held back from one or more grades. Oher’s biography, The Blind Side by Michael Lewis, proves how socioeconomic status impacts a child’s academic success because placed in perspective, education is not as important as the hardships of reality.
Diversity in the classrooms will give students access to experience other cultures and learn about one another. The different races effect how varied their backgrounds might be, and it will help the teacher engage a variety of ways to manage course material (Packard, 2017). According to Packard, it is up to the teacher to help spread the learning of diversity and use it to their advantage in their classroom. Throughout the years, diversity have grown in the classrooms, but the struggle of segregation continues.
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES, 2004) reported that Black students continue to trail White students with respect to educational access, achievement and attainment. Research on the effectiveness of teachers of Black students emphasizes that the teachers’ belief about the Black students’ potential greatly impacts their learning. Teachers tend to teach black students from a deficit perspective (King, 1994; Ladson-Billings, 1994; Mitchell, 1998). White teachers often aim at compensating for what they assume is missing from a Black student’s background (Foorman, Francis & Fletcher, 1998). The deficit model of instruction attempts to force students into the existing system of teaching and learning and doesn’t build on strengths of cultural characteristics or preferences in learning (Lewis, Hancock...
In addition, their age and gender are two other spectrums that are part of diversity. As the years go by, diversity becomes a controversial topic. The more students that are accepted into American schools from different countries, the more diverse and rich classrooms become. The advantages of diversity in classrooms promote positive image for the United States of America in terms of the status quo, and it promotes rich experiences for students and teachers. In terms of the status quo, diversity in classrooms challenges America’s status quo.
Racism and ethnicity continue to affect the sector of education in most parts of the world. More often, it influences adults and children’s experiences in education at all levels and in various ways. These include professional employment, academic performance, parental involvement, social interactions, assessment issues, and curriculum development. Certainly, the terms racism and ethnicity identify as problematic and arise socially. Therefore, many people fail to recognize that racism is a perception about the color of the skin and traditions of a particular group of people. Racism and ethnicity exist in quite blatant and subtle forms. As such, racism and ethnicity usually lead to negative consequences for the group that does not belong to the dominant culture. The contemporary racism originated from various avenues, one of it being the society norms and upbringing. Indeed, as children grow, they exclusively rely on their parents or guardians to learn new things. Moreover, part of the upbringing involves teaching the children things about the society and the
There has been a major change in the past thirty years regarding the amount of immigrants coming to the United States. The impact the immigrants have had on education and diversity is unbelievable. There are many factors which contribute to the element of diversity in education, such as each student 's culture, the different languages each student speaks, promoting gender equality amongst students, and working with students who have exceptionalities. As today 's educators, teachers must understand diversity from an omniscient perspective and the influence it has on students, making the process of getting an education as equal and pleasant as possible for all students.
The world is currently undergoing a cultural change, and we live in an increasingly diverse society. This change is not only affect the people in the community but also affect the way education is viewed. Teaching diversity in the classroom and focusing multicultural activities in the programs can help improve positive social behavior in children. There is no question that the education must be prepared to embrace the diversity and to teach an increasingly diverse population of young children.
The concepts included in providing a more diverse, multicultural education are requiring teachers to review their own issues and prejudices while expanding their knowledge of the many cultures that make up the classroom. These efforts help the educator recognize the various individual and cultural differences of each student, as well as gain an understanding on how these differences impact the learning process. The purpose of this paper is to reflect upon individual and cultural difference research and why diverse students struggle to succeed in school. Furthermore, I will share some instructional approaches I could implement in the classroom to accommodate diverse students. Finally, I will discuss the responsibility of educators in addressing the issue of how our o...