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Ferlandus Smith
Poverty affects students in a major way when it comes to academics. Students who live in poverty do not have all the necessities and support that contributes to being completely successful in a school setting. They have emotional issues and struggle with learning. Students that live in poverty have what we call street smart. They know how to survive by any means necessary. They are accustomed to this lifestyle even if this means spending time in prison or a juvenile facility. These students suffer from so many issues. Their way of thinking and surviving is different from a middle- or upper-class student.
It is often said that students that live in poverty have a lower success rate than average students. This in fact is true according to statistics. I do not feel that these students are incapable of learning. Their lifestyle makes it more difficult. These students go through so much. It makes it difficult for teachers to help them to see a better way of living. It makes it harder to educate these students, but it is not impossible. Some students have been very successful that grew up in poverty. The key is for them to have the determination and the right mindset.
As a teacher, it is more difficult to teach students who live in poverty. They have a different mindset, they are surrounded by negativity, they suffer from emotional stress, they lack necessities such as clothes, food, etc. They struggle and can be difficult to get through to. A lot of these students lack parental support. Middle-class students are easier. They may get caught up in name-brand clothing. They are also more susceptible to being teased for not wearing the latest brands. They are easier to teach because they know core values. They know the importance of getting an education. These students face disciplinary challenges, but they have parental support. Upper-class students are easier to teach. Teachers are challenged because these students also feel a sense of entitlement. You have to face the sense of entitlement from their parents as well. This can be challenging. You won’t struggle much with academics because these parents are going to ensure their children’s success. Each class has its own set of difficulties but is not incapable of being successful.
Angela Hamilton
The adverse effects poverty often has on student learning are, children from low-income families often do not receive the stimulation and do not learn the social skills required to prepare them for school. Also, children from low-income families often start school already behind their peers who came from more affluent families, as shown in measures of school readiness. The incidence, depth, duration and timing of poverty all influence a child’s educational attainment, along with community characteristics and social networks. The distinguish explicit beliefs about poverty and people who live in poverty from tacitly held assumptions, one myth is that poor people are unmotivated and have weak work ethics. The reality is poor people do not have weak or weaker ethics or low levels of motivation than wealthier people (Iversen & Farber, 1996; Wilson, 1997). Another myth is poor people tend to abuse drugs and alcohol. But the reality is poor people are no more likely than their wealthier counterparts to abuse alcohol or drugs. Although drug sales are more visible in poor neighborhoods, drugs use is equally distributed across poor, middle class, and wealthy communities(Saxe, Kadushin, Tighe, Rindskopf, & Beveridge, 2001). My assumptions about socioeconomic status hinder your effectiveness as a teacher? I teach with their social needs in mind. Students from low-incomes families are more likely to develop social conduct problems. Student with health concerns, are monitored by me closely because students who live in poverty are more subjective to health issues; like Covid-19. Therefore, I make sure all students have masks and sanitizer, so we can stay safe. Surviving in Poverty myself, has helped me understand how to teach students coming from low-income families and how to communicate in a caring and sympathy way. But I can also be an effective teacher to Middle class students because I raised my children in a middle class environment. However, I do not think there is a big difference in teaching students whether they come from poverty or middle class. The only things different are the resources that teachers have assess to such as; chrome books, laptops, books, etc.
Ashley Robinson
Adverse effects hinder students’ learning by firstly altering their childhood. Childhood is supposed to be a time where a child can enjoy innocent, carefree time- their true nature. Children should be able to explore and learn in different ways. However, children living in poverty are not able to do so. ” They have fewer books at home, visit the library less ofter… ( Kuymanyija &Grier, 2006). Children living in poverty have a lower chance in going to college due to the likely fact of being raised in a single parent household due to financial resources and parental time (Evans, 2004). Younger children are much more vulnerable and the adverse effects can effect them and their development to where their adapt adverse adaptive response. This can create a more “stress-ridden” relationship between child and teacher or children their own age. Attitudes, academic performance, behavior, and attendance becomes poor as the child grows older and higher education becomes a none factor. Assumptions ac\bout socioeconomic status can hinder my effectiveness as a teacher by not allowing me to reach all of my students because they have put up a mental block as a result of feeling their teacher does not relate nor care about what they go through. Assumptions about who poverty can affect and that poverty has a face make that teacher less effective as well. the teacher should be knowledgeable about poverty whether he/she teacher in a low-income school or not because at any time a situation could arise where a student’s family could be effected and that student would now come to class totally changed because of the effects of poverty.
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