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Updated Edition of Bestseller

What Every Teacher Should Know About Diverse Learners

Second Edition
By: Donna E. Walker Tileston

Innovative strategies to reach all the learners in your class!

Updated throughout, this new edition assimilates new data about how the brain processes information and provides tools for understanding and working with diverse students, including a cultural proficiency checklist, a vocabulary pretest and posttest, and a vocabulary summary. Tileston explores:

  • Brain-compatible teaching strategies that engage students from diverse racial, ethnic, socioeconomic, language, and special needs backgrounds
  • Signs of bias to avoid in the classroom, including stereotypes, exclusion, selectivity, and more
  • How culture affects learning styles 
  • Updated research on teaching children in poverty
  • Guidelines for working with English language learners

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Product Details
  • Grade Level: K-12
  • ISBN: 9781412971751
  • Published By: Corwin
  • Year: 2010
  • Page Count: 120
  • Publication date: June 04, 2010
Price: $24.95
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Description

Description

"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 provide a rich collection of data for instructional strategies."
—Mary Reeve, Director, Services for Exceptional Students
Gallup McKinley County Schools, NM

Innovative, research-based strategies to reach all the learners in your class!

This second edition of the best-selling volume in the What Every Teacher Should Know series presents critical information about teaching learners from diverse racial, ethnic, socioeconomic, language, ability, and special needs backgrounds.

Updated throughout, this essential guide assimilates new data about how the brain processes information and provides tools for understanding and working with diverse students, including a cultural proficiency checklist, a vocabulary pretest and posttest, and a vocabulary summary. Donna Walker Tileston explores:

  • Brain-compatible teaching strategies that engage diverse learners
  • Signs of bias to avoid in the classroom, including stereotypes, exclusion, selectivity, and more
  • How culture affects learning styles
  • Updated research on teaching children in poverty
  • Guidelines for working with English language learners

What Every Teacher Should Know About Diverse Learners shows teachers how to set high expectations for all students and facilitate their progress in fulfilling those expectations.

Author(s)

Author(s)

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Donna E. Walker Tileston

Donna Walker Tileston is a veteran teacher and administrator. She is currently the president of Strategic Teaching and Learning, a consulting firm that provides services to schools throughout the United States and worldwide. Donna’s publications include Ten Best Teaching Practices: How Brain Research, Learning Styles, and Standards Define Teaching Competencies (2000), which has been on Corwin's bestseller list since its first year in print, in addition to the ten-volume award-winning series What Every Teacher Should Know, now in its second edition. Other recent titles are Teaching Strategies for Active Learning (2006), Teaching Strategies that Prepare Students for High Stakes Tests (2008), and Closing the Poverty and Culture Gap (2009). Donna received her BA from the University of North Texas, her MA from East Texas State University, and her EdD from Texas A & M University-Commerce. She may be reached at www.whateveryteachershouldknow.com

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments


About the Author


Introduction


Vocabulary Pretest


1. Influences

A Few Definitions to Consider

Back to the Future

What Are the Issues Now?

2. How Are We Diverse?

Why Is It Important to Examine Differences?

Cultural Diversity

Diversity of Modalities

Diversity of Socioeconomic Status

Diversity of Race/Ethnicity

3. Recognizing the Signs of Bias

Linguistic Bias

Stereotyping

Exclusion

Unreality

Selectivity

Isolation

4. The Road to Closing the Achievement Gap

The Urban Achievement Gap: Fact Versus Fiction

What Can Teachers Do?

5. Which Teaching and Learning Strategies Make the Most Difference in Closing the Gap?

What Is a Best Practice?

High Expectations: Why They Matter

The Role of the Self-System in Learning

We Have Their Attention--Now What?

General Ideas for Cognition

Some Additional Thoughts

How Do We Deal With Language Acquisition Skills?

6. Working With Diversity: A Teacher?s Checklist

Vocabulary Summary


Vocabulary Posttest


References


Index


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