Toward A Conception of Culturally Responsive Classroom

Management
In class annotations
4/16/15
Discipline vs redirecting behavior
When
Triggers
Things that can be done differently
Suspending judgment before
Taking in the background of your students
Be open minded
Be empathetic
At the beginning of the article, they given the issue Nichole faced when
reprimanding students that looked like where having a fight. She got
criticized for bringing them to the office..
My personal issue is with the principal that criticized her. I would have done
the same thing. She was sampling following through with some of the
responsibility to keep children safe. What the principal was say is that its ok
to have students look like their having and argument, and due to their
culture teachers can interfere?
Yet educators are sometimes reluctant to talk about cultural characteristics
for fear of essentializing differences between groups (Mc- Laren, 1995) and
ignoring heterogeneity among group members.
This is something I will feel I will have an issue touvhing upon when I finally
become an english teacher. there will be time where we get to explore
different coulters. ACturally there are ways you can bring coulter into the
classroom without ignoring others.
Prospective teachers can also learn what questions to ask about students
family back- grounds, educational experiences, and cultural norms and
values.
Finding out this information I believe is acquired over time while getting to
know your students. However knowing this information will make it easier to
make content real and relatable to students.
Teachers also need to understand that the educational enterprise reflects
and often perpet- uates discriminatory practices of the larger soci- ety.
If we look at which children are being disciplined most often (namely, African
American boys), we can determine if there are patterns of racial or gender
profiling. We can also reflect on which behaviors are targeted as needing
disciplinary attention.
Interesting
So through profiling we can discipline students accordingly?