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In order to close the sociocultural, socioeconomic, and sociopolitical gaps between White female teachers and urban elementary students it is imperitive that teachers:BUILD POSITIVE AND INFORMED RELATIONSHIP BASED ON HIGH EXPECTATIONS
Key to Closing the Gap:Teachers mustPREPAREby becomingCulturally Literate
Understand Your Own Culture-Understand how White privilege blinds teachers to realities of urban life-Reflect on personal biases and assess personal motives and beliefs
How to Become Culturally Literate-Education programs must provide prolonged EXPERIENCE in urban schools-Teachers must be able to build and extend on the cultural knowledge that students bring to school
WHITE TEACHERS/DIVERSE CLASSROOMS by Julie Landsman and Chance W. Lewis
The Beginning of a Problem-Brown vs. Board of Education led to thousands of African-American teachers losing their jobs.-The lack of African-American teachers led to African-American students not seeing teaching as an available occupation
The Statistics-White women make up 65 to 76% of the teaching force in elementary schools-Students of Color represent 76% of the urban student population-These numbers for both teachers and students are likely to increase
Understand Student Culture-Understand the closeness of urban communities-Learn to understand students' parental, community, and financial situations
HOW DO WE DO THAT?
