The webinar, I attended, was talking about Disrupting Poverty: Five powerful classroom practice. The main objective is to equip the teacher with techniques to follow inside the classroom when it comes to deal with students who are struggling due to poverty. Thus a teacher could build a very successful career by knowing how to approach such situations that may hinder the progress of the session. That’s why the teacher should be ready to develop the certain way of communication that is aligned with adequate teaching techniques. The presenter discussed five powerful classroom culture practices which can be summarized as follows:
1- Caring relationship and advocacy
2- High expectations and support
3- Commitment to equity
4- Professional accountability for learning
5- The courage and the will to take action.
The speaker highlighted, based on research, that caring relationship increases student’s effort, engagement, promotes resiliency and improves academic achievement. In high expectation, the teacher must push students’ ability to the higher level. Some of the characteristics of teacher that hold high expectation are to teach content and to use tasks with high cognitive demands, ask frequently high-level questions, provide informative feedback on performance,...etc. On the contrary, teachers with low expectation will put down students’ ability. Consequently, they do not have the courage to give an additional try. Such a discourage in students would increase more when teachers provide less wait-time after posing the question, praise less for success. The third practice is about commitment to equity. At this point, the presenter emphasized the idea with a story. The story centered on a teacher who continuously thinks about how to help students who live in poverty. The teacher made a computer available for any student which imposed on the teacher to guide the students how to build their responsibility. After this, the presenter moved to discuss the fourth technique in the classroom culture practice which is professional accountability.
Every member of the class is responsible to demonstrate accomplishment of the learning. In addition, it important to encourage poverty students to take responsibility for productively participating. As a result, a teacher should focus on what they can control, take risks and consider his/herself on the team as students. Consequently, the teacher should not blame those poverty students and instead contribute to their self-efficacy which is correlated to improved student achievement, less negativity, less criticism of students... Finally, the courage and the will to take action is what defines a real teacher. It is all about doing what we can do!
poverty is not an inducement cause to stop learning. It can effect students but we should, as you mentioned, encourage and motivate them to keep working on themselves and educate themselves in order to fight the poverty and to improve their economic and education status.
ReplyDeleteAll students have the right to learn disregarding their economic status. As teachers we should encourage them and make them believe that they are capable to succeed in school as well as achieve their dreams.
ReplyDeleteOne of the teacher role is to encourage students and increase their self esteem. And all children have the right to learn equally. Without looking about their economic status.
ReplyDeletePoverty is nothing to be shame of and never poverty was a way to discourage the student to learn. We as teachers need to keep on motivating them and encouraging them that education is the best weapon that he/she can use it to face poverty and change their society to a world that is rich in educators.
ReplyDeleteAttending this webinar was very beneficial. All the students have the right to learn whether they are rich or poor. Moreover as a teacher we need to encourage and motivate students about the importance of education.
ReplyDeleteYes poverty is one of the reasons that prevent students to continue their education,but in other side it is right for every body to learn,here we see one role of teacher which is motivate the students about learning
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