For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood... and the Rest of Y'all Too: Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education (Race, Education, and Democracy)

by Christopher Emdin

Given the responsibilities the students now have (that the teachers previously had), the teacher has to provide them with the same resources that other teachers have when teaching. This means that the teacher has to provide the students who are coteaching with previous lesson plans, teacher manuals, websites the teacher gathers resources from, and any other teacher materials that are used to supplement instruction. Once these materials are shared with students, they are given the full responsibility of teaching and are then graded by the teacher on the quality of their lesson plans and criteria that the teacher is usually assessed on. Rather than grading students for tasks like homework assignments and tests, the reality-pedagogy coteaching model assesses their content knowledge through how they design and teach their lessons.