As a teacher, your first job is to embrace the diversities a child may have that can affect the education of said child in a classroom. This may be easy or difficult. If you look at how school is organized majority of these speed bumps are easy to address.
1. Socioeconomic Status (SES): This inequality is unfortunately quite highly correlated with a child's academic success. It is a ranking system based on the hierarchy of wealth. You must try to avoid this having an effect on education. However I think this is a bigger problem in the cities because my highschool was small enough that the gap was pretty small.
2. Cultural Capital: The skills and habits inherited from family or community.
3. Reduce Barriers: This includes fashion (brand names), attitude and that alike. It is important as a teacher to watch that you avoid having expectations for specific students and to watch our own personal attitudes.
4. Multicultural Education: It is important that you empower students to take pride in their personal backgrounds. This empowerment will improve the community and their personal wellbeing.
This brings me back to my original point, what is it that determines a childs success? Thinking back to my schooling, I was always at the top of the class. For me this was not only an expectation of my parents, but of myself personally. I was encouraged to be the best I could be and to always try my best. So I think that home situation may be the strongest contributing factor to acedemic success. However I think having a strong role model also helps. Sometimes a child isn't lucky enough to have a foundation at home, and hopefully they can find guidance somewhere else. You should at least give them a positive learning environment where they have the opportunity to develop and potentially succeed.
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