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Worthy Of Trust

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Myra Munroe
Education 311
Article reflection 5
Topic: Creating urban classroom communities worthy of trust
April 9, 2017
TEP outcome 4. Creating and maintaining effective learning environments for ALL students

For this reflection, I chose TEP 4 and found the article Creating urban classroom communities worthy of trust. With all the negative we are reading about urban schools I felt that this might shed some light on the problems and possible ways to fix them.
The article talks about building trust. Trust can be defined in one of two ways. The first as “a belief or confidence in the honesty, integrity, reliability, and justice of another person’ and second “to hope for.” (Webster’s New World Dictionary (Guralnik 1996: 1527) (Ennis, McCauley …show more content…

First, most of the enrolled students have a higher likelihood of being either African American or Hispanic students coming from the low to poor income bracket and bringing with them a whole different set of problems such as insecurity within the family, unattended health issues and language barriers. This coupled with discipline issues, pregnancy lead most researchers to believe these are the reasons that students cannot or do not learn. (150) The prospects of change seem slim when you consider these things together, but can change be effectively used to increase trust and decrease the growing stereotype we see in urban schools?
Trust is learned from a young age but if not brought to light in a positive nature, an untrustworthiness grows which hampers their further development when they reach school age. Schools are where students first learn to build outside trust by making friends and trusting teachers to do what is right. (151) Schools have an obligation to teach students the moral concept of right and wrong and how to build trustworthiness and trust of …show more content…

The idea is to use positive interactions with adults which they may not be accustomed to outside of school. They found that most of the disruptive and at risk students do not have positive adult interactions with which to compare how they are supposed to react. On teacher used a model that included building from the students’ skills. By having them lead classes she was giving them the opportunity to earn and build trust by saying I trust you enough to let you do this for me and your classmates. (162) Other teachers found that they could build trust by allowing troubled or at risk students help with policy making encouraging them to put their own ideas into play to create the finished project.

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