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Pathways To Success in School - Culturally Responsive Teaching (Hardcover)
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Pathways To Success in School - Culturally Responsive Teaching (Hardcover)
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This text is designed to help preservice and in-service teachers
identify pathways to productive teaching and learning for students
from culturally and experientially diverse backgrounds. To better
serve an increasingly diverse population, teachers need to be
competent in selecting and developing culturally responsive
curricula and instructional approaches that better facilitate
learning for all students. They must be able to attend to diversity
within and across cultural groups, and validate students' cultural
knowledge acquired outside the classroom. To provide equitable
access to learning, they must be able to strategically select or
develop instructional approaches that build upon their students'
learning propensities, cognitive schemata, experiential
backgrounds, and perceptions. The chapter authors in this text
present ways of understanding ones' own thinking (metacognition),
and ways of thinking about teaching and learning situations and
constructing productive strategies. The reader is engaged in:
Learning about the context in which he or she will practice,
Understanding key aspects of student's cultural and experiential
background and learning preferences, Exploring ways to bring these
factors together in framing and selecting meaningful curriculum
content and learning experiences. The volume is organized into
three interrelated sections: Part I presents two approaches to
becoming a competent practitioner; Part II offers approaches to
developing and using culturally relevant pedagogy; Part III
addresses curriculum content and design. Helpful pedagogical
features are included to facilitate its use as a textbook: Each of
the three main parts begins with an overview that provides an
introduction and summary of the main ideas addressed and the
relationship among ideas presented by different authors; each
chapter opens with focus questions and concludes with suggested
learning experiences; chapter-end refe
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