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Show The Broad September Ax 1975 Page Bound Student 6 Important to an interracial classroom is a teacher who can facilitate students’ relations to one another by attempting to create a cohesive classroom group which develops its own norms and self regulatory devices, as well as academic and social leadership patterns. As an effective teacher-organizer, all students in a classroom are involved in selecting, organizing;. and carrying on learning tasks by themselves. In these activities the teacher's function is to motivate students to work with One another. Transmitter of academic knowledge requires the teacher to provide material that is exciting and meaningful and delivered with imagination. Vital, also, is the teacher’s ability to translate and present standard material in ways that are relevant to students’ lives, and their current situations. In contrast to transmitting knowledge the technique of the student-discovery method, requires specific skills be developed on the part of the teacher to evoke the initiative of the students, while in the former method the teacher assumes the © Debbie Gray | Upward alternatives as illegitimate. Effective exploration of values requires that the teacher help youngsters to examine their own beliefs and anticipate the consequence for themselves and - initiative to which the students respond. The teacher, as a value explorer, assists students in exploring their own beliefs and values and see the elations between such others. Alert teachers look forward to’ an interracial classroom because they expect to: learn from it. Students should know that they can be agents of their teacher’s growth. Teachers should share teaching responsibilities. with students in order that they may Jearn values and behavior. The schools traditionally dealt with value issues by denial or defining from one another. opportunities seek to In addition to seeking to co-learn, the teacher should organize programs that will persons outside the classroom to react. While instruction the primary in the purpose interracial allow — of academic classroom is the. attainment of quality education for <all students, the teacher must be aware that the interracial situation can and should have more IN THE CLASSROOM specific and immediate objectives, such as; understanding and acceptance of people with’ diverse styles, beliefs and interests. Therefore, | vitally important to instruction is that lesson plans. reflect the issues themselves. Through concept teaching each student learn to examine the consequences of his own interpretation. Editor’s by N.T. Miller, Ed.D. Note: N.T. Miller is an Associate Professor of Education and Director of Project Upward Bound at Houston _ Tillotson College in Austin, Texas. |
