Strategies and Lessons for Culturally Responsive Teaching

Description

Preface

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Preparing to Become a Culturally Responsive Teacher

Chapter 3: Lessons and Strategies for Building the Classroom-As-Community

Chapter 4: Lessons and Strategies for Increasing Knowledge About Diversity

Chapter 5: Lessons and Strategies for Reducing Prejudice

Chapter 6: Lessons and Strategies for Addressing Diversity and the Needs of English Language Learners

Chapter 7: Lessons and Strategies for Increasing Global Perspectives

Teacher Resources

• Contains over forty culturally responsive lessons and teaching strategies, offering students diverse, activity-oriented approaches for becoming culturally competent.
• Includes an inside cover matrix, organized by chapter, that identifies the content area, grade level, and teaching principles for each lesson, to help students identify the key components in multicultural education.  
• Maintains a consistent chapter organization: a vignette related to the theme; examples of pertinent current research; guiding principles linked to the chapter theme along with classroom applications of each principle; detailed lesson plans and units of instruction; and abbreviations that indicate standards established by the major professional organizations.
• Includes a “Links” section following the lessons, which contains thought-provoking questions to assist teachers with review and reflection on the chapter’s content.
• Provides a Teacher Resources section at the end of the book, containing a key to National Standards Issued by Professional Organizations Representing Major Disciplines, the INTASC Principles, Howard Gardner’s nine intelligences, and Benjamin Bloom’s Taxonomy of Educational Objectives (1971), to better prepare future teachers with the tools to understanding their students and learning.

Roselle K. Chartock, Ed.D., is professor of education at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts in North Adams, MA. Prior to teaching on the college level, Dr. Chartock taught high school history and before that middle and elementary school. She is the author/editor of Educational Foundations: An Anthology (2^nd Edition, Merrill Prentice Hall, 2004), and co-editor of Can It Happen: Chronicles of the Holocaust (Black Dog and Leventhal, 2001), as well as author of several journal articles on subjects ranging from interdisciplinary approaches to curriculum development to incorporating art and music across the curriculum. At the heart of all of her publications is the goal of preparing culturally responsive teachers. Dr. Chartock resides in Great Barrington, MA with her husband, Alan.

This primer offers a starting point for teachers who want to engage in culturally responsive practice to ensure meaningful learning for all their students.

Inspire your K-12 students to make a difference in their schools, communities, and the world with over forty highly-motivating, culturally responsive lessons and teaching strategies.  This brief handbook offers teachers a variety of interdisciplinary, classroom-tested strategies and activity-oriented approaches for becoming culturally competent. Adaptable to all grade levels and subject specialties, the content and strategies presented are grounded in theories developed by researchers and practitioners who have been actively teaching and writing about multicultural education and related fields. Use the inside cover matrix to quickly identify the content area, grade level, and teaching principles for each lesson by chapter.

Features

·        Over forty culturally responsive lessons and teaching strategies offer students diverse, activity-oriented approaches for becoming culturally competent.

·        An inside cover matrix, organized by chapter, identifies the content area, grade level, and teaching principles for each lesson to help students identify the key components in multicultural education.  

·        Thematic chapters include a vignette related to the theme; examples of pertinent current research; guiding principles linked to the chapter theme along with classroom applications for each principle; detailed lesson plans and units of instruction; and relevant standards established by the major professional organizations.

·        A Links section following the lessons contains thought-provoking questions to assist teachers with review and reflection on the chapter’s content.

·        A Teacher Resources section at the end of the book, containing a key to National Standards Issued by Professional Organizations, the INTASC Principles, Howard Gardner’s nine intelligences, and Benjamin Bloom’s Taxonomy of Educational Objectives (1971) prepare future teachers with the tools to understanding their students and learning.

WHAT REVIEWERS ARE SAYING:

“The rationale for using school as a place to increase the global perspectives of children and their teachers is handled thoroughly and well illustrated with concrete units, lessons and activities.” —Walter J. Ullrich, CSU-Fresno

 “I was impressed with all the references and appreciate as a teacher the resource that it would provide for me.”–Janelle D. Burge, University of Missouri, Kansas City

“Teachers today need to know how to make change. This text appears to offer plenty of strategies.” —Carolyn Miller, Estrella Mountain Community College

This primer offers a starting point for teachers who want to engage in culturally responsive practice to ensure meaningful learning for all their students.

This practical handbook will help teachers inspire their students to make a difference in their schools, communities, and the world. With over forty highly-motivating, culturally responsive lessons and teaching strategies, this handbook offers teachers a variety of interdisciplinary, classroom-tested strategies and activity-oriented approaches for becoming culturally competent. Adaptable to all grade levels and subject specialties, the content and strategies presented are grounded in theories developed by researchers and practitioners who have been actively teaching and writing about multicultural education and related fields. An inside cover matrix identifies the content area, grade level, and teaching principles for each lesson by chapter.

Strategies and Lessons for Culturally Responsive Teaching: A Primer from Roselle Kline Chartock, offers teachers fourty interdisciplinary, classroom-tested strategies, and activity-based approaches for becoming culturally responsive. Adaptable to all grade levels and subject specialties, the content and strategies presented are grounded in theories developed by researchers and teachers who actively teach and write about multicultural education.

Here are some reasons you’ll want Strategies and Lessons for Culturally Responsive Teaching in your library…

• Contains over 40 culturally responsive lessons and teaching strategies.
• Includes thought-provoking questions to assist teachers with review and reflection on the chapter’s content.

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