Major themes identified.
| Major Themes | |
|---|---|
| A Need for Cultural Competence | Varied Meanings of Cultural Responsiveness |
| Honestly, this trip has been just what I imagined it to be. I imagined it not being a high population of African Americans here, which it is not. I imagined the grown- ups…I imagined them acting the way they act because they don’t have exposure to people like us all the time. | I asked about the Black demographics and she didn’t have nothing to give me. I can understand slim to none, but if you know you have an urban community school coming, you should have this stuff ready for us. There may be zero Black people, but you could say if there was this is how we would react to it or in the past…She had nothing to tell us. I have a problem with that. They need to learn about everything. That’s the problem. I know they are not culturally relevant. |
| When we walked in they were talking to us, trying to get to know us. I guess that changed my perspective and you can’t go off of what people tell you. | We also have to think that the minorities may not be Black. They have to address the minority students. We can’t come in and say it’s going to be all about Black students. They might have one Black kid. Ya’ll want to know about one Black kid? We want to learn about the minority in that school. |
| You can tell when someone is trying to be harmful or negative. I don’t think people were trying to be rude. They said what they know and what they were used to. | I feel like at both schools we got the feeling of how the principals and teachers thought of their students as individuals. Even though we didn’t get the direct answer about culturally responsive teaching, that kind of implies these students are taken care of because they are seen as their own individual. That’s how I think they approach culturally responsive teaching. It might not be like how we are used to seeing, but that’s their way of incorporating it. They might not even know that’s what they are doing. |
| It allowed me to further my perspective on different people, particularly when it comes to putting myself in situations that I wouldn’t normally be in to make me uncomfortable. | When we say culturally responsive teaching, we are not just talking about minorities. When we say culturally responsive teaching, we are talking about learning how to teach all students and you have to let them know that too. |
| I was able to build relationships with people that I typically wouldn’t build relationships with. | |
| The experience really forced us to go outside of our comfort zones to understand that we learn a lot from different people. As a result, we become better and stronger people because of that. | |
| It first seemed like the people were scared of us because we’re Black and it’s not a lot of Blacks around here. When we started talking to them, it seemed so different. Like, you know, we had a lot in common. | |
| Major Themes | |
|---|---|
| A Need for Cultural Competence | Varied Meanings of Cultural Responsiveness |
| Honestly, this trip has been just what I imagined it to be. I imagined it not being a high population of African Americans here, which it is not. I imagined the grown- ups…I imagined them acting the way they act because they don’t have exposure to people like us all the time. | I asked about the Black demographics and she didn’t have nothing to give me. I can understand slim to none, but if you know you have an urban community school coming, you should have this stuff ready for us. There may be zero Black people, but you could say if there was this is how we would react to it or in the past…She had nothing to tell us. I have a problem with that. They need to learn about everything. That’s the problem. I know they are not culturally relevant. |
| When we walked in they were talking to us, trying to get to know us. I guess that changed my perspective and you can’t go off of what people tell you. | We also have to think that the minorities may not be Black. They have to address the minority students. We can’t come in and say it’s going to be all about Black students. They might have one Black kid. Ya’ll want to know about one Black kid? We want to learn about the minority in that school. |
| You can tell when someone is trying to be harmful or negative. I don’t think people were trying to be rude. They said what they know and what they were used to. | I feel like at both schools we got the feeling of how the principals and teachers thought of their students as individuals. Even though we didn’t get the direct answer about culturally responsive teaching, that kind of implies these students are taken care of because they are seen as their own individual. That’s how I think they approach culturally responsive teaching. It might not be like how we are used to seeing, but that’s their way of incorporating it. They might not even know that’s what they are doing. |
| It allowed me to further my perspective on different people, particularly when it comes to putting myself in situations that I wouldn’t normally be in to make me uncomfortable. | When we say culturally responsive teaching, we are not just talking about minorities. When we say culturally responsive teaching, we are talking about learning how to teach all students and you have to let them know that too. |
| I was able to build relationships with people that I typically wouldn’t build relationships with. | |
| The experience really forced us to go outside of our comfort zones to understand that we learn a lot from different people. As a result, we become better and stronger people because of that. | |
| It first seemed like the people were scared of us because we’re Black and it’s not a lot of Blacks around here. When we started talking to them, it seemed so different. Like, you know, we had a lot in common. | |