Description
Engage diverse learners in your classroom with culturally responsive instruction!
This second edition includes new or expanded coverage of Latino students, ELLs, immigrant students, race, and racial identity, and new coverage of standards-based, culturally responsive lesson planning and instruction, differentiated instruction, RTI, and the Common Core State Standards. Bonnie Davis helps all educators:
- Tailor instruction to their unique student population
- Reflect on their cultures and how this shapes their views of the world
- Cultivate a deeper understanding of race and racism in the U.S.
- Create culturally responsive instruction
- Understand how culture affects learning
Table of Contents
Foreword by Curtis Linton
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Author
How to Read the Book
Part I. Looking Inside Ourselves
1. Our Culture: The Way We View the World
2. Reflection Questions for Examining Our Inner Selves
3. Exploring Our Racial Identity Through Our Racial History
4. What Is Race?
5. A Day in the Life . . .
Part II. Listening to and Learning From Others
6. What Do We Need to Know About Culturally Diverse Learners?
7. Latino/a/Hispanic Learners: A Personal Story
8. New Immigrant Learners of the Twenty-First Century
9. What the Research Says About Learning Gaps
10. How to Build Relationships With Culturally Diverse Students and Families
11. Creating a School Culture That Welcomes Students, Staff, and Families
Part III. Integrating New Knowledge
12. Strategies to Teach and Engage Culturally Diverse Learners and ELs
13. Moving Students From Apathy to Passion: Learning to Love Reading and Writing
14. Standards-Based, Culturally Responsive Lessons That Engage Learners
15. Readers and Writers Workshop: A Model for Standards-Based, Culturally Responsive Instruction
16. Teachers in Today's Classrooms Share Their Lessons
Part IV. A Call to Action
17. A Call to Action: Sponsoring Academic Student Support Groups
18. A Call to Action: Taking Care of Yourself
References and Resources
Index
