Double Entry Journal #5

What does the research say about the impact of negative teacher attitudes about students
ethnicity and language variations on student learning?

The research says that the impact of negative teacher attitudes about ethnicity and language variations effect student learning in ways that the student will not do well on assessments, in class, they will with drawl from learning because they are “not able to learn” based
on how the teacher reacts to them. If the teacher is negative it can affect the
entire classroom. Factors that can be loosely categorized as environment,
personal factors, and behavior interact and play off each other in a cyclical
way.


What aresome assessment pitfalls?
Some assessment pitfalls are that if a teacher is negative they will have a hard
time motivating his or her students to learn and want to learn. Therefore, the
class will have problems taking and or scoring well on assessments given in
class. But if a teacher has a positive attitude toward everything the students
will see that there are other ways to learn and that they can learn and succeed
then assessments will go well.


What three approaches can be used to transform students’ dialectal diversity into an asset (funds of knowledge) rather than a liability (cultural deficit).

One of the approaches that can be used to transform dialectal diversity is Critical pedagogy; it transforms the social order rather than teaching students to succeed in the current social order. The second approach is the critical awareness approach that combines the awareness and critical pedagogy approaches. The third approach is Bidialectal instruction is an approach supported by research.


How prepared do you feel to teach in a culturally diverse classroom?

Honestly I do feel pretty prepared to teach a diverse classroom. There are so many things that can be taught on diversity so that the students will not want to judge others and by me researching diversity it will help me not judge others either. I think that I will have a positive
attitude when it comes to teaching, there may be times when I am not sure about
a project and doubt whether or not the students will be able to understand and
accomplish some parts, but I am a teacher to help the students with what they
don’t know. And who knows maybe from the experiences of teaching a culturally
diverse classroom I will be able to build and make projects better because I
will be learning from the students too.


Citations:

Teacher Attitudes. (2009, Sept. 4). Retrieved from http://ecelinguisticdiversity.wikidot.com/