Julie Landsman gives off a unique and inspiring aspect in teaching a complex culture in her book, "A White Teacher Talks about Race." I have learned the many different qualities and responsibilities teachers need to hold in order to understand and be able to relate with their students. What I respected the most is how Julie strived to reach her students in such a subtle way. The education system isn't going to change within a matter of months or years it will take decades to keep the progression of change to take effect. It is the teacher's responsibility over those years to keep the students best interest in mind. Julie made a great point stating that the laws will have to soften and our minds open. Teacher need to look at the long run and see that everything they do will mold the future even though they do not see the results now. The children are our future and as a teacher it is essential to benefit their education regardless of location, culture or race. I"m tired of society placing labels on groups of people and stereotyping city schools to be underachievers. The right knowledge, the right attitude and the right mind frame held by the teachers gives students endless opportunities to achieve. Our system needs to literally pound the message to the school boards that "the skies the limit" with the right guidance for our students. It was my teachers that made me realize that I wanted to become a teacher and make a difference. They motivated me enough to try and weed them out and not have anymore like them around. Julie is so inspiring because she looks to the positive and sees her students as individuals never placing a limit on their abilities. .
As a teacher you have to have hope, the strength to help the students and never give up on them. Each student needs to have support and know that you believe in them and will help them achieve their goals. If they don't have any goals then it is your responsibility to help those students dig within themselves to find the answer.
The poem talks about a little girl leaving the inner city to go to camp. ... In the discussion Holmes talks about being the "' little colored girl ' playing in the park wit all the with kids." she also talks about being alone with a majority of whites. ... The new school was mostly white. ... The teachers in the school also had some questions or views about our color. ... Was it okay to ask her her race or nationality? ...
The teacher, however, told him that he should be Chinese, and Canadian was not a racial identity, which made him confused. ... In Diamond Grill, Fred talks about his family history at the time near the first World War, a period in which Chinese people's position was at the bottom of the society. ... He was faking because he was not confident about his race, and he wanted to narrow the difference between the white and himself and wanted to be one of them. ... At the page 57 in the Diamond Grill, it talks about Fred's grandma Florence met his grandpa Jim in Jim's restaurant as a ...
Other topics Loewen wrote about that textbooks tend to leave out is race, nationalism and patriotism. ... One would agree that when we read history from out of textbooks we are basically reading the history of white Americans when it should be the history every race as a whole since we are of course the UNITED states of America. The emphasis of white history alienates all minority students according to James Loewen. ... With that being said textbook authors have strengthened selective stereotypes about African Americans by rewriting what they believe is history and making it more favorable to ...
Most teachers avoid talking about anything hat has to do with race or sex because they worry about being politically in correct. The story "Pedagogy and Political Commitment: A Comment" by bell hooks talks about the struggle that she went through trying to teach students about racism, sexism, and domination. ... Educated blacks felt better than the uneducated blacks, and it seemed the more they learned from the white man, the they would develop the ways of white-life. White-life being the way whites are brought up to live their lives. ... Hooks talks about the her transition between a scho...
Most teachers avoid talking about anything hat has to do with race or sex because they worry about being politically in correct. The story "Pedagogy and Political Commitment: A Comment" by bell hooks talks about the struggle that she went through trying to teach students about racism, sexism, and domination. ... Educated blacks felt better than the uneducated blacks, and it seemed the more they learned from the white man, the they would develop the ways of white-life. White-life being the way whites are brought up to live their lives. ... Hooks talks about the her transition between a scho...
One of the most famous cases that talks about separate equality is the Supreme Court case Plessy vs. ... The black people were right to question the equality of their facilities compared to the whites, because they were in fact unequal to a large extent.Segregating states spent 5 million dollars on black colleges, while they spent 86 million dollars on white schools, white school teachers got paid 30 percent more than black school teachers, and whites had 36 engineering schools while blacks had none?. Those are just a few examples from theState of Education Black and White? ... The court state...
A problem with gender and racial discrimination is that it is commonly used as an excuse or reason for, let's say, not getting into the school you want to go to or getting bad grades because your teacher doesn't like you. ... While Adrienne Rich writes mainly about gender discrimination, bell hooks talks about how her life has changed since she attended a multi-racial university. She talks about how her parents were not "delighted that [she] had been accepted" and they "utterly opposed [her] going so far from home" (95). ... Her parents, I believe, are used to the common idea ...
He was a brilliant student who excelled in his studies and encouraged by his teachers to achieve even more. ... There was limited interaction between the whites and blacks as each race had their own facilities different and in much lower standards to the opposite race. ... He talks of the social segregation in the community that has degraded the latter as the minority race with a 'veil' or line being drawn against them. ... His poem 'O Black and Unknown Bards' is about the recognition of the Black Race fostered by their spiritual heads who believed that it was their right...
