Chapter 1 (pg 9-10)
What is the title of this chapter?
What is the sub-title for this chapter?
An Argument for Meeting Our Students Where They Are.
When topics of study are authentic, the degree of relevance to students does what?
Increase, it becomes immediately apparent.
How did the teacher at the beginning of this chapter (page 9) act when asked a question regarding race?
The teacher acted racist.
The teacher started talking about stereotypes.
The teacher was teaching towards the whites in the class, not the minorities.
Name one of the three ways Ladson-Billings Dreamkeeper teachers had in common.
They all had high academic expectations of their students.
They all offered students regular opportunities to sustain themselves culturally, that is, students were validated in the classroom as cultural individuals.
They all sought to develop their students' sociopolitical consciousness so that students could critically analyze the factors that supported social inequalities.
Teachers who keep their eyes and ears open for clues about their students' lives outside of school are more likely to what?
Identify specific and valuable teaching moments.
In Gloria Ladson-Billings book, what was the approach that turned decades of educational research on its head?
Assets-based approach.
In the field of Anthropology what is the definition of "culture"?
A way to think about the set of rules that guide the habits, behaviors, and norms of a given group of people.
In this chapter, how did the physics/chemistry teacher include culture in the classroom?
By counting in different languages.
What was the theory that was developed to explain the successful teaching that Gloria Ladson-Billings had witnessed?
Culturally Relevant Pedagogy.
From a psychological perspective, what does "culture" mean?
The set of perceptual filters that help people interpret the world through an existing framework of understanding.
When we choose ideas that help develop students' sociopolitical consciousness, we give them what opportunity?
To critically examine and address issues of justice, fairness, and power.
The quality of a model is judged by how well it explains the (blank), makes (blank), and fits other accepted (blank) about the way the world works.
Data, Predictions, Explanations.
What were some of the problems with the male teachers examples?
He was talking about mature adult videogames to 6th graders.
The videogames in his examples were expensive and he taught in a low-income area.
His examples led to confusion instead of scaffolding learning.
How does Teresa see the status quo of science teaching?
Lazy- actively harmful to students of color and white students alike because of the ways in which knowledge is passed along uncritically.