Productive Teaching Term Paper

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subtle effects that cultural differences can have on instruction. The author began with a review of the literature, and then demonstrated how some cultural assumptions, such as the "quiet Native American," were based on the fact that Native American children respond differently to culturally different teachers than they do teachers from their own culture. He also cited intriguing research suggesting that coming from the same culture was more important than training and that students learned better when taught by teachers from their own culture.


He then went on to describe how these factors affected Yup'ik children in Alaska. He used videotapes to film a Yup'ik teacher and a non-Yup'ik teacher as they taught Yup'ik students. Even though the author was sensitive to the cultural differences, he did not understand why the Yup'ik teacher did some things, and why they were effective, until the Yup'ik teacher explained his methods to him.

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