num_pages: 118
description: My new book, Teacher, Do You Know Where I Come From is about us reaching out to all of our young people through education. It is also about making available to them the best that we have to offer as educators, parents, and as community role models. We must extend to all of our young people access to teaching and knowledge that is unbiased, colorless, knowledge that will help them through the educational system that sometimes may appear unfair, biased and selective. All of our young people in America deserve the right and the access to education through the public school system that seeks to raise the bar of expectation.When we play down our expectations, we allow mediocrity, low self-esteem and a lack of respect for learning to create an empty space between teacher, parent and student. We can no longer afford to teach students in a system that first requires them to submit to our particular style, or that they submit to our assimilation in order to receive what we have as teachers and parents to offer them in regard to education.We must prepare (starting now) to offer all young people, a "view" from all angles and not just our angle.Our exploring where it is that kids come from offers, unlimited possibility of finding out exactly who they are and how we can best reach and teach them. Once we begin to do that, we begin to create a better cultural climate in our building and in our classrooms.
language: English
title: Teacher, Do You Know Where I Come From?
titlecomplete: Teacher, Do You Know Where I Come From?
publisher: Trafford on Demand Pub