After reading Other People’s Children from Lisa Delpit I connected it a lot with Alan Johnson’s writing “Privileged Power and Difference”. There was a quote from each article that I found connected in a strong way. “How can such complete communication blocks exist when both parties truly believe they have the same aims” was a quote that I found In Lisa Delpit’s writing on page 23. This quote stood out to me because it got me thinking about how all teachers have the goal to help students learn but how they can all do so in different ways. In this section before this quote is mentioned, Delpit is talking about how professors, teachers or other school staff of color have felt that they have been left out of dialogue about how best to educate students of color. This quote makes me think about how if teachers all share the goal of wanting students to learn no matter what their race is then why are our teachers of different races being ignored in these conversations. I believe that no matter someone's race, when it comes to the goal of working together to help create a positive outcome then they should be able to allow each other to open up and listen to each other's ideas and suggestions. As a future teacher I would want to hear others' experiences as a teacher and of teaching all sorts of kids so that way I can make sure that I am doing my best in order for my kids to learn. The connection that I made to Alan Johnson was when in his writing he said “For all our potential, you’d think we could manage to get along with one another”. These quotes I found connected with each other because both quotes focus on how we can share similar thinking and greatness as humans but we stand in our own way from allowing this greatness to show. We may have similar thoughts and goals but due to our differences we allow ourselves to judge others.
Overall If people could be more open to listening to each other and their experiences along with being able to accept each other’s differences then the world could be more positive.
I really like how you connected the two readings we did to each other! You choose great quotes to support your writing. I also love how you talked about yourself and connected being a future teacher to what we read.
ReplyDeleteNice job connecting the two articles. Also good use of quotes when connecting the two!
ReplyDeleteI really like how you brought your opinion in and connected your preferred teaching style and aspects directly to the material we read. I wish I had also finished my blog with a great overall moral to end with. Delpit describes how educators and administrators of all ethnicities should be included in how to include students, which should be a no brainer, but your final statement is a good testament to what should change.
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