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Why do I have green eyes?

By ~LS~ On June 28, 2006 · 2 Comments · In Pedagogy, Race and Racism and tagged Tagged With: Race, Teaching

Tomorrow is the last day of summer school. This month in the TBR Summer Institute has been intense and intensive.

I had an interesting racialized moment in class yesterday. One of the students, Benjamin, figured out that everyone in class had brown eyes except me. I have green eyes. He asked me why I had green eyes. How do I answer that question? I told him I was magic, just being flippant about it, without really thinking about the implications of what I said. I lost a teachable moment, there. He asked me to magic his eyes and make them green too.

I’ve had fun teaching the children this month. It’s been quite a learning experience. I am not weathering this transition as well as I hoped. I remember when I first started teaching, before I learned about feminist and critical pedagogy. I was a terrible teacher. I feel frustrated [...]

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By ~LS~ On June 3, 2006 · 1 Comment · In Pedagogy and tagged Tagged With: Baton Rouge, Pedagogy, Teaching

One thing I learned this week at the TBR institute is that good teaching is good teaching no matter what age. After a week of talking about Benchmarks, GLEs (grade level expectations), Objectives, Standards, and Guiding Questions, none of which we ever talk about at the university level, we spent Friday doing actual teaching and the CMAT (content master area teacher) did the same kinda stuff that I did at the University level.

The big controversy is STANDARDS and ACHIEVEMENT. The rhetoric of TBR (and EBRPSS, I imagine) is that regardless of your access to resources, regardless of the culture of your school, and regardless of the historical and material circumstances of the student(s), good teachers can still raise students to their expected level of achievement. I don’t know how I feel about this. In some ways I think it’s too easy for the failures to be laid at the [...]

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