Addressing Diversity in Classroom Practice
Addressing diversity and providing culturally …show more content…
Moreover, graduating from a teacher preparation program is no longer viewed as the end of teacher’s training, but that teacher preparation continues into the profession and that educators are continuous learners themselves (Cochran, 2011). It has been implicated that reflective practices in methodology and practicum courses can impact pre-service teachers at a critical time and potential yield reflection that is conducive with long term professional growth (Yesilbursa, 2011). A last interesting note on reflection found in the literature, was its ability to help pre-service teacher candidates evaluate inherent bias or negative attitudes they might hold (Lesley, 2011) Working with pre-service reading teachers, Lesley (2011) found the mastery model of literacy education inhibited many content literacy educators and arose biases within them. The implication of this to this study, is that reflective practice, such as the discourse model that Lesley discusses, allows problems in teacher preparation to be brought to light through which educator preparation programs can begin a process of evaluating and addressing them with their