As you are all already aware, my group’s mission is to
explore the role of race and ethnicity in the classroom: how does a person’s racial and cultural
background affect his/her learning (specifically writing- which in my opinion
goes hand-in-hand with reading also), his/her relationship with others, his/her
overall educational and personal development?
As a teacher, I have realized over the years that this exploration is
crucial; anything and everything a child learns is directly defined in terms of
that child’s personal identity.
My specific role in the overall group presentation will be
to bring this in-class experience to the work that my group mates and I do and
the information/ideas, etc. that we present.
We have decided to approach our exploration in a number of different ways-
just one facet of our plan is to conduct interviews with students, parents,
teachers, and administrators. I think I
know my kids. It will be very
interesting to hear them open up truthfully (we hope haha) about their
relationships with the written word. I’m
also going to be working on creating a series of lesson plans about race and
ethnicity , facilitating students’ journey toward self- discovery and
actualization. These will be lessons that
can be actually brought to life in the high school classroom and can be taught
in conjunction with an existing curriculum on their own as a mini-unit (most
likely in a language arts or social studies class). This “teachers’ toolbox” will be my
contribution to our digital omnibus.
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