Ethnic Student Survey

The study conducted here use student interviews and a student survey to collect the data necessary to explore and find out the importance of the ethnic background in teaching. This is should be of great concerns for teacher the ethnicity of students and teacher has either have a positive or negative affect on the students learning process. The studies of “Analysis of Perceptions of Asian-American and Hispanic-American teachers and their students in teacher interpersonal communication style” authored by Perry J den Brok, Jack Levy, Rely Rodriguez, and Theo Wubbles (2002) and “Analysis of Notes from the Back of the Room: Problems and Paradoxes in the Schooling of Young Black Students” by Karolyn Tyson (2003) clearly identified that ethnicity

There are a few percentages of Caucasian and African American. Under the Hispanic ethnicity the students background identifies as follows: Mexican-American, Mexican, and Puerto Rican. Students through the survey stated that Filipino teachers spoken English pronunciation is below the proficient level causing confusion among the students. All Filipino teachers taught math courses Algebra, Geometry, Pre-Calculus, and Calculus. Students mentioned that teachers have the knowledge of the there math subject matter: however their limited language skills prevent them to teach the math concepts clearly.

A Hispanic teacher preferably among students was higher than Caucasian and Filipino teachers. After, studying the data collected from the survey results it was evident that students from the group being studied express that having a Hispanic teacher is important to them. The reason for that is that they feel more open to talk to their teacher since it shares their same ethnicity and culture. Across the board the pattern that is was discover is that

The following table 1 shows the statistics collected from the date method of the student survey. The letter s is students. The numbers are just showing the level of preference of the students. This data collection tool was effective to determine the students comfort level with each of the different ethnic groups teacher found at the high school: Caucasian, Hispanic, and Filipino teachers.

Table 1 Survey