Teresa Goodman

Teresa Goodman

Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Start Seeing Diversity Blog: "We Don't Say Those Words in Class!"


One day at work, I was in the classroom and I witnessed a parent who would come in the class and help her son with his morning work. She noticed me watching and begin to explain why she was helping him. She told me he was autistic and had trouble writing. I told her she didn’t need to explain that I understood. While she was explaining the teacher walked back in the classroom. One of the students asked, why his mom couldn’t come in the classroom to help him with his work. The teacher asked him to take his seat and to speak out of turn.

The response given by the teacher could have led the child to think he was not important enough for his mom to come help him.

An anti-bias educator might have told him that it would be ok for his mom to come help him, but because you all are different one student may require more assistance than others.

 

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