Cited: Dotts, Wayne. "Black and White Teacher Attitude Toward Disadvantaged and Poverty" Education 2001. Kansas State University, Manhattan Kansas 48-54…
Janice Heron is the teacher who has the honor of teaching a “golden mean” this year. Janice Heron refers to her class as the “golden mean” due to the fact that her students in this years class consisted of low, middle, and high socioeconomic statuses. This classroom was also made up of an equal percentage of hispanic, white, and black students (Silverman, Welty, & Lyon, 1996, p.125). Throughout her eighteen years of experience with teaching, Janice Heron has had the opportunity of working with students of all socioeconomic statuses and races prior to this year. However, this year, Janice Heron is having a particularly difficult time with four low-achieving students who are in her classroom. These four students include three hispanic boys and…
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Please complete the following exercises, remembering that you are in an academic setting and should remain unbiased, considerate, and professional when completing this worksheet.…
Prejudice is where an individual forms an opinion on someone else before becoming aware of the relevant factors involved. The word is often used to refer to usually unfair judgments towards people or a person because of gender, social class, age, disability or race/ethnicity. In this case, it refers to a positive or negative assessment of another person based on their social group. Gordon Allport (1954) defined prejudice as a "feeling, favorable or unfavorable, toward a person or thing, prior to, or not based on, actual experience". Social cognition aims to understand social psychological phenomena (such as stereotyping…
Anyon, Kozol, and Mantsios analyze the detriments of stereotype expectations and social class conditioning. According to the authors, every school caters toward a certain demographic and prepares students for occupations which keep them in a specific class. Jean Anyon groups these schools into four main types (working-class, middle-class, affluent professional, and executive elite). These classifications are meant to encompass the broad range of American children receiving education (Anyon 398). Likewise, Kozol discusses mainly working class schools in which a majority of the students are black. The schools Kozol outlines all provide their students with significant disadvantages in the educated world when compared to either the affluent professional or executive elite schools. In his essay, “Class in America”, Mantsios goes so far as to correlate family income with students SAT scores. He also outlines two men whose very polar lives resulted from an education that stemmed from their parents annual salary. These are all examples of how society expects certain stereotypes to remain in their societal box. According to these authors, society as a whole does not expect or even encourage social ladder climbers. Students are conditioned from a…
Studies indicate that economical disadvantage has a negative effect on school achievement. Schools residing in economically disadvantaged areas are less likely to achieve satisfactory results due to unfavorable circumstances. Students in such schools face difficulty fulfilling their needs. The lack of educational resources and the unfulfilled economical needs of students makes schools success challenging. (((( Recent research has shown that teachers in schools facing challenging circumstances have to work much harder and be more committed than their peers in more favorable socioeconomic circumstances. 1 ))))…
Traditional school institution displays their school-related racism through their own White teachers’ negative attitudes and behaviors, disproportionate placement of Black children in special education classes, and a disproportionate number of Black students in school punishments. In this case, traditional school teachers have "many racist stereotypes and attitudes that have been ingrained in them, in particular, the notions that Blacks lack intelligence or that Blacks are notoriously lazy and bent on criminality (Feagin, 2010). Also, special education classes are not reserved for children with a mental defect, but a structure of maintaining African American students to social and racial inequality. In fact, “they make up only 17% of the student…
The achievement gap is catching up and challenging the low income, African American and latino population which is an undoubtedly complicated problem. What is the educational achievement gap? The educational achievement gap refers to the imbalance of the academic performance of a group of students, specifically these groups of students are defined by their race, ethnicity, gender, family's economic and social position; that is based on income, education, and occupation. Subsequently, the educational achievement gap can be conveyed through grades, standardized-test scores, dropout rates, and college-completion rates. As a result, children that come from wealthy families tend to have a better performance in school than children that come from…
Rist, R. (1970). Student social class and teacher expectations: The self-fulfilling prophesy of ghetto education. Harvard Educational Review, 40, 411-451.…
In the world we live in today, there is a numerous amount of different types of stereotypes about people because of their skin color, heritage, and culture; the stereotype I have experienced constantly for the past sixteen years of my life has been that of attending a private Catholic School. I personally loved the atmosphere and the experience I had at my small school, and I would definitely do it all over again if I had the opportunity. However, I understand that each school is unique in all cases, whether it be its’ size, the kids, the teachers, the town it’s located in, and so on. As a student of the school, I have always been looked upon as either rich, spoiled, or in many cases, both. Although some of the things said about kids at private schools may be true, it is definitely not true for every student. Many of the kids that…
I stood outside the doors of the room the math competition was being held in. I was trying to mentally prepare myself for going inside but the thought of boys exceeding girls in math lingered on my mind. I had discovered a long time ago in America there were obvious sexist values and double standards. So to be the only girl on the math varsity team at my highschool is a bit of a challenge at times. I love math and solving problems as i would hum a tune to help me focus, but it was clear i was different and didn’t fit in. Being an outcast became the usual for me since it has been this way since i arrived to american schools which was when i was 9 years old. Math wasn’t something i planned on giving up on just because of my peers judgement but…
What can we actually do to produce better conversations about race? People need to learn the definition about what is racism and what is race. Also assuming who people are just because of their skin color or where they're from shouldn't be done. Another thing would be schools teaching kids more about this subject and giving them knowledge. Parents setting good examples talking to their children at a young age.…
The impact prejudice and discrimination has on a child could ultimately affect them socially and emotionally, it could affect how they learn and also how they develop relationships throughout their lives. The impact that affects them socially and emotionally could mean they begin to lack confidence and experience low self-esteem, they could become withdrawn so not to draw any unwanted attention on themselves, this then leads to them not wanting to participate in class discussions or group tasks, they will become unhappy all the time, they will feel they’re unable to express their feelings which will affect their learning in school and will hold them back educationally. Their relationships will suffer…
How does stereotyping affect school’s culture? It affects school culture by making them someone they are not. It makes the individual feel they have to pretend or act differently. Everyone stereotypes, it's not always a bad thing but when it does, it leaves long-lasting effects. It groups an individual to just one thing, a jock, singer, nerd. They are allowed to be a pro on and off the playing field without being judged.…