Those Who Can,Teach: Reflections on Teaching Diverse Populations

Author(s): Vivian Fueyo and Stephanie Bechtol

Source: Teacher Education Quarterly, Vol. 26, No. 3, Advancing Educational Opportunities
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Teacher Education Quarterly, Summer 1999

Those Who Can,Teach:

Reflections on Teaching
Diverse Populations
By Vivian Fueyo with Stephanie Bechtoi

Those who don't know any better come into our neighborhood scared. They think
we're dangerous. They think we will attack them with shiny knives. They are

stupid people who are lost and got here by mistake.

But we aren't afraid. We know the guy with the crooked eye is Davey, the Baby's
brother, and the tall one next to him in the straw brim, that's Rosa's Eddie V., and

the big one that looks like a dumb grown man, he's Fat Boy, though he's not fat
anymore nor a boy.

All brown all around, we are safe. But watch us

drive into a neighborhood of another color and our

Vivian Fueyo is a knees go shakity-shake and our car windows get

professor and Stephanie rolled UP ^ht and ur eyes look *** Yeah
Bechtol is a teacher That is how it goes and goes. (Cisneros, 1989, p. 28)

education student, both Teachers in the United States are working in far
with the Department of more heterogeneous classrooms than ever before.
Educational Theory and Rapid changes in the nature of the United States
Practice, College of school population are bringing to the classroom
Education, Florida State more students with limited-English proficiency and
University, Tallahassee, more immigrants with a wide variety of school prepa

Florida. ration (Cohen, 1994; Villegas, 1992). Tragically,

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school failure among linguistically and culturally diverse students seems to be
paralleling this increased heterogeneity (Goldenberg, 1996). For example, Hispan
ics are far more likely to drop out of school than are members of any other ethnic
group, with an estimated 40 percent of Hispanic students leaving high school before
the spring of their sophomore years (McKay, 1988). Equally tragic is the continuation

of differential levels of achievement between European-American and African

American students in the public schools (Irvine, 1990; Ptak, 1988). These trends
present a significant challenge to the next generation of teachers and to those
responsible for their training (Dilworth, 1992; 0'Hair& Odell, 1993; Zeichner, 1993).

If current demographic trends hold, the student population will become

increasingly linguistically and ethnically diverse, while the teaching population
remains predominantly European American, monolingual, and mostly female
(Ducharme & Ducharme, 1995 ; Gay, 1993). For purposes of this paper, we will use

Kenneth M. Zeichner's (1993) definitions of the terms diversity and diverse

learners: "differences [between the teachers and students] related to social class,
ethnicity, culture, and language" (p. 1). African Americans, the second largest
ethnic group among teachers, comprise 7 percent of all public school teachers in the

United States (National Center for Education Statistics [NCES], 1996). Presently
only 3 percent of all teachers in the United States are Hispanic with about 64
Hispanic students for every Hispanic teacher (de la Rosa, Maw & Yzaguirre, 1990;
Jimnez, Gersten, & Rivera, 1996).
Concerns exist in the teacher education literature that the stable demographics
of those going into teaching and the increasing diversity of those whom they will
be teaching is a chronic problem (Haberman, 1996; Larkin & Sleeter, 1995). Some
suggest that teachers of linguistically and culturally diverse children should be
selected from the same racial, ethnic, or linguistic group as the children being
taught. Proponents contend that teachers who are "matched" with their students
could provide positive role models, encourage children to perform better, and
understand and counsel children better (Arends, Clemson, & Henkelman, 1992;
Saracho & Spodek, 1995). Martin Haberman ( 1996) cautions against simplistic ethnic
or racial matching of teachers to their students. He advocates instead recruiting
teachers who have lived through similar life experiences of poverty and violence as
the urban children they plan to teach. These views are not universally held.
"Whether teachers' race and ethnicity affect student achievement remains an
open question" (Ladson-Billings, 1994, p. 26). Investigators have failed to find
empirically valid connections between teacher race-ethnicity and student achieve
ment (Jimnez, et al., 1996; King, 1993; Nieto, 1992; Schumann, 1992). As a result,
there appears to be widespread agreement that lack of empirical evidence in this
area permits us to focus on holding all teachers accountable for teaching all students

(Irvine, 1990, 1992; King, 1993; Ladson-Billings, 1994, 1995). Further, when
investigators focus on identifying the behaviors and attitudes of successful teachers
of diverse learners, their findings are consistent with assumptions about the positive
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effects of education and teacher training. In fact, evidence exists that matching
teachers and students by race and ethnicity may have a negative effect on student
achievement. T eachers of the same ethnic group but from a different socioeconomic

background may be less sensitive and more demanding of children, perceiving

them as lacking in ability or motivation (Carter, 1971; MacDonald, 1996).
While current efforts to increase diversity among teachers are laudable and
worth continuing, no empirical evidence exists that linguistically and culturally
diverse students learn better when taught by teachers of similar ethnicity, race, or
life experience (King, 1993; Ladson-Billings, 1994; Nieto, 1992). For purposes of
argument let me suggest that positing race, ethnicity, and life experience as
necessary and sufficient conditions for teaching diverse learners is similar to
arguing that motherhood is a necessary and sufficient condition for practicing
obstetrics. While I acknowledge that diverse learners are failing to succeed in

