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Resources on Making Space for and Supporting Students of Color TITLE AUTHOR/SOURCE Blogs 10 Things I Wish My White Teacher Knew Joy Mohammed – Wear Your Voice Magazine A Letter From a Black Scholar Leighia Fleming – The PraXis A Letter to White Teachers of My Black Children Afrika Afeni Mills – Teaching While White Teaching While White Molly Tansey – Teaching Tolerance Four Ways Teachers Can Support Students of Color Dena Simmons – Cult of Pedagogy How to Support Students of Color Karen Kelsky – The Professor Is In/ Chronicle Vitae White Teachers Need to See Color. Here’s Why. Joy Mohammed – We Are Teachers Peer-Reviewed Articles and Chapters White Fragility Robin DiAngelo – International Journal of Critical Pedagogy Microaggressive Impact on Education and Teaching: Edited Volume – Race Dialogues: A Facilitator's Guide to Facilitating Difficult Dialogs on Race in the Classroom Tackling the Elephant in the Classroom Women of Color in the Academy: Where’s Our Authority Juanita Johnson-Bailey & Ming-Yeh Lee – Feminist in the Classroom? Teacher Black at Higher Education Karima Kadi-Hanifil – Universal Journal of Educational Research Supporting Graduate Students of Color in Educational Michelle D. Young and Jeffrey S. Brooks – Educational Administration Preparation Programs: Faculty Administration Quarterly Perspectives on Best Practices, Possibilities, and Problems News and Newsletter Sources What is Faculty Diversity Worth to a University Patricia A. Matthew – The Atlantic Diversifying a Discipline Vimal Patel – The Chronicle of Higher Education How Teachers of all Races can Better Support Students of Valerie Strauss – The Washington Post Color Navigating the Ivory White Tower: Experiences as a POC Tri Keah S. Henry and Alondra D. Garza – ACJS Today in Academia Technical Reports/Resource Guides Addressing Race and Trauma in the Classroom: A The National Child Traumatic Stress Network Resource for Educators 12/21/2019 10 Things I Wish My White Teacher Knew Support us by donating on Patreon! Support N E W S & P O L I T I C S E N T E R T A I N M E N T A N D C U L T U R E S E X A N D H E A L T H C O L U M N S S H O P T R E N D I N G You are here: Home / Race / 10 Things I Wish My White Teacher Knew D O N A T E 10 THINGS I WISH MY WHITE TEACHER KNEW G U E S T W R I T E R x D E C 1 4 , 2 0 1 6 by Joy Mohammed https://wearyourvoicemag.com/race/10-things-wish-white-teacher-knew 1/12 12/21/2019 10 Things I Wish My White Teacher Knew If you think that race does not have an impact on the way that an educator teaches school children, please come on in and take a seat. I, a black student, owe a lot of my academic intelligence to my white teachers over the years, but I know that I have never felt that the expectation for my performance was lower than when I had a white instructor. Oh, the well-meaning microaggressions! It may have been me; as for my racist ass chemistry teacher, in particular, I am sure it was him. But there are a few things that I wish my white teacher knew: 1. IT’S NOT ALL YOUR FAULT. Please do not think that students will learn about slavery and start to view you as a descendant of the overseer. And if they do, this is a great opportunity to share that all white people were not slave owners — some of you just got here. So since we got it out of the way that slavery was not your fault, can we talk about it, please? Talk about the subjugation of darker people, the indierence paid to the poor. Let’s talk about the boy who was shot by the police and the mayor covered it up. Turn your classrooms into petri dishes of opinions and conversations for a child’s mind. Do not tell them what to think, but challenge them to back up their one-dimensional views with facts and research. Yes, the ones they get from Instagram memes and ear hustling. 