Building on Student Diversity: Profiles and Activities
- ISBN-10
- 1412936934
- ISBN-13
- 9781412936934
- Category
- Education
- Pages
- 230
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007
- Publisher
- SAGE
- Authors
- Joy R. Cowdery, Linda E. Morrow, Vicki A. Wilson
Description
Addressed to teachers learning about children with diverse backgrounds and abilities, offers a set of biographies and simulated files of six students at three educational levels and practical activities that can be used with the biographies and files to s
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