What every teacher should know about diverse learners / Donna Walker Tileston.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tileston, Donna Walker.

Series:

Gale eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Multicultural education--United States--History.

Multicultural education.

Minorities--Education--United States--History.

Minorities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 101 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Thousand Oaks, California : Corwin, [2010]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This second edition of the best-selling volume in the 'What Every Teacher Should Know' series presents critical information about teaching learners from diverse racial, ethnic, socio-economic, language, ability, and special needs backgrounds. Updated throughout, this guide assimilates new data about how the brain processes information and provides tools for understanding and working with diverse students, including a cultural proficiency checklist, a vocabulary pre-test and post-test, and a vocabulary summary.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; About the Author; Introduction; Vocabulary Pretest; Chapter 1 - Influences; A Few Definitions to Consider; Back to the Future; What are the Issues Now?; Chapter 2 - How are We Diverse?; Why is it Important to Examine Differences?; Cultural Diversity; Diversity of Modalities; Diversity of Socioeconomic Status; Diversity of Race/Ethnicity; Chapter 3 - Recognizing the Signs of Bias; Linguistic Bias; Stereotyping; Exclusion; Unreality; Selectivity; Isolation; Chapter 4 - The Road to Closing the Achievement Gap; The Urban Achievement Gap: Fact Versus Fiction

What can Teachers Do?Chapter 5 - Which Teaching and Learning Strategies Make the Most Difference in Closing the Gap?; What is a Best Practice?; High Expectations: Why They Matter; The Role of the Self-System in Learning; We Have Their Attention-Now What?; General Ideas for Cognition; Some Additional Thoughts; How Do We Deal with Language Acquisition Skills?; Chapter 6 - Working with Diversity: A Teacher's Checklist; Vocabulary Summary; Vocabulary Posttest; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781452296241

1452296243

9781452298894

1452298890

9781483387260

1483387267

OCLC:

900732778