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The essential guide for classroom teachers working with urban learners, underprivileged learners, and English language learners to close the achievement gap!

This compact volume offers teachers a comprehensive introduction to the basics of working with diverse learners. Topics include:

Influences--past, present, and future The urban achievement gap: separating fact from fiction and identifying what teachers can do to close the gap Understanding diversity in terms of modalities, socioeconomic status, race/ethnicity, and more Recognizing the signs of bias, including linguistic bias, stereotyping, exclusion, selectivity, and isolation Choosing the teaching strategies that make the most difference, focusing on the learner′s attention, cognition, memory, and self-system Setting high expectations for learners A Teacher′s Checklist for working with diversity in the classroom, school, community, state, and nation Vocabulary pre-test, post-test, and summary Bibliography and Index

Tabla de contenidos provista por Syndetics

• About the Author
• Introduction
• Vocabulary Pre-Test
• 1 Influences
• 2 How Are We Diverse?
• 3 Recognizing the Signs of Bias
• 4 The Road to Closing the Achievement Gap
• 5 Which Teaching and Learning Strategies Make the Most Difference in Closing the Gap?
• 6 Working With Diversity: A Teacher's Checklist
• Vocabulary Summary
• Vocabulary Post-Test
• Bibliography
• Index

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

Donna Walker Tileston is a veteran teacher and administrator. She is currently the president of Strategic Teaching and Learning, a consulting firm that provides services to schools throughout the United States and worldwide. Donna's publications include Ten Best Teaching Practices: How Brain Research, Learning Styles, and Standards Define Teaching Competencies (2000), which has been on Corwin′s bestseller list since its first year in print, in addition to the ten-volume award-winning series What Every Teacher Should Know , now in its second edition. Other recent titles are Teaching Strategies for Active Learning (2006), Teaching Strategies that Prepare Students for High Stakes Tests (2008), and Closing the Poverty and Culture Gap (2009). Donna received her BA from the University of North Texas, her MA from East Texas State University, and her EdD from Texas A & M University-Commerce. She may be reached at www.whateveryteachershouldknow.com