The essential guide for classroom teachers working with urban learners, underprivileged learners, and English language learners to close the achievement gap!
This compact volume offers teachers a comprehensive introduction to the basics of working with diverse learners. Topics include:
Influences—past, present, and future
The urban achievement gap: separating fact from fiction and identifying what teachers can do to close the gap
Understanding diversity in terms of modalities, socioeconomic status, race/ethnicity, and more
Recognizing the signs of bias, including linguistic bias, stereotyping, exclusion, selectivity, and isolation
Choosing the teaching strategies that make the most difference, focusing on the learner’s attention, cognition, memory, and self-system
Setting high expectations for learners
A Teacher’s Checklist for working with diversity in the classroom, school, community, state, and nation
Vocabulary pre-test, post-test, and summary
Bibliography and index