Experiences Of Middle Class

Poverty is everywhere in this world especially in education. Poverty in education could come from the location of the school, the child’s home life, how the students feel about school and in many other ways. Poverty comes in all shapes and forms, “An appalling number of American Children live in poverty. According to the National Center for Children in Poverty, 14.7 million, or nearly 20 percent of children under age 18, live below the poverty line” (When Poverty…). The kids/students bring those debilitating effect with them to school every day.

In the book Miseducating Teachers about the poor: A Critical Analysis of Ruby Payne’s claims about poverty. Ruby Payne’s talks about the poverty is the extend to which an individuals does without resourcs specially pain talks about all the different resources that are avaiblae to someone in poverty. Moreover, Payne dicusses differences among students who come from poverty, middel class, and wealthybackground, and she makes recommendation about how teachers can better educate children from poverty. Her work focusses on poverty, it’s effect of students and offer them support. Payane suggests that creating a rlationships with students in poverty is a key to students achievement.

A Framework for Understanding Poverty is a valuable tool to the helping profession. It has a lot of good information about the cultural differences between classes. It offers practical solutions to many problems commonly encountered when educators have problems with their students who live in poverty. The book helps educators to assist students who live in poverty survive in the middle-class world. Payne 's work has been eye opening in

Educators are perhaps the best super humans out there at this point in age. They constantly have to change and adapt new skills to keep up with new technology, psychological upgrades and environmental traumas that impact students. In Eric Jensen’s Teaching with Poverty in Mind provides new techniques future and current educators should use to combat the impact that poverty has on students, mentally, emotionally and physically. Jensen’s text has strengthened my opinions on education as well as added new views towards my future career as a high school educator.

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A Framework for Understanding Poverty is a book, written by Ruby K. Payne for the purpose of helping educators impact their students in poverty through opportunities. This book examines experiences from all economic classes in order to evaluate the differences in education among each class. Payne talks about the different types of poverty and the resources needed to be a stable and educated person. Poverty is “the extent to which an individual does without resources”.

As Connell, White and Johnston (1990,p.9) state, 'There is not a “culture of poverty”, nor any key “deficit” that makes poor people different from everybody else and therefore and educational problem'. Teachers and Education Assistants need to adapt into the culture of poverty and be sensitive and understandable to the extensive bar of needs that children of poverty bring to the classroom and they need to consider the cultural values of these children as they arrange their learning. The basis of Groundwater-Smith, Ewing and Le Cornu's opinions in the article is they position readers to view that the teachers dispositions low income students and that rarely the educators offer the same level or enough aid and attention than the other students and they are less likely to succeed in school when compared with the more advantaged children. According to Groundwater-Smith, Ewing and Le Cornu's and Geoffrey D. Borman and Laura T. Rachuba they both state that students from lower income families may not have as high expectations from their parents, teachers or their peers within the school. The students may also not be confident in their own abilities and

Unfortunately, the school's lack of appropriate education results directly from poor government funding. So even with hard work, the lower-class student is still held down by his socio-economic status. Poverty-stricken parents are unable to offer their children the same attention and motivation as parents of a higher-class can, therefore never providing these children with the mindset that they are able to accomplish the American dream. According to Mantsios, 40 million Americans live in poverty, and the mental and physical affects the low standard of living has on them is undeniable (Mantsios 328). Citizens who live in poverty work long hours for little pay, yet return to a household that in no way symbolizes the hard work put forth. Within this environment, very few people have the positive outlook to mentor children successfully.

There are many people in this country who are facing problem. They want to get well education as others,but they are not able to get it because of their issues. On the other hand there are some people who do not take education seriously.The more money you have the better options you have for education.The upper class has better opportunity for education then the other two classes.

Issues of poverty relate to multicultural education because they are both obstacles to overcome as a teacher. In addition, these two might even come hand in hand. In some cases, a child might have to deal with both of these in his/her education, as well as their own learning. To teach a multicultural classroom, one much teach the diverse groups of students in a way that all cultures, ethnicities, and national heritages can learn. Incorporating poverty, including white poverty, into a multicultural classroom means that the teacher must also teach according to their backgrounds and home life. I am passionate about reaching out to those students, so that each and every one of them feel comfortable, excited, and enthusiastic about their learning and education.

Currently I am learning about families in poverty. In the first week of my class I learned that over 15% of the United States population is living in poverty (Bumpus). The United States has one of the highest poverty rates for being a developed country. Poverty can affect a family in so many ways for example financial stress, health problems, behavioral issues, and poor schooling or education. One of my main focuses is the poor schooling and education. I am currently an Elementary Education major at Washington State University. Becoming a teacher I know that I personally will have students who are living in poverty. There should be a good understanding of what a child goes through under those conditions. There are many factors from living in poverty that contribute to a child’s academic achievement in school, instead of having the poverty rate rise there should be a solution to minimize the rate of poverty.

I grew up on the middle class area in Mexico, Rio Grande Zacatecas. My grandparents were wealthy enough to the point where they were able to build their own house, and while having mini secrete rooms around the house and me being adventurous, I made a promise to find and claim every single room even though I wasn't the only child but it didn’t stop me from claiming them all mine. Both of my parents were born to work and couldn't go a day doing nothing so they helped with money. Growing up in a middle class, secured area, feeling safe when I left my grandparents home to pay the corner store a visit or visit a friends house was a great feeling. Never having to worry about any dangers. Everybody in the neighborhood knew who I was and I knew who

According to the American Psychological Association (n.d.), “Socioeconomic status (SES) is often measured as a combination of education, income and occupation. It is commonly conceptualized as the social standing or class of an individual or group.” Poverty, lower education level, poor health, among others, are part of having a low SES that affect our society (American Psychological Association, n.d.). Sometimes could be difficult to have equity in our classroom when the SES of the children and the teacher are very different. However, you can get balance by knowing your students and understand them. Students who live in poverty have a lot of problems in their home. According to The American Life (2012), if a

I have a daughter who is in 4th grade, she goes to school with lots of kids from upper middle-class families. I see examples of these parents asking for extra’s for their children in the classroom all the time. Many families in our community, are always on the go with multiple activities for their children on a daily basis. Often times I see lower class families who feel like they need to try and keep up, so that their children don’t get left behind. This is not always possible, as they may have to work longer hours than their middle-class counterparts. They depend more on extended family and the independence of the kids to get by. To me, to much structure in a child’s life can be damaging, and can leave them unable to cope with life’s

Poverty occurs in many families and affects them in many ways. Teachers main concerns in poverty is how it impacts the child development. “Families who live in poverty face disadvantages that can hinder their children’s development in many ways” (Duncan, 2014). Not all teachers know the impact that a child in poverty has to go thru each day. It is hard trying to focus in class and thinking about where you will sleep or when you will have your next meal. This paper shows resources that a teacher can use when having a child in poverty in their classroom so they can better understand the student. It also addresses the global effects of poverty and educational outcomes by including findings from both developed and developing countries. Teacher’s support and society can help a child in poverty and the family.