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What Every Teacher Should Know About Diverse Learners
Second Edition
- Donna Walker Tileston - Strategic Teaching and Learning, Dallas, TX
Other Titles in:
Learning Styles | Teaching Strategies for Diverse Students | Teaching in Inner Cities
Learning Styles | Teaching Strategies for Diverse Students | Teaching in Inner Cities
August 2010 | 120 pages | Corwin
This second edition of the bestseller presents critical information about teaching diverse learners and demonstrates how teachers can ensure every student's academic success. Updated throughout, the book reflects new data about the brain, the need for a variety of strategies, and the value of using visual and kinesthetic tools. The author provides a teacher's checklist for working with diversity and helps readers consider:
- The impact of factors such as socioeconomic status, race, and ethnicity
- Signs of personal bias involving language, stereotypes, exclusion, and selectivity
- Teaching strategies that focus on the learner's attention, cognition, memory, and self-system
- Setting high expectations for learners.
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Introduction
Vocabulary Pretest
1. Influences
2. How Are We Diverse?
3. Recognizing the Signs of Bias
4. The Road to Closing the Achievement Gap
5. Which Teaching and Learning Strategies Make the Most Difference in Closing the Gap?
6. Working With Diversity: A Teacher?s Checklist
Vocabulary Summary
Vocabulary Posttest
References
Index
"The book provides a root cause analysis of why so many students are failing in America’s public schools. The materials translate research into practice and provides a rich collection of research for instructional strategies."
Gallup McKinley County Schools, NM
Complements well multicultural education topics. And is a good starting point for discussions. Students can read it fast. I used it as first two class sessions discussion starter.
Social Behavioral Science Div, Marist College
October 11, 2011
