For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood...and the Rest of Y'all too. By: Christopher Emdin by Rowena Leszczynski

For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood...and the Rest of Y'all too. By: Christopher Emdin by Rowena Leszczynski https://padlet.com/RowenaCL/forwhitefolkswhoteach Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education en-us 2017-09-03 17:23:06 UTC 2024-06-02 16:15:43 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padletuploads.blob.core.windows.net/prod/216301743/75864904b68b5df70d1e7145e949b60d/school.png RowenaCL https://padlet.com/RowenaCL/forwhitefolkswhoteach/wish/184419199 2017-09-03 17:27:44 UTC https://padlet.com/RowenaCL/forwhitefolkswhoteach/wish/184419199 Adrienne Rich quoted "When someone with the authority of a teacher, say describes the world and you are not in it, there is a moment of psychic disequilibrium as if you look in the mirror and saw nothing." RowenaCL https://padlet.com/RowenaCL/forwhitefolkswhoteach/wish/184420269 When someone you respected and look up high to said something but does not seems to include you it feels like they are looking through you like the the girl without a face in the mirror. This makes them feel invisible.
Just like this boy looking at his reflection and he sees the classroom and every opportunity that he could have but not really seeing himself in it. This makes him feel that although the teacher is telling them how education is good for them, she failed to have them feel that it is for all of them, instead she made them feel that if you do not do it this way you're not going to make it. ]]> 2017-09-03 17:47:12 UTC https://padlet.com/RowenaCL/forwhitefolkswhoteach/wish/184420269 "To be in touch with the community, one has to enter into the physical places where the students live, and work to be invited into the emotion-laden spaces the youth inhabit." RowenaCL https://padlet.com/RowenaCL/forwhitefolkswhoteach/wish/184420325 An educator must try to understand and speak the same language as the student to get their attention or make them listen.
In order for us educator to understand the life they are living or the situation they are into we have to take our time to see, visit the life they have and try to associate ourselves to make the students feel that we really care and this might help us to connect with them. Sometimes our physical presence to a non school function gives the students the thought that we are normal too as they are, doing normal activities just like them]]> 2017-09-03 17:48:19 UTC https://padlet.com/RowenaCL/forwhitefolkswhoteach/wish/184420325 RowenaCL https://padlet.com/RowenaCL/forwhitefolkswhoteach/wish/184420380 ]]> 2017-09-03 17:49:05 UTC https://padlet.com/RowenaCL/forwhitefolkswhoteach/wish/184420380 "To be an educator in America today means that your students' test scores, GPAs, and graduation rates are the primary measures of your effectiveness." RowenaCL https://padlet.com/RowenaCL/forwhitefolkswhoteach/wish/184421567 Unfortunately, American education become more focus on students test result and basing the category of a good school through high graduation rates and GPA scores. The reality of this, teacher stressed out of what are expected from them because of how the American education system expect from the results of the testing. I do not think that the students knowledge of scores must only be based on the result of their standardize test score or their GPAs. Education system overlooked the different talents and potential of a student who cannot comply with standardize testing. Unfortunately this is one of the reason why educator lost their track of why they became a teacher in the first place. The educational system in America are being based on how your students performed or scored on testing and what's their GPA or graduation rates makes a school to be considered as a "good school, or teachers are good."]]