2. WORDS MEAN THINGS. Words mean lots of dierent things. You need to be clear on what you say and how you say it. A linguistics study was performed by the University of Michigan that examined children who ask “Can I have a piece of cake?” versus children who ask “May I?” The study also showed that the kids who asked if they “can” have a dierent perception of their abilities and potential for success. This is juxtaposed to the children who ask “may” D O to be more submissive and tie their success to the permissiveness of others. Hmmmm. So what does this N A T mean? Many Black kids, who were taught to ask “may,” fear or respect authority on another level than the white E child who thinks in the “cans.” Put that in your toolbox for a rainy day. 3. THEY YELL. And it is not personal. They were yelled at, they yell to you, they want to be heard. Everyone yells in black homes all the time. I have personally never been to a white home to witness this, but I think some of your mommas be yelling too. I have witnessed the legendary white whooping so please stop thumbing your noses as us. Related: Kentucky High School Suspends Black Hair Policy After Parent Speaks Out 4. THEY AREN’T HERE TO ENTERTAIN YOU. Please do not ask the children in your class to show you how to nae nae unless you are going to do it with them (Here’s to you, Ron Clark). There is a lot of bad history surrounding blacks entertaining white people. Look it up. So since you ain’t Sista Mary Clarence and I ain’t Lauryn Hill, please spare us all the inspirational school year you think you are about to have surrounding song and dance. Moreover, our children are there to be educated by you, not to entertain you. If you want to brush up on your black culture, please see the latest Tyler Perry lm starring Tyler Perry in about three or more roles. https://wearyourvoicemag.com/race/10-things-wish-white-teacher-knew 2/12 12/21/2019 10 Things I Wish My White Teacher Knew The Ron Clark Academy 5. THEY AREN’T LIKE ALL THE OTHER KIDS. Do not ever in your life think that you can educate inner city kids with techniques that were not designed for inner city kids. You are not Hillary Swank, and you cannot write us through our blackness. You will fail those kids, and you are a failure as a teacher. All children are unique all the time. Children may communicate and interact in a way that may be foreign to any way that you were ever treated. And it is not a poor reection on D O their environment necessarily, but a reection on you as a teacher to adapt to students needs. N A T E 6. IT IS IMPORTANT THAT THEY LIKE YOU. ESPECIALLY BECAUSE THEIR PARENTS DON’T LIKE YOU. Following up with what we said before, parents in general are supposed to be protective of their young. With racism being everywhere, students may be privy to some pretty racially charged conversations at home. I grew up with a family where there were four degrees between my parents and they referred to my teachers as “that white teacher.” And you did too. The damage is in the micro-communication that a white teacher does not care about their young the way a black teacher will. There is also an unspoken rule of black people sticking together. That is why parents will request to move their student to the “black teachers” homeroom. Or maybe a parent will ask to move the student to the white teacher’s classroom because there is a perception of more structure or hostility. I don’t know! But I do know that your only defense against that type of thought is to get buy-in from your students, who afterward will defend their white teacher vehemently at home. 7. THEY NEED YOU. Yes, you are their gatekeeper into whiteness. The reality is that black children need to learn to behave in a “white way” in order to avoid being mislabeled as ADHD, pre-juvenile, or some other nonsense. They need you to show them what the real dierence between and inside voice and an outside voice. They need to understand that if you do not always say what you are thinking that you are not being fake, but polite. And they really need https://wearyourvoicemag.com/race/10-things-wish-white-teacher-knew 3/12 12/21/2019 10 Things I Wish My White Teacher Knew to learn how to run shit. And yes, we stay taking notes. The reality is many of these children will end up working for a white person one day and they need to understand our dierences. 8. THEIR COUSINS PROBABLY WON’T DO A DAMN THING. This is pretty self-explanatory. Stop being so easily intimidated. Ain’t no one trying to get shot by the police behind some classroom beef. Probably. D O N A T E 9. THEY FEAR SOMEBODY OR SOMETHING. If you cannot win the child over with your shiny hair or deep-sea eyes, you need to nd out who is the person they care about the most. Get their phone number and kiss their ass, so that when you call Granny on them they already know that Granny no longer refers to you as”that white teacher” — you have a name and you have inuence.
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