Sara Gordon

Dr. Orr
CIED 1003
1 September 2016
Using Mullins Library to Find Articles
The Impact of Ethnicity, Socioeconomic Status, Language, and Training Program on
Teaching Choice Among New Teachers in California by: Tonika Duren Green, MyLuong
Tran, and Russel Young. Written in Fall 2005
http://0-search.proquest.com.library.uark.edu/docview/222013988?pq-origsite=summon
This article by Tonika Duren Green, MyLuong Tran, and Russel Young describes
the different factors that go into impacting a students education, especially factors
specific to lower socioeconomic, urban areas. The authors debate that the downfalls of
our educational system is due to the lack of diversity among teachers due to the
majority of educators in this country being a white females from middle-class economic
backgrounds. Several different pieces of evidence are used to support this theory
referred to as cultural mismatch between many students and their teachers. All of this
evidence leads up to one questionhow do fix it?
The authors use evidence from students of many different socioeconomic
backgrounds, races, and genders to attempt to prove that many teachers are not able to
relate to their students and be a role model to them due to their cultural discrepancies.
On the other hand, it is the teachers who relate to students coming lower
socioeconomic backgrounds, that are able help these students learn and stay in school
due to being more understanding of their circumstances. Coming all the way down to
the language barriers that come with teaching a bilingual student, the authors attempt to
prove that teachers from a more diverse racial and economic background know the
short-comings of education system and might have a better idea on how to reach the
students. The authors emphasize that it is the lack of cultural understanding between
teacher and student which causes the major disconnect, but with programs such as
CLAD (Cross-Cultural Language and Academic Development) and BCLAD (Bilingual
Cross-Culture Language and Academic Development), schools are hoping to bridge the
gap between teachers and students.
Extra Credit
A Study of Teacher Training in the United States and Europe by: Francis Ries,
Christina Yanes Cabrera, Ricardo Gonzalez Carriedo. Published in April 2016.
http://0search.proquest.com.library.uark.edu/docview/1805460838/fulltextPDF/CE53877EEAB
24B0DPQ/1?accountid=8361
A Study of Teacher Training in the United States and Europe by: Francis Ries,
Christina Yanes Cabrera, and Ricardo Gonzalez Carriedo explores the different ways
countries across the world produce the educators that will shape our next generations

minds. With the world constantly changing, so does the procedures and techniques in
the field of education. The No Child Left Behind Act, for example, has changed the face
of education in the United States completely. Hill and Barth state that this act shines a
new light on teacher competence and links it directly to the performance of the students.
While in other parts of the world, such as varies European countries, different
approaches are taken.
The European Union is also taking steps to better change the process to become
an educator, such as with the European Higher Education Area. Depending on the
location, the qualifications to become an educator are completely different. Other factors
such as salary differ as well. If you compare the salary for educators in the United
States to those in Luxembourg, the salary fluctuates so much that it can completely
change the economic class you are in depending on where you are teaching. Although
different countries prepare our next educators differently, one thing remains the same
the constant bettering of teachers in order to benefit students.