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- Title
Bringing Society Inside the Classroom.
- Authors
Sawyer, Jessie
- Abstract
This essay explores the necessary linking of students' out of school lives with their in-school lives. By creating a comfortable environment where students are free to develop individual opinion on taboo topics and controversial issues, students will be more engaged and eager to learn. As mentors and educators, teachers should be incorporating texts, references, and other classroom content that mirrors what students see throughout their everyday lives. Diversity exists in all aspects of each student's world, and should be the center of classroom discussion. Rather than sheltering students from the world around them, it is a teacher's job to educate students not only to take standardized tests, but how to interact with the evolving society students are a part of.
- Subjects
SCHOOL environment; STANDARDIZED tests; STUDENTS; CLASSROOMS; STUDENT organizations
- Publication
Virginia English Journal, 2020, Vol 69, Issue 2, p74
- ISSN
0504-426X
- Publication type
Article