> 2017-09-03 18:10:22 UTC https://padlet.com/RowenaCL/forwhitefolkswhoteach/wish/184421567 RowenaCL https://padlet.com/RowenaCL/forwhitefolkswhoteach/wish/184421781 ]]> 2017-09-03 18:14:32 UTC https://padlet.com/RowenaCL/forwhitefolkswhoteach/wish/184421781 "Reality pedagogy is an approach to teach and learning has a primary goal of meeting student on his or her own cultural and emotional turf. It focus on making the local experiences of the student visible and creating contexts where their is a role reversal of sorts that positions the student as the expert in his or her own teaching and learning, and the teacher as the learner." RowenaCL https://padlet.com/RowenaCL/forwhitefolkswhoteach/wish/184423452 In this scenario, the teacher gave the opportunity for the student to express the way she is understanding and by giving her that chance, she is not only learning but we as teacher are also learning how things look like in the eye of the students. Being open in a two way communication makes an educator understand how, why and what can be meet to make a good and effective classroom is. Interacting with students gives the students the feeling that they are important.]]> 2017-09-03 18:40:35 UTC https://padlet.com/RowenaCL/forwhitefolkswhoteach/wish/184423452 RowenaCL https://padlet.com/RowenaCL/forwhitefolkswhoteach/wish/184423477 ]]> 2017-09-03 18:41:03 UTC https://padlet.com/RowenaCL/forwhitefolkswhoteach/wish/184423477 RowenaCL https://padlet.com/RowenaCL/forwhitefolkswhoteach/wish/184464449 ]]> 2017-09-04 03:54:10 UTC https://padlet.com/RowenaCL/forwhitefolkswhoteach/wish/184464449 "The best classroom teachers develop ways to make the classroom feel like a family that has its own distinct rules, ways of speaking, and power dynamics." RowenaCL https://padlet.com/RowenaCL/forwhitefolkswhoteach/wish/184464559 A teacher that show compassion and care for their students makes their student wants to learn just like this picture represent. The teacher is showing the students and doing it with them makes the student feel that they are all in this together as a group, as a family. Students are eager to learn and explore when the teacher are available for them, when want to feel important, and this strive them to do go in school, like in this scenario. The students are willing to know things because they can approach teachers and the teachers listened to them. Students tend to participate more and interact in a warmth environment classroom. The students who felt that their classroom is just like their home which everyone's opinion is important. Like in this scenario, the students are all eager to participate in the activity because they know is everyone's game.]]> 2017-09-04 03:55:07 UTC https://padlet.com/RowenaCL/forwhitefolkswhoteach/wish/184464559 RowenaCL https://padlet.com/RowenaCL/forwhitefolkswhoteach/wish/184464579 ]]> 2017-09-04 03:55:28 UTC https://padlet.com/RowenaCL/forwhitefolkswhoteach/wish/184464579 RowenaCL https://padlet.com/RowenaCL/forwhitefolkswhoteach/wish/184955948 Once must be in the same shoe to understand what they are going through. You will not know and understand what the students are feeling or understanding them unless you let yourself experience and see their situation.]]> 2017-09-05 23:18:50 UTC https://padlet.com/RowenaCL/forwhitefolkswhoteach/wish/184955948 RowenaCL https://padlet.com/RowenaCL/forwhitefolkswhoteach/wish/184966107 ]]> 2017-09-06 00:29:41 UTC https://padlet.com/RowenaCL/forwhitefolkswhoteach/wish/184966107 RowenaCL https://padlet.com/RowenaCL/forwhitefolkswhoteach/wish/184967266 A classroom that is welcoming a student as a part of the family. That feeling of belonging will help the student to even self-correct themselves because they want the harmony in the class, and when a teacher create that kind of environment to their classroom, even student with behavior management issues begin to self-manage and may even facilitate classroom discussions.]]> 2017-09-06 00:37:12 UTC https://padlet.com/RowenaCL/forwhitefolkswhoteach/wish/184967266 RowenaCL https://padlet.com/RowenaCL/forwhitefolkswhoteach/wish/193244623 ]]> 2017-10-03 01:05:25 UTC https://padlet.com/RowenaCL/forwhitefolkswhoteach/wish/193244623 RowenaCL https://padlet.com/RowenaCL/forwhitefolkswhoteach/wish/193259710 When this thing is going on I remembered a statement in chapter 5, page 95, "student should be aware of, and in many cases instinctively follow, the traditional "workshop model" structure of the classrooom, which includes having a larger goal for the leasson reflected as the "aim" or "objective" for the lesson, having a "do now" or motivation" activity that serves as an entry point to the lesson to come, and hands-on examples and opportunities for students to reflect on the lesson at the end of the class period.
