The Path of Urban Teachers

The Path of Urban Teachers

Urban teachers are quietly to leave the schools because of the system. According to Haberman, the education system is failing because the system is not being efficient. Teachers are not taking their professions seriously, and can't even last long teaching urban students. Schools need urban teachers who are well trained in their skills of teaching and who know how to help students improve in the necessary area that they are lacking in. However, because urban teachers have higher demand, they sometimes cannot handle all the pressure and that is a major reason urban teacher are leaving their jobs so soon. A teacher must be well prepared to deal with students that have different backgrounds, culture, and style of life.

Even their way of learning is very different from other students. Some teachers are used to teaching students who are advance and catch onto the lessen sooner than others, which is troublesome to the other kids because that teacher will tend to go at the pace of the more advanced students than the pace of the students who need more time and explaining to understand a lesson. The odds are stacked against success mainly because of poverty. Students who come from a very poor family tend to have to prioritize other things such as food, clothing, a job, and their survival, more than their education, so if push comes to shove, these students would find it easier to drop out of school to find a job. Also because of their financial situation, they would focus more on having the next meal for their family to eat than on the lesson.

Students who are born in poor families don't get the education that others get, and are sometimes disregarded and even ignored by the upper class, because the upper class doesn't even give them a chance to prove themselves worthy. Not to mention that by being poor makes it harder to get a job because you may not have the knowledge necessary to do the job, and the owner may believer students of robbing them because you need the things for your family, even though stealing is far from your mind, but just because of your status, the upper-class men would think of you as untrustworthy.

Cited:

Haberman, Martin. “Selecting and Preparing Urban Teachers | Education News.” Http://Www.habermanfoundation.org/Articles/Default.aspx?Id=32, Martin Haberman, 28 Feb. 2005, www.bing.com/cr?IG=43E23069FEA6490D95634BAF09140786&CID=1322B31AEABE6E9C3B0BB82FEBB86FD1&rd=1&h=WKDHFV1sHrtPxsY3nxKDc9deHCEPUGT_nVPLnv04_5M&v=1&r=http%3a%2f%2fwww.educationviews.org%2fselecting-and-preparing-urban-teachers%2f&p=DevEx,5066.1.