Color Blindness Chapter Summary

Teachers today have to be prepared for culturally diverse classrooms, opportunity gaps, and the home life their students are coming from. Teachers must be educated themselves, on what to expect, and how to be able to teach, and make a difference, with different obstacles in the student’s way. It should be the teacher’s job to facilitate the students, with whatever means necessary, to help them better themselves academically. The purpose this book can serve is to help educators see through other educators eyes, into their experiences. It is to help educators know what is out there, what to expect, and how to react. In the first chapter, Milner outlines his conceptual framework, which he uses for analysis in certain situations. The first subject in his framework is “colorblindness.” It talks about how teachers need to realize that race is still a prominent issue in education. Milner talks about confronting the ideas of race in the classroom, and understanding cultural, and social barriers the students face. The second subject is “cultural conflicts,” regarding the culture gap between students and …show more content…
Mr. Hall, Mr. Jackson, Dr. Johnson, and Ms. Shaw. Mr. Hall (Milner 47) a White male Science teacher in his twenties who teaches in a diversely urban middle school. Mr. Hall was diversely blind, he treated all the students the exact same, and he was there to teach science. There was an incident, then the students called him racist. This event triggered him to learn more about his students, to understand them. Mr. Hall started to build a personal relationship with his students, he told them about him, so that they could connect with him. At first, Mr. Hall was color-blind to the fact that how important race, and the student’s culture, affected how they viewed him. From Mr. Hall’s story you can learn to be culturally aware, and how important it is to build rapport with your