Summary
- Culture is more than food, festivals, and music; it is a way of life.
- True education transmits skill, a commitment to your race, a love for learning, and an adoration for God.
- Black students see pictures of presidents and other imortant historical figures in school hallways and it negatively impacts their psyche.
- What the pupil wants to learn is as important, if not more important, than what the teacher wants to teach.
- A failing grade may indicate the degree of disconnection between students and curriculum rather than students skills.
- Facts that are understood last longer than those memorized.
A master teacher could integrate mathematics to African American males by using the following questions:- How many teams are in the NBA?
- How many players are on a team?
- What is the total number of players in the NBA?
- How many teams make the playoffs?
- How many teams are eliminated?
- How many players desire to make the NBA?
- How many players are unsuccessful?
- If a players signs a contract for $10 million and his agent receives 1 percent, how much does the agent receive?
- If taxes are 38 percent, how much of the agent's pay does the government receive?
- How many minutes are in one quarter of play?
- How many quarters in a game?
- What is the total number of minutes in a game?
- If a player takes 21 shots and makes 14, what is his shooting percentage?
Commentary
This chapter focused on how to make curriculum relevant to the African American student in poverty-level or working-class families. My graduate work focuses on curriculum and instruction, and the concept of making curriculum relevant is a recurring theme. One textbook mentioned that some schools and administrators are still preparing students based on a Wolly Mammoth principal. The author described the differences between the curriculum that humans were taught at the time of the wolly mamoth to the curriculum of today's student.
I feel that it is so important to make curriculum relevant to the students. I use student surveys and inventories to gain insight into my students' likes/dislikes. It is important for me to try to integrate those likes. In my opinion, this serves a dual-purpose. It helps students to be connected to the curriculum, which in-turn, will allow the students to retain the information easier. Additionally, I want my students to know that I care about them. By using things that they like, I am showing them that I care enough about them to learn their likes and integrate those likes into my teaching.
I feel that it is so important to make curriculum relevant to the students. I use student surveys and inventories to gain insight into my students' likes/dislikes. It is important for me to try to integrate those likes. In my opinion, this serves a dual-purpose. It helps students to be connected to the curriculum, which in-turn, will allow the students to retain the information easier. Additionally, I want my students to know that I care about them. By using things that they like, I am showing them that I care enough about them to learn their likes and integrate those likes into my teaching.
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