In this video, the student is co-teaching with the teacher, the teacher let the student teach the lesson while she was observing and the lesson that this student was teaching includes that larger goal of objective that will help student to comprehend what they are reading, her aim is to motivated her peer how to do it and give some ideas that they can start with, so I start recording.... ]]> 2017-10-03 03:20:28 UTC https://padlet.com/RowenaCL/forwhitefolkswhoteach/wish/193259710 RowenaCL https://padlet.com/RowenaCL/forwhitefolkswhoteach/wish/193262093 2017-10-03 03:42:39 UTC https://padlet.com/RowenaCL/forwhitefolkswhoteach/wish/193262093 RowenaCL https://padlet.com/RowenaCL/forwhitefolkswhoteach/wish/193263171 2017-10-03 03:53:31 UTC https://padlet.com/RowenaCL/forwhitefolkswhoteach/wish/193263171 In chapter 4 page 62, He stated in paragraph two, "despite their ethnic and racial similarities, their shared age and neighborhood, each of them came to the urban classroom with unique stories and histories. As a teacher, I had to find an approach to teach that would empower each of my students while addressing their collective needs". In this video Mr Moody went above and beyond to connect with his student in a way that he thinks he will get their attention and make them get into his lesson by cypher their Math problem. This is his way of getting the students engage in his classroom that he think he can correlate with them. RowenaCL https://padlet.com/RowenaCL/forwhitefolkswhoteach/wish/193263346 2017-10-03 03:55:04 UTC https://padlet.com/RowenaCL/forwhitefolkswhoteach/wish/193263346 In chapter 6 page 104 - 1055, "I am the class lab equipment distributor," If I didn't come to school, who was going to give out the lab equipment?" She has shown a what we call Cosmopolitanism and the way it plays out within the urban classrooms to a young person who is emotionally connected to the classroom as a cosmopolitan space will not only be willing to learn in that classroom but is committed to that class. RowenaCL https://padlet.com/RowenaCL/forwhitefolkswhoteach/wish/193263400 She fostered socioemotional connections in the classroom with the goal of building students' sense of responsibility as she is willing and ability to engage, the ideology that all human beings belong to a single community, based on a shared morality. In this case she have that sense of responsibility to make sure that she do her duty for the good of the class, she felt that if she is not going to do her duty she is letting her peers down.]]> 2017-10-03 03:55:40 UTC https://padlet.com/RowenaCL/forwhitefolkswhoteach/wish/193263400 RowenaCL https://padlet.com/RowenaCL/forwhitefolkswhoteach/wish/193265291 2017-10-03 04:12:51 UTC https://padlet.com/RowenaCL/forwhitefolkswhoteach/wish/193265291 To develop and foster a cosmopolitan ethos in the classroom, one of the first thing a teacher must do is to identify the possible roles that everyone who comes into the classroom can take on to help it function properly RowenaCL https://padlet.com/RowenaCL/forwhitefolkswhoteach/wish/193265365 This was not really the ideal classroom video but in this video, the teacher recognize the different talent that the students have so to make his classroom function well he started giving the student assignment on what they are going to do in the class.
