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Solidarity, courage, and Heart: What teacher educators can learn from a new generation of teachers.
By and large I strongly agree with most of what Sonia Nieto has researched in this article and many of the things she talked about I had never even thought of before to be honest. I had realized that there were a lot of segregation and diversity was growing in many schools but I did not know that it was growing to this degree. Even smaller rural schools are facing this new element in schools and many do not know how to react.
I came from a small middle class farming area in Ohio. I went to school with on African American student. Since I have graduated there have been many new housing developments and the area has grown numerously, bringing in much more diversity. Just like Nieto has explained, the diversity is eventually going to be just as much part of smaller towns and rural areas as inner city schools. Also just like she explained, many people are not going to know how to react, not because they are prejudice, but because we have not grown up around it and are not used to it.
I agree that teachers need to be trained and be comfortable working with many different students in many different socio-economic backgrounds to better prepare themselves for the future and their career of teaching.


Class Goals
- To be able to work with many different types students with different ethnicities and socio-economic backgrounds and at the same time be comfortable doing it.
- Learn how to incorporate these different backgrounds into my teaching and lessons.
- Learn not only about these ethnicities but from them to better prepare myself for the future.