Prompt 6 Iisa Delpit

In my first grade classroom there is so much diversity, sociocultural, and linguistic differences. This makes teaching in a whole harder. Because of all of these differences, each student learns and needs to be taught in deferent ways. This makes the job for the teacher more difficult, she needs to come up with a way to divide the class into groups and have a different plan for each group. In my classroom, the teacher does not do this. This puts them in groups based off who gets along. There is a lot of hostility in the classroom, so certain kids cannot be grouped together. I feel when she is teaching because of all the linguistic and socioculuter in the class certain children just stair off into space. I feel bad for those children because they are not learning the material they should be. Also certain children need to be giving attention, with this attention they will be motivated to do work. Other children need a struck discipline to make them do the work. Also there are children who can motivate themselves.

For example in my classroom there is a student who is label a bad kid. He has good intentions, but I can tell he is not getting the attention he needs at home. This is what makes him lash out at school. He is trying to get the attention here. Once I realized this, and I worked one on one with him, he tried harder. He cannot read or right, and speaks very poor English. He has improved a lot since I have been there, but is still really far behind.
Another example is that we have a black teacher, who teaches another first grade class. One of the girls in the classroom said my mother said " I wish you were in the other classroom, white teachers just do not understand where we come from" This little girl asked why she had a white teacher, when she is black. She said "she is mean to us, is that why". I explained to her how it does not matter if you are white or black, and that the teacher is not mean. That she gets frustrated when no one try's and does not like when she does not pay attention. I think after talking with her she had more respect for the teacher, and understood that your ethnicity had nothing to do with the way she taught.

Lisa Delpit says how people believe that white teachers re well intended, and love everyone. But they do to know how to teacher students of color. Lisa Delpit says "A black woman teacher in multicultural urban elementary school is talking about her experiences in discussions with her predominantly white fellow teachers about how they should organize reading instruction to best serve students of color." The white teachers talks about how the children don’t listen and the teacher tries to explain they are listening but they don’t hear you. The rules of power stat that children from middle class home tend to do better in school. The upper and middle class have the culture of power, and this is why they do better. Delpit talks about how children who come from different homes do not understand the rules. Sociocultural students learn different at home. Delpit was trying to say how we need to teach them our rules to our culture. Also to be understanding of their culture.
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