M Discussion Week - Responding to Inequitable Practices as a SupervisorReview the Guidelines for Online 5340

Differentiated Supervision ELAD 540

Question.5340 - M7: Discussion Week 7 - Responding to Inequitable Practices as a SupervisorReview the Guidelines for Online Discussions and the discussion rubric before posting.Week 7 Discussion PromptRead both case studies below and respond to the prompts. Case Study 1You are supervising in a school where the student body is drawn from a low-income Latino and Black community and the teaching staff is primarily white and middle-income. You are working with one teacher who you have heard talk disparagingly about their students and students' parents to other colleagues. This teacher repeatedly complains that parents do not care about their child's education and that they are too lazy to get their children to school on time. When you observed in this teacher's classroom, you heard a student ask if the teacher lived in the neighborhood. The teacher replied, "No way! I do NOT live around here."Prompts: What is the equity issue here? How does this equity issue relate to aspects of a teacher's practice, based on Danielson's 4 domains (planning and preparation, classroom environment, instruction, professional responsibilities)? How would you respond as the supervisor in this situation? Would you do nothing, interrupt (recognize it as problematic and move on), or engage (critically work on the situation)? Explain your decision, describe what you would do, and explore the pros and cons of your approach.Case Study 2You are a supervisor in a suburban school district where the students are primarily white and middle-income. The teaching staff is also primarily white. The students perform well on state standardized tests and parents are pleased with the school. In your observations of teachers, you notice that issues of inequality and equity are rarely introduced. In the cafeteria and classrooms, you have heard students express the belief that everyone in the United States has an equal opportunity and that educational and professional success is purely based on hard work and merit. The social studies and ELA departments can choose their materials and have elected to use the same American history textbook for the last ten years. You recently saw that one page described people who were enslaved as âworkers." [Note: This case study is based on a real textbook recently used in US schoolsLinks to an external site.. The textbook is not outdated from another era; it is a current reflection of how racism and white privilege infiltrate our education system.]Prompts: What is the equity issue here? How does this equity issue relate to aspects of a teacher's practice, based on Danielson's 4 domains (planning and preparation, classroom environment, instruction, professional responsibilities)? How would you respond as the supervisor in this situation? Would you do nothing, interrupt (recognize it as problematic and move on), or engage (critically work on the situation)? Explain your decision, describe what you would do, and explore the pros and cons of your approach.

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