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Case: White Intern in a Black inner-city school
My sister, Gina, who is a young White girl, started her student teaching in a predominantly Black school in inner-city America. She initially approached her job with optimism and purpose. However, she began to experience her first doubts with the presentation of an emotionally charged poetry reading at an all-school assembly. The poem painted a picture of the oppression of the African Americans by the European American majority. My sister was moved by the poem and accepted the historical truth of its message. At the same, she said she wondered what educational effects of the poem were and whether it would affect her legitimacy as a White teacher in a Black school. She talked to me about her experience. I am an experienced teacher, but I could not answer whether poems like that have any educational value, and whether or not my sister should worry about her legitimacy as a White teacher. I don't what she should do in this specific situation.
Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!)
I believe poems do have educational value to them. I also believe the color of your skin has nothing to go with being a legitimate teacher. I legitimate teach is a teacher that is effective in the classroom. A teacher should embrace all the cultures that are in the classroom. By treating their students with respect and fairness will make a teacher effective. She must show the students that even though African Americans have been oppressed in the past that their classroom is a safe environment where all students have the same opportunities. Overall, I think if she will do great. If a problem does arise I would hope the administration would back her up. |
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| Rated On: June 2, 2013 1:39 am |
| Rated By: Love Joy |
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| Comments: Good |
| Rated On: October 3, 2017 6:12 pm |
| Rated By: NuXepy |
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| Comments: This sounds good to me. By all means, the oppression of black Americans shouldn't be glossed over. At the end of the day though, black students aren't going to be benefited by having a white teacher second guessing themselves and their legitimacy to properly teach. Like students from any other race, they need a teacher who has faith in their ability to properly guide them. |
| Rated On: March 31, 2022 2:39 am |
| Rated By: uVeneH |
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