Description
Are you doing all you can to improve teaching and learning?
Culturally proficient instruction is the result of an inside-out journey during which you explore your values and behaviors while evaluating practices of your workplace. In the newest version of their best-selling book, the authors invite you to reflect on how you engage with your students and your colleagues as a community of learners. The third edition includes:
- An updated discussion of standards-based education guidelines
- A conceptual framework for the tools of cultural proficiency
- New language for understanding the microaggressions of dominant cultures
- An integrated guide for use with study groups
Table of Contents
Forewords
Introduction
About the Authors
How to Use This Book
Part I: An Introduction to Cultural Proficiency
1. What Is Cultural Proficiency?
2. The Case for Cultural Proficiency
3. Culturally Proficient Standards
Part II: The Tools of Cultural Proficiency
4. Guiding Principles
5. Barriers to Cultural Proficiency
6. The Cultural Proficiency Continuum
Part III: The Essential Elements
7. Assessing Your Culture
8. Valuing Diversity
9. Managing the Dynamics of Difference
10. Adapting to Diversity
11. Institutionalizing Cultural Knowledge
12. Your Action Plan
References
Index
