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Summary: Yet another book on the bad white teacher!
Review: The question is often why are there so few people of color in the teaching profession. I have thought a great deal about this lately and I have come to this conclusion. They are smart! Why, in this day and age would anyone want to teach. I teach at a second language school, where each day a new pile of paperwork arrives for me to fill out on my students (well, to the state now, just mere numbers and levels). I teach at a school, where on Mother's Day, I am writing the Spanish for my students because they are unable to read and write their language. I teach at a school where I often discuss aspects of latin american history I studied in university classes and studying abroad. However, after reading Lisa Delpit's book, and many like this one, I am left with the feeling that I couldn't possibly be an effective teacher because I am white. I understand the philosophies and theories expressed in Delprit's book. I was once there. We all have been in the land of theory. The problem is that many of our authors, university educators and state "educators" have never left the land of theory. If they did enter the land of practice, they quickly returned to the land of theory right quick. These are our role models. Yet, many of them have spent little time in the classroom. This teacher of 7 years, white and male (the root of all evil), is fading. I can not possibly be all things to all students. A parent, a counselor, an ear, a cheerleader, an advocate, a comfort, a teacher, these are not enough. Since I will always be who I am, I couldn't possibly be Latin-American, African-American, Asian-American, Arab-American or Native-American. Nor could I ever understand their culture for I am just an American. Boring and plain with nothing to offer to my diverse classroom.
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Summary: Yet another book on the bad white teacher!
Review: The question is often why are there so few people of color in the teaching profession. I have thought a great deal about this lately and I have come to this conclusion. They are smart! Why, in this day and age would anyone want to teach. I teach at a second language school, where each day a new pile of paperwork arrives for me to fill out on my students (well, to the state now, just mere numbers and levels). I teach at a school, where on Mother's Day, I am writing the Spanish for my students because they are unable to read and write their language. I teach at a school where I often discuss aspects of latin american history I studied in university classes and studying abroad. However, after reading Lisa Delpit's book, and many like this one, I am left with the feeling that I couldn't possibly be an effective teacher because I am white. I understand the philosophies and theories expressed in Delprit's book. I was once there. We all have been in the land of theory. The problem is that many of our authors, university educators and state "educators" have never left the land of theory. If they did enter the land of practice, they quickly returned to the land of theory right quick. These are our role models. Yet, many of them have spent little time in the classroom. This teacher of 7 years, white and male (the root of all evil), is fading. I can not possibly be all things to all students. A parent, a counselor, an ear, a cheerleader, an advocate, a comfort, a teacher, these are not enough. Since I will always be who I am, I couldn't possibly be Latin-American, African-American, Asian-American, Arab-American or Native-American. Nor could I ever understand their culture for I am just an American. Boring and plain with nothing to offer to my diverse classroom.
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Summary: This book is an excellent book for future teachers.
Review: This book is a real eye opener for all of the people who want to be teachers and also for those who are presently experiencing difficult situations when dealing with non Euopean students. I recommend this book to anyone dealing with children on an educational level. All children are entitled to have a good education reguardless of their race or orgin.
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Summary: This book is an excellent guide line for future teachers.
Review: This book is an excellent eye opener for all of the people who want to be teachers. It gave me a new prospective on how my teaching skills should differ to accommodate all of the students reguardless of race or orgin. Students should not be deprived of a "good education" because of their color or orgin. All students should have the right to equal education.
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Summary: This was an interesting and enlightening book.
Review: This book made me aware of some aspects of teaching that I would have otherwise been blind to. Although I found some of the viewpoints to be extreme, some of the techniques mentioned will be useful to me when I become a teacher. I agree that it is important to be knowledgeable about cultures other than your own in order to be effective in the class room.
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Summary: America: Home of the Many
Review: While reading this book, you can achieve a sense that Lisa has experienced an extreme view of how children are not properly taught in the classroom. The way that she wrote about students not learning technical measures in class made me more aware of the lack of writing skills that we have yet to teach our children. But this book also seemed to treasure a one-way view: and most of it was against European Americans. I don't think she focused entirely on the monumental outcome that every person, whether they be of European decent or not, has a different personality and thought process. But overall I felt that she hit hard on those who were ignorant to the fact that our school systems have major flaws in technical dynamics/skills.
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