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Creating Classrooms For Equity And Social Justice In Education

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Social Justice within Education is not something that magically happens. A teacher won’t wake up one day and their classroom will magically be filled with equality and the teacher themselves won’t be biased. The teacher is the main contributor to having that equality. Social justice starts somewhere, and it starts with them. In a passage I read called “Creating Classrooms for Equity and Social Justice,” it pointed out many things that can help with making a classroom equal. Having the social justice curriculum. One of the statements listed were letting the students have say in their lessons. It lets them be involved in the classroom. This way, it helps with their decision making in the near and/or far future. In my perspective, without letting …show more content…

Charles Cassar tells Pondiscio and Paul Pastorek a story about how he was teaching world history and going over a review on Renaissance. Cassar says, “One of my kids puts his hand up and says, ‘Mr. Cassar, I don’t get it. Does God not make Michaelangelos or Leonardo DaVincis anymore?’” Cassar then has a moment and asks himself what they, as teachers, can do to develop the education and knowledge of students like the one in the story. Robert Pondiscio then has a moment of realization and says “…. I realized I didn’t know if that student was black or white. It hadn’t occurred to me to ask.” And to me, it just shows that being a persons knowledge should not be based on what ethnicity they …show more content…

And that is trust. Trust is a big thing in a classroom when it comes to building equality or social justice. The passage states that if the student doesn’t feel safe in any form, they won’t make connections to their personal feelings and experiences pertaining to the lesson or discussion. They will just come up with answers that they aren’t even sure about. As a teacher, you should be able to build that trust between you and the student as well as the trust between the students themselves. In conclusion, equality in a classroom doesn’t really start until the teacher addresses it. It’s really important that they do so. By doing so, students will be able to treat each other equally. They will also be able to trust and respect not only each other, but the teacher as well. It’s like the golden rule: Treat others how you want to be

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