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- Title: Discipline: Responding to Socioeconomic and Racial Differences.
- Author : Childhood Education
- Release Date : January 22, 2005
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 196 KB
Description
Changing school demographics, coupled with a teaching force that is predominantly white and female, has created a growing discrepancy between teachers and the students they teach. Many children and children in poverty do not display the behaviors or experience the type or degree of success in school as white or middle-class students do. Consequently, they create challenges for the teacher. They may pose disciplinary problems, and so teachers may underteach these students as they focus on addressing the behavior. In what follows, I will share my experiences teaching in a 4th-grade class of predominantly African American children for a year. After residing in the midwestern United States for 12 years, I decided to return to the state where I received my teacher preparation to pursue a teaching opportunity in the public school system during a year-long sabbatical from a university faculty position. The sabbatical provided me with the opportunity to work with predominantly African American, lower socioeconomic students in a magnet school program--a school within a school program founded on the philosophy of educator Marva Collins.