Culturally Responsive Pedagogy

This week's blog post was Alfie Kohn's  What to look for in a classroom. He is an educational theorist who advocates for progressive in education practices and a video which also brought up how things should be in the classroom, and teacher and student relationship. The chart brought up how students have choices and opportunities in a good classroom. With these advantages and extra care from teachers they can progress in their education rather than in a bad classroom where they don't have these resources. The chart can be depicted as students body languages and responses to classroom and teacher environments. It also states the differences between classroom signs and bad signs.The Chart gave bullet points between the two categories good classrooms signs and bad classroom signs. I think it’s important to see what a good classroom looks like, if not more important to see a bad classroom. How in the good classroom there was more of a community and the teacher made connections with students and their collaborating learning and student discussions  and had different tasks and in the bad classroom when students weren’t listening to the teacher they were working alone. In good classrooms students have meaningful curriculum and lessons connected to real world issues and students interest. Including various subjects rather than isolated learning. These classrooms are also filled with support and focus on social and emotional learning. Students benefit from positive encouragement and feedback rather than just being graded with worksheets and assessments. As educators they want to increase engagement and have students take away the lessons as much as possible. The video complemented this chart well, Pedaglogy is an education theory that focuses on culture references in all aspects of learning and as teachers it means all aspects of teaching. The video focused more on culturally responsive pedagogy and how it builds on other students' prior experiences and knowledge. Teachers being culture translators help students and create lesson plans and come up with specially comparisons and connections.The video highlights why it's important to create a more inclusive environment by valuing students  ethnic backgrounds.This will increase student engagement including cultural contexts and curriculums. It mentions how educators have to adapt to students from different cultures beliefs and have that be an asset just like Lisa Delpit stated. Teachers have to implement action in classrooms by incorporating culture based lessons. Rather than the student adapting to the school culture the school needs to step up and adapt to the students culture. The video also talks about how Teachers and Schools think of culture as students trait and associate it with race and ethnicity and mix it up with culture. This way of thinking would be problematic because different students need different things and have different ways of learning and in the classroom.

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Ideas and Cultural Lessons to incorporate into classrooms. 

Other Peoples Children/ Agruement

 Other People's Children 

Lisa Delpit

Argument 

    Lisa Delpit is a teacher who wrote 3 articles, 2 of them being published by Harvard on her teaching experience.In her argument she  speaks about how there needs to be more multiverse cultural teaching staff. Which I agree with, having more diverse teachers from different cultures and backgrounds will be good for students and encourage them to explore theirs. She opens up and speaks from her own experience having difficulty teaching a language in a mixed language classroom. She mentions instead of students seeing their mixed culture as a weakness to prevent them from learning on the same level but she has the mindset to use it as an asset,Implementing all Lisa learned from her college studies the mixed students made progress but still lacked significantly. The school deemed rap lyrics and jump rope chants not language skills and told students not to practice them. Once again Lisa saw the wrong in this teaching and focused on skills through creative thinking meaning even cultural background. She includes the teaching experience from three teachers. The first and two really spoke to me, with the first being an African American graduate student teaching in a special needs classroom in a primary black area. The white folks in the school district were always closed off when discussing black history and black education. The third teaching experience comes from a native american woman from alaska and all her ideas and comments about the teaching styles were dismissed by the school. Delpit mentions how the Public School Curriculum was created by White Middle Class philosophy were the powerful stays in power. She says that teachers need to encourage students to not adopt the dominant culture to change wrong with mixed education. No culture is wrong and shouldn’t be taught and can’t be denied. So yes there should be more mulit-verse cultural teaching staff at schools, and less with middle class white philosophy mindset and extend some curricums to further scopes.

More articles https://newlearningonline.com/new-learning/chapter-8/synthesis-more-recent-times/lisa-delpit-on-power-and-pedagogy

Blog Post / Sleeter

 Blog post 

The Academic and Social Value of Ethnic Studies 

by Christine E  Sleeter 

Quotes 

In this week's blog post we are going to be discussing and reflecting on the Academic and Social Value of Ethnic Studies by Christine E  Sleeter, this  excerpt and how she brings up the mismatch between teachers and students who are often from middle class backgrounds and minority lower income groups. She explains how this mismatch or misunderstandings and not making connections with students personally can lead to miscommunication in the classroom. This will only have a negative impact on these children on schooling and their education in the classroom. In fact  she references a white middle school classes have brought in a significant number of students of color ( african american and hispanic0 felt marginalized and upset that what they were learning in class was white american history and little to none about african american history outside the month that celebrates it.

"White adults generally do not recognize the extent to which traditional main- stream curricula marginalize perspectives of communities of color and teach students of color to distrust or not take school knowledge"seriously.(page 4,1st paragraph)  It said in the passage that Black history was rarely discussed in class and students felt like teachers avoided the discussions of race and racism out of fear Black students would react out of anger and get violent and feared these students. These teachers can’t even achknowkege their culture without having to be fearsome of how they would react and bring it up, how are they supposed to get the same education as the white students. Some teachers did try to make accommodations and create classes that go over different social groups but still didn;t meet the students to have a curriculum with their own cultural background and history. 

I chose to write about this because its crazy to me that teachers felt comfortable not discussing any black history in classrooms with black and other races within the classroom. I wonder what my classmates have to say about this as well. The teachers, also being afraid of the students' reactions, also says alot about how wrong this situation was and how the adjustment needed to be fixed with blacks and other races in American history classes. 

https://www.christinesleeter.org/biography

This is Christine E Sleeters Biography if you want to learn more about her and her research 

Separate But Unequal

 Group B 

Separate But Unequal 

Reflect 

This excerpt from Johnathan Kozol explores dispirates and equalities in the American education system, focusing on poorer bran areas often populated by Black and Hispanic Students. In his findings and research after conducted an intestine study over five years, visiting over sixty schools. His work proved the fact that most schools in america are predominantly attended by Black or Hispanic. Areas that have the least percent of white or other races are areas particularly in. economically disadvangted,underfunded urban areas. Kozol observed schools who have seen little to none improvement in terms of intregration and equality. The quality of education for Black and Hispanic and poorer students remained substsndardized. Additional Kozol received letters from students at these schools he visited questioning why they lacked so many basic addmentiies such as programs for schools like art and music and parks outside. He knew seeing this first hand of brains of the student and these kids weren't being nurtured for enrich opportunities which creates an inequality in education where so kids around america are being effected.

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