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Other People’s Children

Other People’s Children . Sections: Teacher’s Voices Cross-Cultural Confusion in Teacher Assessment The Politics of Teaching Literate Discourse. Teacher’s Voices: Rethinking Teacher Education for Diversity. Quick Notes

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Other People’s Children

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  1. Other People’s Children Sections: Teacher’s Voices Cross-Cultural Confusion in Teacher Assessment The Politics of Teaching Literate Discourse

  2. Teacher’s Voices: Rethinking Teacher Education for Diversity • Quick Notes • Black, Hispanic, Native American, and Asian students comprise 30% of school population. • Teachers of non-white groups is falling below 10%

  3. Teacher’s Voices: Rethinking Teacher Education for Diversity 1. Most of the Black and Native teachers interviewed believed accounts of their own experiences are not validated in teacher education programs or in their subsequent teaching lives.

  4. Teacher’s Voices: Rethinking Teacher Education for Diversity 2. The teachers interviewed frequently encountered negative and/or stereotypical cultural and racial attitudes directed toward themselves and toward ethnic minority children during their teacher education and subsequent teaching lives.

  5. Teacher’s Voices: Rethinking Teacher Education for Diversity • 3. The teachers interviewed report significant differences from their white colleagues in classroom pedagogy and discipline, saying that their teaching styles are most influenced by their own experiences as learners, their reflections about their students, and from the culture bearers in their community.

  6. Cross-cultural Confusions in Teacher Assessment • One of the most difficult tasks we face as human beings is trying to communicate across our individual differences, trying to make sure that what we say to someone is interpreted the way we intend.

  7. Cross-cultural Confusions in Teacher Assessment • What makes a good preacher? • How do you assess diverse teachers?

  8. The Politics of Teaching Literate Discourse • Literacy is much more than reading & writing • Rather literacy is part of a larger entity called a discourse (identity kit).

  9. The Politics of Teaching Literate Discourse • Primary discourse: learned in the home • Secondary discourses: attached to institutions

  10. The Politics of Teaching Literate Discourse • Overcoming Obstacles To Acquisition • Discourses can be taught in a classroom setting.

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