American classrooms, teachers' knowledge, beliefs, and classroom practices

appear more relevant variables for student success (Garcia, 1996; Irvine, 1992;

Jimnez, et al., 1996; Ladson-Billings, 1994). When teachers resolve "to help
students succeed, and., .use a variety of strategies to reach this goal" (Nieto, 1992,

p. 242), the unfamiliar becomes familiar. "All brown all around, we are safe"
(Cisneros, 1987, p. 28).
Teacher Effectiveness in a Multicultural Context
Shifting emphasis away from the race and ethnicity of the teachers in relation
ship to their students permits us to focus on those variables found to correlate with

effective teaching of diverse learners. Effective teachers of racially, ethno-linguis

tically diverse students share characteristics and teacher behaviors with all other
effective teachers: they are competent in subject matter; they communicate clearly
when giving directions, specifying tasks, and providing new information; they pace

instruction appropriately; they provide all students with access to high-status

knowledge; they specify task outcomes and what students must do to accomplish
the tasks; they regularly monitor student progress; they stress problem solving and
critical thinking; they have appropriately high standards and expectations for their
students; they build on existing student knowledge; they promote active student
involvement; and they provide immediate feedback on students' success whenever
required (Brophy, 1982; Garcia, 1996; Irvine, 1992; Schumann, 1992).
In addition to these shared characteristics, the teachers of diverse learners also
use the students' everyday experiences to link new concepts to prior knowledge and

culture (Garcia & McLaughlin, 1995; Milk, Mercado, & Sapiens, 1992), accept and

build on students' ideas and language (Ladson-Billings, 1994, 1995; Palincsar,

1996), and employ interactive methods (Jimnez et al., 1996; Tikunoff, 1983).

Interactive methods include: involving small groups of students on assigned

academic tasks with intermittent assistance by the teacher (Cohen, 1994), encour
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aging student-student discourse following the teacher's instructional initiation

(Jimnez et al., 1996), and encouraging students to learn collaboratively, not

necessarily in cooperative groups (Garcia, 1996).
Although Jacqueline J. Irvine (1992) and others (Ducharme & Ducharme, 1995;
Gersten & Jimnez, 1996; Ladson-Billings, 1995) call for continued research on
teaching practices for diverse students, the existing research on effective teaching
provides a useful framework for instruction. Successful teachers of diverse learners
share common attitudes, knowledge, and classroom practices (Garcia, 1996; Larkin
& Sleeter, 1995; Milk et al., 1992). As a group, these successful teachers are bound
not by secret knowledge or exclusive pedagogy but by a clear focus on helping
students achieve. In embracing this focus, they share a commitment to the flexibility
and perseverance it requires. Asa G. Hilliard (1988, p. 201) asserts that successful
teachers of urban, multicultural students do not possess special pedagogical skills.
Rather, urban, multicultural students fail because they have not been provided
"appropriate regular pedagogy." They fail because they have not been taught.
For this critical lack of focus on student achievement for diverse learners, some

have faulted inadequate teacher preparation (Larkin & Sleeter, 1995; Zeichner,

1993), lowered teacher expectations (Brophy & Good, 1970; Rueda & Garcia,
1996), or other perceived differences between teachers and students (Haberman,

1992,1996; Weinstein, 1989).

Teacher Expectations and Achievement in a Multicultural Context

Robert Rueda and Eugene E. Garcia (1996) investigated teachers' belief
systems and how they affected classroom practice, particularly on views of
linguistic diversity in the classroom. They investigated the "teachers' perspectives
on three areas relevant to the education of language minority students (value of

bilingualism, reading-related instructional models and practices, and reading

related assessment)" (p. 316). In classrooms with chronically low levels of student
language use, they found evidence of teacher beliefs and practices at odds with

current views of literacy instruction and assessment. Teachers with negative

perspectives:
...tended to discourage use of primary language, rarely or never [sic] included
bilingual materials in classroom activities....[teachers held views of] reading
emphasizing...form over function, and the segmentation of learning into discrete
skills or parts...[teachers held views of assessment] as the evaluation of discrete
products of learning, with minimal or no attention to context or other sociocultural

features, (pp. 319-320)

