The Dreamkeepers "Education, like electricity, needs a conduit, a teacher, through which to transmit its power- i.e., the discovery and continuity of information, knowledge, wisdom, experience, and culture. Through the stories and experiences of eight successful teacher-transmitters, The DreamKeepers keeps hope alive for educating young African Americans."
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Literary Luminator: Chapter 4
The text says, "Culturally relevant teaching honors the student’s sense of humanity and dignity” (p. 82), this reminds me that teaching empowers students intellectually, socially, emotionally, and politically by utilizing cultural references (skills, attitudes and knowledge). It essentially means that teachers create a “bridge” between students’ home and school lives while meeting the curriculum requirements.
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That is the job of teachers... "to make it relevant" but many times that is the one, very important, thing that is lacking from the classroom setting and situations. Especially as teachers of African American students, whose home life might not be so great. How are you going to do that with low class, underprivileged students?
ReplyDeleteOne of my faults in students teaching was not telling the kids the reason or purpose of why we were doing something. My master teacher emphasized the importance of making the information important to the students. If they don’t see how art can apply to them, they won’t want to do the work. I finally able to make a connection with my students when I had them design CD covers for a project. Suddenly art made a lot more sense to them.
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