Analysis Of White Teacher: I Thought I Could Teach My Black Students

As we have learned in class, teachers attitude matters just as much as the teacher’s knowledge. In “White Teacher: I Thought I Could Teach my Black Students. Then One Told Me Why I Couldn't”, we see the struggle of Brook Cohen, who is more than qualified to teach. Cohen stopped teaching English in Los Angeles Unified School District in order to pursue a PhD. Here he gained access to the best knowledge on how to get the best results in the classroom. But as we learn in his encounter, talking about doing something and then actually executing it in a classroom are very different. The students are unresponsive towards him and his methods, something he was not expecting.
Met with frustrations, Brock Cohen quickly starts to question his decision