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A 3 page research paper that discusses teacher training in regards to diverse classrooms. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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and Soodak conducted a study that that randomly assigned 240 teachers with case studies that required a referral judgment on "either a student with academic difficulties or a student with
academic difficulties from a low socioeconomic status (SES) family" (Tucker, et al, 2005, p. 29). The teachers who had previously been evaluated as having low efficacy tended to considered placement
in general education classrooms "inappropriate for the underachieving students from lower SES families," while teachers with high efficacy did not make a differentiation (Tucker, et al, 2005, p. 29). This
finding, which is substantiated in additional studies, suggests that there is a cultural disconnect between teachers, who are primarily white, middle class and female, and African American students, particularly those
who are with low SES backgrounds who are male. It suggests, also, that changes in teacher training could have a positive impact on this problem. In many cases, white,
middle-class teachers gain their perspectives on black experience from the media and other sources that present culturally diverse students as uniformly "remedial or unreachable" (Milner, Tenor and Laughter, 2008). To
counter this cultural bias, Milner, Tenor and Laughter (2008) recommend that teacher education should include literature that enlightens student teachers to another perspective on these students that gives them a
deeper understanding of their capabilities and strengths, as well as the obstacles that they typically face in terms of background deficits. Love and Kruger indicate that African American children
respond well to environments that are culturally congruent with black culture, i.e., environments that are both "relational and personal" (Love and Kruger, 2005, p. 87). Research has determined that teachers
who are successful instructing African American children: 1. draw on African culture and history, 2. promote the location of self in a historical and cultural context, 3. help students
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