Similar negative results on student performance have been reported when

teachers' beliefs and classroom practices result in the differential treatment of

students because of gender differences (AAUW, 1992), stereotypical views of

surnames (Demetrulius, 1991), or insular life experiences (Noel, 1995; Tran,
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Young, & Di Leila, 1994). Correlations between teachers' expectations and student
achievement are familiar and well documented (Brophy & Good, 1970; Dusek &

Josef, 1983; Good & Weinstein, 1986). What appears to be different among
contemporary researchers is a heightened understanding of teachers' expectations
and instructional effectiveness in an increasingly diverse cultural context.
Teacher expectations for instructional effectiveness in a multicultural society
include: "having a positive orientation to working in culturally diverse settings"
(Larkin & Sleeter, 1995), "respecting cultural differences" (Rodriguez & Sjostrom,
1995), and "respecting diversity" (Wlodkowski & Ginsberg, 1995). This desirable
quality in teachers has been variously labeled "culturally aware" (Arends, et al.,
1992), "culturally competent" (Haberman, 1996), "culturally relevant" (Ladson
Billings, 1995), or "culturally responsive" (Villegas, 1991 ). Regardless of the label,
all of the preceding comprise four common elements: (1) rejecting deficit para
digms that prevail in the literature about the cultural, linguistic, or racial back
grounds of the students in comparison to other students (Ladson-Billings, 1995); (2)
knowledge of the interaction of the students' culture and the prevailing school

culture (Saracho & Spodek, 1995); (3) incorporating the contributions of the
students' culture into the curriculum (Sleeter, 1995); and (4) modifying instruction

to facilitate academic achievement among students from diverse groups (Ladson

Billings, 1994).
Accepting student failure is not an option for culturally relevant teachers. Instead,

they create social interactions between students to help them meet the criteria for

academic success. Culturally relevant teachers encourage students to be responsible

for the academic success of others. They teach students how to be successful learners.

They reject deficit notions about the students' language and family backgrounds.
Culturally relevant teachers use strategies that teach students how to be successful
learners consistent with the view that the teachers hold for them.

More than simply holding high expectations for their students, successful
teachers of diverse learners actively reject the notion of student failure. They share

a belief in common about the educability of the students. They reject notions that
blame the children for their failure to leam, or attribute student failure to the
economic, racial, or linguistic background of their families. Instead, successful
teachers of diverse students accept responsibility for teaching their students and for

providing them with the information and skills they needed. They hold their
students accountable for their own learning. These "culturally competent" teachers
represent the desirable qualities in any teacher for meeting the needs of diverse
learners. As models for future teachers, they present a worthy challenge.

Self-Examination Among Prospective Teachers

Current understanding of the changing nature of the student population, the
decreasing achievement among diverse learners, the stable demographics of the
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teaching force, and the growing contrast between these factors, hold important
implications for the preparation of future teachers (Ducharme & Ducharme, 1995;
Garcia, 1994; Haberman, 1994). Gloria Ladson-Billings (1995) suggests a critical
framework for examining teacher preparation programs for meeting the needs of
diverse learners. Does the curriculum teach prospective teachers about the nature
of student-teacher relationships, the curriculum, schooling, and society? 1 suggest
that the self-examination called forby Edward R. Ducharme and Mary K. Ducharme

(1995) and others (Haberman, 1996; Larkin & Sleeter, 1995; Zeichner, 1993) is a
promising vehicle for ensuring among prospective teachers this moral "plumb line"
represented by Ladson-Billings' (1995) curriculum. Garcia and Barry McLaughlin
(1995) refer to it as "teacher proficiency:"
[It] is based on an understanding of children, their language, their culture, and their

values. Teacher proficiency is based also on the teachers' responses to their

students [and an understanding of the effects those responses will have on the

children they teach.] All of these facets of teaching need to be considered in

preparing prospective teachers, (p. 135)

As teacher education continues to strive for the laudable goals of increased

diversity among teachers for America's students, it remains equally important for
the profession to remain focused on preparing well all its future teachers. Regard
less of their own life experiences, all teachers must be prepared to help every student

learn. Regardless of ethnicity or language, when beginning teachers are well

prepared, concerns about teaching only as they were taught are groundless.
Stephanie, one of the students in our teacher preparation program, included the
following essay in one of her written comprehensive examination questions. I found
it so compelling, that 1 asked her if I could include it in this article. Join me in
following Stephanie through her journey in defining herself as a teacher. She is a
thoughtful beginning teacher, focused on student learning, reflecting on teaching
and learning, respecting and valuing diversity, and knowledgeable in practices and
strategies for melding these into one. Her voice, and others like hers, of European
American, monolingual, female teachers, often remains unheard. I believe hers is
precisely the self-examination we need from teachers of diverse learners. It is a
voice we need to hear.

