the dreamkeepers successful teaching for african american students

Highlights students’ strengths and gives them confidence to confront their weaknesses.

There is more than one way of knowing, and there is more than one side to a story.

Knowledge builds on what students already know.

Teacher takes student diversity and individual differences into account.Teacher is passionate about content and helps students develop necessary skills.Knowledge is continuously recreated, recycled and shared by teachers and students.We are family Teachers establish strong, caring relationships with all students Recognize that teachers perceptions of students have a significant impact on student learning View themselves as part of the community, and as giving back to that community Connectedness between themselves and their students Teaching is an art not a skill Antithesis of assimilation – emphasizes sharing responsibility.Empowers student by using cultural references to impart knowledge moves between two cultures but recognizes each as legitimate.Teachers who practice culturally relevant teaching use student culture in order to maintain it and to transcend the negative effects of the dominant culture.

Small group instruction and academically-related discourse.

Student-controlled classroom discourse.

Inclusion of culturally and linguistically diverse students.

Students should be able to hold their own in the classroom without forgetting their community.Ĭultural relevant teaching is… An approach that empowers students intellectually, socially, emotionally and politically by using cultural references to impact knowledge, skills and attitudes.

Aim is develop a “relevant black personality” that allows African American students to choose excellence in school yet still identify with African and African American culture.Culturally diverse students’ failure stems from societal conflict and a struggle for power specifically for African American students, there are special historical, societal, economic and political aspects to the role race plays in that struggle.…these attempts at colorblindness mask a ‘dysconscious racism,’ an “uncritical habit of mind that justifies inequity and exploitation by accepting the existing order of things as given.” This is not to suggest that these teachers are racist in the conventional sense.

The dreamkeepers: Successful teachers of African American children Gloria Ladson BillingsĮffective teaching of African American students Inner-city schools are de facto segregated schools Public schools have not sustained an effort to provide quality education for African American students African American students attending small African American schools perform better Separate schools? Culturally relevant teaching

The dreamkeepers successful teaching for african american students