This popular book investigates the teaching, instruction and curricula required to meet the needs of diverse learners who by virtue of their experiential, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds, challenge traditional curriculum and instructional programs. It provides a summary of the characteristics of students with diverse learning and curricular needs as well as an essential examination of current issues in education. It also introduces six key principles to direct teachers through the design of instruction and curriculum to ensure that diverse learners succeed in the classroom. Characteristics of Students with Diverse Learning and Curricular Needs; Effective Strategies for Teaching Beginning Reading; Effective Strategies for Teaching Writing; Effective Strategies for Teaching Mathematics; Effective Strategies for Teaching Science; Effective Strategies for Teaching Social Studies; Modulating Instruction for English-language Learners; Contextual Issues and Their Influence on Curricular Change. For teachers of diverse learners.
Strategies for Success in Diverse and Inclusive Classrooms Deborah L. Voltz, Michele Jean Sims, Betty Nelson. Dryfoos, J. G. (2008). ... Educational Leadership, 65(7), 38–43. ... Doing multicultural education for achievement and equity.
The book also has a broad emphasis on diversity, with a section in each chapter devoted to exploring how instructional strategies can be modified to accommodate diverse exceptional students.
... it has also been adopted by UNESCO, suggesting its global acceptance. Banks, J.A. (2006). Cultural diversity and education: Foundations, curriculum, and teaching. Boston: Pearson, p. 115. Ibid. Banks (2006), op. cit., p. 3.
Covering cultural and linguistic diversity as well as special educational needs, this guide helps teachers set up an inclusive classroom; adapt curriculum, instruction, and assessment; and more.
This bestselling text has been extensively revised to include expanded coverage of student ethnic groups: African and Latino Americans as well as Asian and Native Americans as well as new material on culturally diverse communication, ...
Organized around a comprehensive model of teaching that includes foundations, planning, implementation, and evaluation components, the strategies addressed in this volume are common to instruction in K-8 classrooms.
Based on up-to-date research and proven methodology, provides a variety of strategies to differentiate curriculum and enhance learning in the classroom.
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, socioeconomic, language, ability, and special needs backgrounds.
" -Steve Hutton, Educational Consultant, Highly Skilled Educator Program Kentucky Department of Education "This book is a wonderful contribution to the field.
The untold story of the root cause of America's education crisis--and the seemingly endless cycle of multigenerational poverty.