A Beginning Teacher's Reflection on Teaching Diverse Learners

Last semester, I took an inclusion class. During one class session we had a

guest. She was a second grader who was placed in a local "regular " education
classroom. She came to our class with her grandmother, who was fluent in sign
language. While the grandmother translated, the second grader told of how she had
only one friend in the school and how isolated she felt. The teacher had not made
any effort to include this girl into the classroom, nor had she made any attempt to
learn sign language. Her onefriend at the school was the only person who made any
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attempt at communication. Her education was placed in the hands of the special
education teacher, with whom she spent 90 minutes each day. She spent her lunch

hour in silence. Most of my peers in the teacher preparation program were very
disturbed by this story. I kept saying to myself "What kind ofteacher is she? "Now,

I realize that she is the kind of teacher about which the books on multicultural
education are being written. I guess some people just don 't think.
I use the above example because I feel that it can best illustrate how I would
view a child who has not mastered the English language. If a child is ignored
because of something that cannot be controlled, what will become of that child?
What has any child done to deserve a lesser education because of disability, or skin
color, or language? Although speaking a language other than English is not a
disability, there is a stigma attached that can be just as alienating. As teachers, it
is our responsibility to break the communication barriers, not only to ensure true
learning, but to help with the socialization and acceptance of each child. I truly
believe that ifmy students are not participating members of the class, it is nobody's

fault but mine. No excuses!

It is important in dealing with multicultural or non-English speaking students
to prioritize the objectives ofthe curriculum. If the teacher's curriculum goals were
to mold his or her students into the stereotypical view ofthe "ideal "American child,

they would rob the students of the kind ofpersonal enrichment, engagement, and
wonderment that sparks the work ofgreat minds. In contrast, if teachers wanted to

ensure real learning, they would engage the students in active discussions and
experiences using their own cultural background and language.
My own father had a passion for boats beginning in early childhood. He spent
his summer days sailing through the canals ofHolland dreaming of his future days
at sea. By the age of ten my father had designed his own sailboat. That same year,
he and his family sailed to America to live the "American dream. " Unfortunately,
the dream faded and my father struggled to make his way in this new world. All of

what he knew had changed, expect his love for sailboats.

By the time my father was in high school, he had built his own sailboat and
worked part-timefor a local boat manufacturer. Myfather's school days were spent
completing mediocre work, daydreaming about his future, and drawing design
after design of sailboats. His English teacher, Mr. P, to become my English teacher
nearly twenty years later, repeatedly told my father that he was wasting his time.
What Mr. P did not know was that my father may have omitted reading the classics,
but he was enthralled with books about yachts, yachters, andfaraway places. You
can imagine my pride when I told Mr. P that my dad was a huge success designing,

building, restoring, and repairing boats in his own yacht yard. Mr. P said, "Oh. "
I am relating all of this about my dad, not because I think you have any great
interest in the history of my family, but because I think it illustrates the one
sidedness and intolerance for people who do notfit stereotypical images. So many
of my dad's early experiences in this country were filled with ridicule about his
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language and his lifestyle. Few people saw that underneath his funny pronunciation

of words was a mind filled with purpose, ideas, drive and brilliance. I'm sure that
we can all think of some unique ways that Mr. P could have incorporated my dad's
interest in boats into his English curriculum. Fortunately, my dad had a dream and
was self-motivated in full-filling that dream. Unfortunately, few people, especially
teachers, supported him as the bright, capable person he would prove himself to be.

In my opinion, learning is about expressioneach person expressing his ideas,

beliefs, feelings and hypotheses in order to arrive at a goal or purpose. Asa teacher,
my goal is for each ofmy students to find their own meaning. For individuals to find

their own meaning they must pull from their own background and experiences. Of
course, I could stand at the front of the room and try to explain concepts based on
my own understanding, but how would that be relevant to my students. They have
not seen what I have seen, they have not heard what I have heard, they have not lived
through what I have lived. What makes me think that they will understand the way
Ido? One thing I know deep inside is that if I have high expectations for each of my

students and I give them the chance and the tools for success, they will learn. They
will find their own meaning.

I recently saw a T-shirt that said, "It's about characternot color. " The T
shirt, of course, was referring to racial differences, but I think it said a lot about any

differences. Teachers have a responsibility to look beyond the obvious and

superficial and find the potential in each child.

Implications for Teacher Educators

Teacher educators have a concomitant responsibility to look beyond the
obvious and superficial and find the potential in every prospective teacher.
Regardless of prospective teachers' race, ethnicity, or life experiences, their teacher
preparation curricula should include: ( 1 ) an understanding of the nature of student

teacher relationships, the curriculum, schooling, and society; (2) active self
examination; (3) teaching strategies that model active, meaningful, and ethno
linguistically appropriate student involvement; and (4) practices that communicate
high expectations for all learners, actively rejecting any notions of student failure.

In Stephanie's words, "No excuses!"

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