What Every Teacher Should Know About Diverse Learners
- Donna Walker Tileston - Strategic Teaching and Learning, Dallas, TX
- 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.
"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."
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.