Why Culture Counts: Teaching Children in Poverty
- ISBN-10
- 1934009792
- ISBN-13
- 9781934009796
- Category
- Education / Teaching Methods & Materials / General
- Pages
- 80
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011-04-01
- Publisher
- Solution Tree Press
- Authors
- Donna Walker-Tileston, Sandra Darling
Description
Learn a four-step research-based program for differentiating instruction based on the cultural needs, beliefs, and values of diverse learners. The authors show you how to build teacher background knowledge; plan for differentiation; and differentiate context, content, process, product, and assessment. This book provides an opportunity for the education community to engage students at risk whom our schools have often failed.
Get the book
Similar books
-
Culture Counts: A Concise Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
By Serena Nanda, Richard L. Warms... of students come from the wealthiest 25 percent of American families (Giancola and Kahlenberg 2016). Thus, family wealth plays a critical role in accessing knowledge and is a powerful predictor of future wealth and social position.
-
Culture Counts: Faith and Feeling in a World Besieged
By Roger ScrutonFaith and Feeling in a World Besieged Roger Scruton ... The wisdom of roger scruton's judgments and the elegance of his prose are themselves powerful evidence for the truth of his thesis. Bravo. LEON R. KASS Harding Professor, ...
-
Culture Counts: Changing Power Relations in Education
By Ted Glynn, Russell BishopThis is a study of the experience of Maori people in the school system and the pedagogical response.
-
Making Culture Count: The Politics of Cultural Measurement
By Emma Blomkamp, Lachlan MacDowall, Marnie BadhamCNN (Creative Communities Network) (2012) Cultural Indicators: Measuring Impact on Culture, Information Paper prepared ... and wellbeing of a community', Community QualityofLife Indicators: Best Cases V (Springer: Netherlands), 319–338.
-
Cultural Anthropology
By Serena Nanda, Richard L. WarmsThis is a mainstream comprehensive cultural anthropology text with a balanced theoretical perspective.
-
Why Calories Count: From Science to Politics
By Marion Nestle, Malden NesheimThey are also hard to understand. In Why Calories Count, Marion Nestle and Malden Nesheim explain in clear and accessible language what calories are and how they work, both biologically and politically.
-
Shattering Culture: American Medicine Responds to Cultural Diversity
By Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, Sarah S. Willen, Seth Donal HannahElizabeth Carpenter-Song looks at positive doctor-patient relationships in mental health care settings and finds that the most successful of these are based on mutual "recognition"—patients who can express their concerns and clinicians ...
-
Intelligence and how to Get it: Why Schools and Cultures Count
By Richard E. NisbettNisbett debunks the myth of genetic inheritance of intelligence and persuasively demonstrates how intelligence can be enhanced: the anti-Bell Curve book.--From publisher description.
-
Culture Counts: A Concise Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
By Serena Nanda, Richard WarmsThe text focuses on how culture helps direct and explain peoples' behavior; why this is important for understanding what is going on in the world today, and how we can solve problems and effect positive change.
-
Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945
By George J. SánchezIn this pioneering study, Sanchez explores how Mexican immigrants "Americanized" themselves in order to fit in, thereby losing part of their own culture.