EDU101.002Ch2RacialEthnicDiversity

In chapter 2 of __The Joy of Teaching__ by Gene E. Hall, Linda F. Quinn, Donna M. Gollnick, the authors discuss the regional ethnical and racial differences in schools across the nation and how it affects the teachers. The country is broken up into many different regions, for example to the north eastern schools are predominantly white while schools in Washington D.C. are predominantly African American. This affects the teachers because 85% of teachers nationwide are white, so they have to cross an ethnic and racial boarder to relate to their students. In this chapter the authors predict that with time the barrier will grow even stronger because they majority of students will change from white to Latinos. This will pose an obstacle for teachers to overcome when relating to their students in the near future.