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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 think that if she does not start thinking her legitimacy is going to be affected then it won't. If she starts to think that way, it will show in her teaching, and students might not begin to see her as an effective teacher, but I do think that she can use this opportunity to open herself up to experiences and situations that may be unfamiliar to her as well as expose her students to a teacher who is different from them and give her students the opportunity to learn from her. |
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