Webinar: Disrupting poverty

Dealing with poor children is something that every successful teacher must learn about. This webinar which is titled '' Disrupting poverty: five powerful classroom practices'' highlighted several important ways for dealing with poor children. First, Ms. Kathleen Budge and Mr. William Parrett explained about the techniques and steps that teachers teaching students from poor economic status can use to help their students overcome these issues. They included: Cultivating caring relationships, holding high expectations ( this is a must because people assume that individuals in poverty are unmotivated and have a weak work ethics and they're not as smart as people who aren't poor), committing to equity, taking professional accountability for learning, mustering the courage and will to take action. One of the basic needs of students who live in poor conditions is to be given care and attention. This will increase student effort and engagement and improve their academic achievement. Also, they need hope, so it's important for a teacher to give those students hope and let them see their future by asking them about their aspirations, make suggestions based on students interests and strength and tell them you believe on them. Moreover, it's very important to let those students work collaboratively with other ones to avoid letting them feel inferior. That's why, for a teacher to be successful, she needs to take all of these points into consideration and she shouldn't forget that poor children have the right to learn just like other ones.