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Will Okun focus is on the influence of ethnicity in the classroom. How crucial is personal experience to knowledge and understanding. I feel that it helps to experience what you are teaching to a group of students. Teaches can offer more to the subject then just what’s in a textbook. Personal experience can help others to understand what they can’t understand in a text. It’s not crucial to have personal experience, but you can get more in-depth with whatever you as a teach with something you seen first hand. I believe racism still exist in America. Racism is something that makes no sense. Racism even reaches our classroom. Some teachers racially profile students just by how they dress or how they carry themselves. Some teaches feel more comfortable with teaching their own race. So, those teachers give more to the students they identify with them. They show more concern with students of their own race. I have experience this in high school. Most of my teachers were white and some went out of their way to help to make sure white students were ready for college or trade school and so on. When it came to me and my peers, we were not given as much help with college preparation or advice on the work force. However, I have had white teachers that were color blind and gave 100% to all their students regardless of race. White teachers can honestly and effectively teach African Americans students when some can eliminate race and focus on teaching our future leaders. And that goes both ways when it comes to white and black teachers. We are for the most part guilty of some kind of racism and we all need to fix this.

~ by Andrae on April 21, 2009.