1. Ladson-Billings, Kliewer, and Danforth believe that teachers have a special responsibility to enable students to succeed. Discuss each of the authors' philosophies or outlooks. What are the key elements of each author's favored approach to teaching and creating a positive classroom culture? What...
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EDU 203 Midterm question and answer
2023
responsibility to enable students to succeed. Discuss each of the authors' philosophies
or outlooks. What are the key elements of each author's favored approach to teaching
and creating a positive classroom culture? What are the implications of this for how
teachers build a positive classroom community? Why is this outlook important? (Please
answer all these questions) -answerLadson-Billings
-African American students need to have a strong identity in their own cultures and a
sense of belonging
-Cultural relevancy
Validate cultures and student's backgrounds which will then enable them to learn inside
the classroom.
-Build a community, refer to students as family members, and establish the
responsibility they have to themselves and their fellow students to achieve and grow.
Without this outlook students will not have to question their belonging or have to
compromise their identity to learn.
Learning from each other
Kliewer
-Someone's worth is still being determined by the continuum of contribution to society.
-People with Down Syndrome should not be seen as a burden to society simply
because they cannot contribute to society in a way that is economical or in traditional
ways.
-We need human reciprocity and we cannot have in isolation, we need to form
meaningful relationships with others.
-The ultimate question is what validates as community membership and how do we
determine who gets access? Social presence has nothing to do with IQ
Danforth
-Many teachers are simply unprepared to teach students with disabilities. Teachers
must educate themselves in order to educate others otherwise they only have
generalizations and misunderstandings to go off of
Inclusive education > general education
-All students will benefit from being exposed to diversity, community, etc.
deeply analyze our own personal beliefs in order to be a good inclusive teacher
-The idea of inclusive learning and teaching is to close the gap between personal beliefs
and having optimistically pursuing enduring values of justice, equality and dignity for all
persons not just those who are able.
, 2. Using specific examples from Ladson-Billings' book The Dream Keepers, explain the
meaning of "culturally relevant" teaching. In your response, you must connect to at least
two other readings from this list: Delpit, Kimmel, Christensen. Lastly, describe at least
three specific teaching practices that reflect a culturally relevant perspective.
What is culturally relevant teaching? -answerdeveloping cultural competence, and
cultivating sociopolitical awareness a prerequisite to being able to teach students
academics and mainstream society.
connection between teacher and students
connects between their in school lives and their out of school experiences. It is
capitalizing on their cultural and social background to facilitate learning.
Bringing students' culture/ background into the classroom
Connection to Christensen: using cartoons her students grew up watching to talk about
learn about gender stereotypes of race, class and gender and how we are socialized to
believe women need men to save them and people of color will never be the main
character. Society has a bias of people based off of media; blacks are perceived as evil
and not equal to whites
Connection to Delpit: talks about how many African American students come to school
with a different dialect of English that's different from the "regents" or Standard English,
ebonics. Correcting this in a way that says how they speak is wrong or bad is an attack
against their family and culture, rather use it to facilitate learning in the classroom
through making dictionaries, translating rap lyrics or role playing how to talk during an
interview.
3. Identify a group that you feel is disempowered through language. Give specific
examples of toxic language that are used against or about this group as a whole or
individuals identified with the group. Provide some specific strategies for the following:
(1) for individuals who identify with this group might use to resist this
disempowering/toxic language and (2) for you or anyone else to use to support (be an
ally to) the person who is the object of the disempowering/toxic language. Finally, what
are strategies of language usage that a teacher can use to create an inclusive
atmosphere in the classroom (i.e., a classroom where language is used to empower
rather than to disempower)? Be specific and explicit in the strategies you discuss and,
most importantly, refer to at least two readings from the course (your choice). -
answerGroup of people: People with disabilities can be disempowered by language
(i.e., the use of the word "retarded," "special needs student," and/or "disabled kid").
Toxic language- not using person first language; using language that excludes or
"others" ("Ms. J's kids, you can leave now..."; labeling and name calling ("she has
special needs" or "he's an inclusion kid"); abusive language ("this class is so stupid")
How to Resist- It's important to correct others when they are not using person first
language and educate people on why you should use person first language, and how it
can make people feel when they don't. Don't refer to students as their diagnosis, refer to
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