slide 4 in views of poverty

Teachers and future teachers tend to have negative views of poverty, seeing it as detrimental to a child's education. They often hold stereotypes about students in poverty, describing them as loud, rebellious, and irresponsible. Unsuccessful teachers blame the child for their behavior, while successful teachers create a loving and caring environment. These negative views can impact how teachers perform in their profession. Student teachers are worried about recognizing students in poverty, as poverty is not always visible. It's important to challenge these stereotypes and support students in poverty who value education and can succeed. Hello my name is Jessica Klein and I will be going over the part of our view on poverty. Now while I was searching for information about our views on poverty I specifically focused on teachers views and student teacher views because they're going to be future teachers. So I wanted to focus mainly on teachers views on poverty. Overall poverty views tend to be very negative but poverty is something that's dynamic and multi-dimensional. It's very complex to understand because so many different things factor into that. Views over poverty changes over time and what we consider to be poverty will change over time as well. So as our world is ever evolving and changing so will poverty. Most teachers and future teachers believe that poverty is detrimental to a child's education and many teachers hold deficit views about learner diversity, society, and associated roles of schools. So most teachers also believe that children in poverty to be disadvantaged to their education which a lot of teachers do believe this and I see it even today in the school that I'm working with. So on this slide I focused on our view of poverty focusing on what were the most typical words that teachers used to describe their students and these were the most common words that they used to describe their students that are living in poverty. They described them as loud, rebellious, show-off, stubborn, sulky, touchy, dissatisfied, distrustful, irresponsible, prejudiced, indifferent, outspoken, talkative, temperamental, withdrawn, fussy, invasive, curious, and argumentative. Now are all students going to show these different qualities? No. That is part of the stereotype that comes along with the students living in poverty. Not all students living in poverty are going to act like this. Some students you wouldn't even know that they were living in poverty by the way they were acting. So next we were going to discuss the stereotypes of poverty which we run into that a lot in the teaching field because there is a lot of stereotypical things that teachers believe about their poverty-stricken students. I also wanted to touch base on how teachers feel while they're dealing with these students from poverty because as you saw in the previous slide they are dealing with a wide variety of unwanted behaviors and so teachers have a tendency to feel very irritated and frustrated at times with these specific students. So I also went into different things that you can look at that unsuccessful teachers do while working with students in poverty and what successful teachers will do while working with students with poverty. So some of our unsuccessful teachers will use the terminology dependent, indifferent, inhibited, nervous, sliphod, sulky, and unstable. And these teachers are basically making a notion that there is something wrong with this child whether it be there's something wrong developmentally, they're sick or crippled. Basically they're just saying there's something wrong with the child and that's why they are acting the way they are and why they aren't learning which is completely incorrect. You never blame a child for something being wrong with them. The successful teachers will be affectionate, friendly, talkative, they will carry notes of benevolence and kindness to children. These teachers are more sympathetic towards their students, they're more understanding, they're not trying to blame something is wrong with the student, they're not placing any blame on anyone honestly, they're just trying to focus on giving the student a loving and caring environment so that way they may flourish and learn at the best capability that they can. So in this slide we're going over the typical poverty stereotypes that teachers and student teachers hold and most of them are extremely negative. They hold negative views about the families that are living in poverty, they're holding negative views towards the students, and these future teachers by holding these negative views before they even become teachers will create an effect how they are going to be in the future for in their profession and in their practice. So it's very important to try to nip these in the butt early on and that way we can better create better teachers for our future. And some of the stereotypes that teachers view is a child that's living in poverty is most likely going to fail because they're at a disadvantage of being in the school because they're living in poverty. They don't have all the essentials that they need to succeed like the other typical students. Another thing I noticed was the student teachers did acknowledge that anybody at any point in time in their lives can be affected directly or indirectly by poverty. So I thought that was very nice that I did read about that. However the student teachers also voiced that about 28% of them were worried that they would not be able to recognize their students that are living in poverty because they don't truly know the signs because poverty isn't something that you physically see typically. It's how someone's living or like their income that they're making. A lot of the student teachers focused on believing that poverty was derived from economic sources like their income is too low or something like that. So I thought that was very interesting and I kind of wanted to touch base on the stereotypes of the teachers and student teachers just because this was something I didn't realize that there was so much negative negativity about the poverty and it is very stereotypical to sit there and believe that hey if you're living in poverty you're going to be disadvantaged because that's not true. Not all students are disadvantaged. Some students place great value on their education so they will succeed. So they can break from this generation of generation of living in poverty. So this is a very big stereotype and this is something I felt was very important to touch on. So I hope you found this information very informal and I hope you enjoyed it and thank you for listening.