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Teachers today have classrooms that contain children from all areas of life. While it does not matter if a child is from a higher economic of working class background on the surface, it does make a difference in the resources they will have available to them.

There is one huge resource that teachers who have classrooms with working class children should make sure to try and take advantage of in their classroom dialogue. That resource is the library which allows students to benefit from a great education and learning experience, even if they do not have families with large incomes.

First of all, teachers should see if they can coordinate a time with the school library or local library, so that their students may borrow books that other students families may be able to purchase for them. The teacher should let the students know that the library is a great resource for borrowing books, and learning time on a computer. While some families may have home computers, many working class children don’t have computers in the home. In today’s world it is vital to be computer literate and students will be able to practice their skills on computers at the library.

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