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Equity Statement

This document outlines the responsibilities of a teacher to provide equitable learning experiences for racially diverse students. The teacher's role is to ensure all students see themselves reflected in the classroom community through inclusive materials and conversations. It is also the teacher's duty to become informed about students' different backgrounds and experiences in order to better relate to each child and address any personal biases. The author provides examples from their teaching experiences incorporating students' cultures into lessons, which increased engagement. Overall, understanding students and their communities helps teachers form connections and be more effective educators for all students.

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Equity Statement

This document outlines the responsibilities of a teacher to provide equitable learning experiences for racially diverse students. The teacher's role is to ensure all students see themselves reflected in the classroom community through inclusive materials and conversations. It is also the teacher's duty to become informed about students' different backgrounds and experiences in order to better relate to each child and address any personal biases. The author provides examples from their teaching experiences incorporating students' cultures into lessons, which increased engagement. Overall, understanding students and their communities helps teachers form connections and be more effective educators for all students.

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Equity Statement

As a teacher of racially diverse students, it is my duty to be aware of my roles and


responsibilities to teach each student. In the classroom, it is my responsibility to make sure that
everyone is included in our classroom community and that everyone sees themselves in our
community. That means that as a teacher, I should have materials, books, and conversations that
are equitable to all students. Students need to see themselves in their learning, which helps them
understand that they are important to the community and our learning. My role is to be someone
who has every person included in the learning process through the books and materials that we
use throughout the day.
It is my role as a teacher to be aware of the different backgrounds that will be coming
into my classroom. Every student has their own story and it is my job to make sure that I am well
informed about my own biases and how I can relate more to each child in their own way. I have
this responsibility to my students to be informed about their experiences by talking to them and
their families, which makes me a better teacher to the racially diverse group of students that I
will be teaching every day.
In past experiences, I have taught students in a racially diverse community in Holt, as
well as Okemos. In Holt, where I did my student teaching, I was in a racially diverse
Kindergarten classroom with students who are black, Asian, and white. I learned so much from
the students and became a better teacher through them. During this internship, I worked with
children who were from all different races, including an English Language Learner from Nepal.
By including parts in our learning that showed her culture, along with other students' culture, I
could tell that they were more engaged. For example, during our read-aloud time, we had books
about people from different parts of Asia (like Nepal), main characters of Asian descent, and a
book about Lunar New Year (Chelsea’s Chinese New Year) during that time. Many of the
students were more inclined to participate more because they saw themselves in the book or
video that I had shown them, meaning that they were learning better than before. I saw this
especially when we read books as a small group or as a class, and many of the students would
read louder when they could connect to the book in their own way.
In Okemos, I have been coaching swimming to children from the ages 6 to 13 for four
years, many of these children from Okemos Public Schools and Holt Public Schools. Being able
to interact with these swimmers and their parents for many years, I have learned more about
them and how I can connect with them more and more after each practice. For example, a
swimmer, who is Indian, has shared about the holidays that she celebrates with our group and
teaches us more about them every time we have our group community time before practices.
Overall, it is the role and responsibility of a teacher to have these conversations with their
students to understand them more, as well as their community. It is their responsibility to be
informed about the community that I teach in so that I can be a better teacher for each student.
Finally, it is also my role to help other students understand all racially diverse groups so that they
are informed in the future. This is a role that teachers cannot go without and must do for each
new group of students, and that is something that I will do for all my students every year.

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