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Building culturally responsive classrooms : a guide for K-6 teachers / Concha Delgado Gaitan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Delgado-Gaitan, Concha.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Multicultural education.
- Multiculturalism--Study and teaching (Elementary).
- Multiculturalism.
- Classroom management.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 166 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Corwin Press, [2006]
- Summary:
- Teachers today are faced with the enormous responsibility of respecting students' various cultures while creating learning settings that challenge them academically. Concha Delgado Gaitan shows how teachers honoring real culture can transform the context and content within their classroom and become culturally responsive to all their students. This invaluable resource covers the topics of classroom discipline, classroom arrangement, and parent and community involvement in order to create a culturally inclusive learning setting. In addition, Gaitan explains how teachers can use instructional strategies that are culturally responsive to teach literacy, mathematics, science, and more.
- Based on the author's firsthand research, this handbook is ideal for individual teachers, mentoring pairs, and study groups.
- Contents:
- 1: Context: configuring the classroom for academic equity
- Engaging with children's values around cooperation and competition
- Culturally responsive classroom discipline
- Accelerating exceptional students from all linguistic and cultural groups
- Including students with special needs in the culturally responsive classroom
- Culturally responsive classroom management
- Supporting children's cultural adjustment
- Connecting home and school
- Content: learning subject matter through culture in the classroom
- Teaching cultural diversity
- Becoming proficient in English
- Building literacy
- Creating equity in math and science
- Fostering gender equity
- Crafting an interdisciplinary curriculum
- Responding culturally in teaching.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-162) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1412926181
- 141292619X
- OCLC:
- 62281806
- Publisher Number:
- 9781412926195
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