Of course in a real classroom learning when you tied roles in the classroom you will consider the social, emotional and physical function of the classroom when giving roles. ]]> 2017-10-03 04:13:32 UTC https://padlet.com/RowenaCL/forwhitefolkswhoteach/wish/193265365 RowenaCL https://padlet.com/RowenaCL/forwhitefolkswhoteach/wish/193696726 2017-10-04 03:12:18 UTC https://padlet.com/RowenaCL/forwhitefolkswhoteach/wish/193696726 Cosmopolitanism calls for the recovery of humaneness in relationship amongst and within the groups. The practices outlined about may appear insignificant to teaching and learning when studied on their own. However, when implemented in the classroom, they can have a dramatic impact on the relationships between the students and the teacher and between the class and the content. RowenaCL https://padlet.com/RowenaCL/forwhitefolkswhoteach/wish/193696756 This paragraph expresses that if cosmopolitanism exists in your classroom every student will feel that they belong and will hold themselves also responsible for each other. The idea of you as a student whatever you are dealing with outside the classroom, you know that somehow you belong in there, in that classroom, it gives you the respect and sense of connection of not being neglect.]]> 2017-10-04 03:12:39 UTC https://padlet.com/RowenaCL/forwhitefolkswhoteach/wish/193696756 "Social Capital and Social Network" RowenaCL https://padlet.com/RowenaCL/forwhitefolkswhoteach/wish/199421536 Sociologists describe this shared cultural knowledge as social capital. In this video as it was refer how the ex-president Barack Obama used this gesture to connect with other culture by gesturing the dust on the shoulder gesture implying that I got your back or I am one of you and we win this thing. It is their way of communication without using verbal words, this type of communication connects other people by knowing the culture or for those who knows the meaning of the gesture .]]> 2017-10-23 01:34:24 UTC https://padlet.com/RowenaCL/forwhitefolkswhoteach/wish/199421536 "I was learning about the student and I was enjoying myself so much that I did not realize that I am still putting the same amount time into new activities as I was into formally planning for my class". RowenaCL https://padlet.com/RowenaCL/forwhitefolkswhoteach/wish/200350535 "Like any other job you have to enjoy what you are doing so you are not there only for the paycheck but for the work itself." As a teacher you always have to put in your mind and in your heart the main reason why do you want to be a teacher, with all the challenges that you will encounter being a teacher it is very important to be open for new ideas and alternative to make classroom management effective. Being ready or over prepared for lessons and lesson planning is one thing but knowing how to have your student engage to what you are teaching them is another. The misbehavior is going to be minimize when you let your student into your life as well as you letting them into yours.]]> 2017-10-25 12:03:01 UTC https://padlet.com/RowenaCL/forwhitefolkswhoteach/wish/200350535 RowenaCL https://padlet.com/RowenaCL/forwhitefolkswhoteach/wish/200591909 2017-10-25 19:27:43 UTC https://padlet.com/RowenaCL/forwhitefolkswhoteach/wish/200591909 RowenaCL https://padlet.com/RowenaCL/forwhitefolkswhoteach/wish/200598855 2017-10-25 19:44:04 UTC https://padlet.com/RowenaCL/forwhitefolkswhoteach/wish/200598855 RowenaCL https://padlet.com/RowenaCL/forwhitefolkswhoteach/wish/200616380 2017-10-25 20:43:07 UTC https://padlet.com/RowenaCL/forwhitefolkswhoteach/wish/200616380 "Bringing the concept of the hip-hop battle to the classroom accomplishes goal in Learning." RowenaCL https://padlet.com/RowenaCL/forwhitefolkswhoteach/wish/200616503 In this video the teacher is having a rap battle with the student to prove each other point on leaning and opinion about school and classes. The student that is battling the teacher is trying to persuade that education is not as important that teacher just wanted power and control, the teacher is battled this student to show him that it is not the way he think it is that's why he needs to stay in school for he might understand it more. A way how the teacher try to reach out the student is trying to speak on his own language]]> 2017-10-25 20:43:54 UTC https://padlet.com/RowenaCL/forwhitefolkswhoteach/wish/200616503 RowenaCL https://padlet.com/RowenaCL/forwhitefolkswhoteach/wish/202256954 2017-10-31 17:35:14 UTC https://padlet.com/RowenaCL/forwhitefolkswhoteach/wish/202256954 "Given the cultural divides between the neoindigenous and traditional schools, schooling