With that said, I can’t actually say one way or another based on my own experiences because I haven’t had many black or Hispanic teachers. Now that I think about it, I think I’ve only had one black teacher, and that was in college. The only teachers I’ve had who are Hispanic were Spanish teachers. As a whole, their cultural upbringing DID affect their teaching methods, and I thoroughly enjoyed their perspective. They taught with love and lots of common sense. I don’t think it fair to say anything about my black professor since she’s the only one I’ve had. As for my white teachers, there’s too big a variety of personalities and teaching methods to pinpoint anything.

So, even though I think you posed a great question, I personally couldn’t draw any sort of real conclusions from my own experiences.

Often, younger Humans will find offense when confronted by the consequences of their words. Though they may belong to this “Human” race, they seem to enjoy aggravating their peers. Poking, prodding, and aggravating get confused with intellectual discussion.

One of their most used techniques is to brand those who disagree as ignorant or immature. It’s interesting how they ask about what “makes teachers more sensative (sic) to the needs of students”, when they personally demonstrate a high level of insensitivity to mature responses. To those students, I can only hope they find the humanity in themselves, someday.

As far as the “motherly” approach, those are usually the female members of the species, though those qualities should cross all gender boundaries.

Just a thought: Can we all just get along?

I don’t think that race has anything to do with how a person teaches.

I think it has to do with their passion for wanting students to learn and being able to help their students learn and how good they feel when they know that they made a difference in their students lives.

Yes there are many teachers who definitely should not be teaching but that’s because of their lack of love for teaching, their horrible attitudes, their dislike for students, and the fact that they just don’t care among many other personal reasons.

To me race shouldn’t be a factor in who’s a better teacher but who really loves to teach.

You need to really think about what you are asking….if a teacher cares about her students grasping knowledge, shows a passion for teaching, abides by federal guidelines, then who cares about the color of their skin. The motherly or “fatherly” figures(because their are male teachers as well) that you are refering to, makes no sense, because parents should be providing that. Sweetie, all teachers no matter what color, should render the same respect and guidance for our children and if you care about color so much, then that speaks about what kind of individual and citizen you are. Get a clue.

How about the nice teachers are nice, and the not-so-nice ones, aren’t?

People should, after all, only be judged by their actions, not by the color of their skin or where they came from, or whether they put the toilet seat up or down…

People are individuals. If you try to look for easy answers and pidgeon-hole everyone into neat categories, you are going to serioulsy complicate your life — not to mention, miss out on the joy of getting to know people who don’t conform to your stereotypes!

All that you name are good teachers. Being a good teacher has nothing to with ethnicity, religious affiliation or gender orientation. It has to do with being passionate about your job and caring about the students in your class.

I teach with white, black, Hispanic, Arabic and Asian teachers. Every single one of them is devoted to his/her job and students. I don’t see the colour of their skin or their ethnic background. I see a teacher.

Pricey, yes, but if you look into it enough, you can find a way to be cheap…. This not you answer, that’s cool. let me ask you, did you pray for God’s help yet? If not, do it. HE wants to help YOU!! My son and I prayed for his class..unruly lot.. waiting to see outcome.