becomes a stressor that the neoindigeneous must endure even though it inflicts temendous symbolic violence on them". Symbolic violence refers to "the violence which is exercised upon a social agent, but a socio-emotional one where one's spirit is broken as a result of a constant pressure to adhere to a structure that runs counter to one's worldview". RowenaCL https://padlet.com/RowenaCL/forwhitefolkswhoteach/wish/202305991 Like what is shown in the video. In Brazil the battle or fight called Capoeira. This complex moves that is a type of competition that is a mix of kicking spins and rota. This competition is showing your opponent to see who straighten the spirit, physical and mental self. The two opponent looks like they are going to hurt each other but it's actually showing off each other and a some judges or the crowd decide who is the winner. Although it is a competition but each opponent show respect while doing the fight and at the end who ever wins they both shake hand to show respect for each other.]]> 2017-10-31 19:22:07 UTC https://padlet.com/RowenaCL/forwhitefolkswhoteach/wish/202305991 RowenaCL https://padlet.com/RowenaCL/forwhitefolkswhoteach/wish/209733656 2017-11-23 15:12:01 UTC https://padlet.com/RowenaCL/forwhitefolkswhoteach/wish/209733656 "It is a practice that has taken roots in field like languages, sociology and cultural anthropology, and that focuses on where and how a speaker alternates between two or more languages or dialects in the context of a conversation or interaction". RowenaCL https://padlet.com/RowenaCL/forwhitefolkswhoteach/wish/209733718 As a teacher we have to practice code switching to be able to connect with the students. It is a practice to be effective to the needs of the students, to be understand them and for them to listen to the teachers.]]> 2017-11-23 15:12:22 UTC https://padlet.com/RowenaCL/forwhitefolkswhoteach/wish/209733718 RowenaCL https://padlet.com/RowenaCL/forwhitefolkswhoteach/wish/209769714 2017-11-23 18:28:11 UTC https://padlet.com/RowenaCL/forwhitefolkswhoteach/wish/209769714 Neoindigenous Language RowenaCL https://padlet.com/RowenaCL/forwhitefolkswhoteach/wish/209780516 This is an example of code switching language of the neoindigenous. The language spoken is the urban speaking which mostly use in urban neighborhood. in some cases, as educator we have to learn and understand this language and code switching to this language in order to communicate and understand the urban community. This is their culture which educators must understand and accept to connect with the urban students as pedagogical strategy.]]> 2017-11-23 19:39:05 UTC https://padlet.com/RowenaCL/forwhitefolkswhoteach/wish/209780516 "Prep School" RowenaCL https://padlet.com/RowenaCL/forwhitefolkswhoteach/wish/209781188 The chief goal is to replica the prep school model of the elite and culturally monolithic affluent white prep schools. Where in many of these urban schools, students are taught to dress, talk, act, and behave in ways that are opposite to their neoindigenous identities.
In which their neoindigenous identities are encourage to be separated if they want to get out of the lives being in the hood.]]> 2017-11-23 19:44:09 UTC https://padlet.com/RowenaCL/forwhitefolkswhoteach/wish/209781188 RowenaCL https://padlet.com/RowenaCL/forwhitefolkswhoteach/wish/209806396 2017-11-24 00:07:59 UTC https://padlet.com/RowenaCL/forwhitefolkswhoteach/wish/209806396 "Clean" RowenaCL https://padlet.com/RowenaCL/forwhitefolkswhoteach/wish/209807512 Cleaning the neoindigenous is not a way to connect, because there is nothing to clean up. Embracing ones culture is a way not a bad way, as an educator we have to respect and understand those culture in order to have a successful and manage our classroom. Giving them that sense of ownership, or belonging gives them that feeling that they belong in that place and will open up to what is going to be serve to them. ]]> 2017-11-24 00:26:02 UTC https://padlet.com/RowenaCL/forwhitefolkswhoteach/wish/209807512 RowenaCL https://padlet.com/RowenaCL/forwhitefolkswhoteach/wish/209808354 In this movie, Will Ferrell hired someone from the hood to help him act the way the hood are so he can survive the prison time. This code shifting is also a survival skill that will help him to understand and blend with others in order for him to make it through his sentence.
As an educator, if we want to survive and make it through keeping our student we must learn when to switch and understand the code shift when it is necessary.]]> 2017-11-24 00:38:39 UTC https://padlet.com/RowenaCL/forwhitefolkswhoteach/wish/209808354