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How to Teach Students Who Don't Look Like You
Culturally Responsive Teaching Strategies

Second Edition


July 2012 | 312 pages | Corwin
Engage diverse learners in your classroom with culturally responsive instruction!

This second edition includes new or expanded coverage of Latino students, ELLs, immigrant students, race, and racial identity, and new coverage of standards-based, culturally responsive lesson planning and instruction, differentiated instruction, RTI, and the Common Core State Standards. This book helps all educators tailor instruction to their unique student population and:

Reflect on their cultures and how this shapes their views of the world

Cultivate a deeper understanding of race and racism in the U.S.

Create culturally responsive instruction

Understand how culture affects learning


 
Foreword by Curtis Linton
 
Preface
 
Acknowledgments
 
About the Author
 
How to Read the Book
 
Part I. Looking Inside Ourselves
 
1. Our Culture: The Way We View the World
 
2. Reflection Questions for Examining Our Inner Selves
 
3. Exploring Our Racial Identity Through Our Racial History
 
4. What Is Race?
 
5. A Day in the Life . . .
 
Part II. Listening to and Learning From Others
 
6. What Do We Need to Know About Culturally Diverse Learners?
 
7. Latino/a/Hispanic Learners: A Personal Story
 
8. New Immigrant Learners of the Twenty-First Century
 
9. What the Research Says About Learning Gaps
 
10. How to Build Relationships With Culturally Diverse Students and Families
 
11. Creating a School Culture That Welcomes Students, Staff, and Families
 
Part III. Integrating New Knowledge
 
12. Strategies to Teach and Engage Culturally Diverse Learners and ELs
 
13. Moving Students From Apathy to Passion: Learning to Love Reading and Writing
 
14. Standards-Based, Culturally Responsive Lessons That Engage Learners
 
15. Readers and Writers Workshop: A Model for Standards-Based, Culturally Responsive Instruction
 
16. Teachers in Today's Classrooms Share Their Lessons
 
Part IV. A Call to Action
 
17. A Call to Action: Sponsoring Academic Student Support Groups
 
18. A Call to Action: Taking Care of Yourself
 
References and Resources
 
Index

"The conversation about race woven into the book is unique and definitely essential in order to effectively address the achievement gaps that are a function of race. Dr. Davis takes on a very volatile topic and is able to engage the reader without offending. Her blending of personal racial autobiographies with the courageous conversations research of Curtis Linton and Glenn Singleton is very effective. The vignettes and classroom situations help the reader understand how race plays out in our society and in our classrooms. The examples, vignettes, cases, stories, etc. will hook the readers just as they did me. Once I began reading the book, I could not put it down.”

Maria Whittemore, Minority Achievement Coordinator
Frederick County Public Schools, Frederick, MD

Information contained in the text. My undergraduate students are finding this text very helpful and thought provoking. While some of it relates directly to practicing teachers, it has many beneficial components to learning about diversity.

Dr Sheri Okland
School of Education and Graduate Studies, Valley City State University
February 4, 2015
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Key features

The following "hallmark" features of the first edition will be carried over to the new edition:

  • Provides educators with a framework and vocabulary for critically examining their classroom practices in relation to the assets and needs of their diverse student populations.
  • Focuses on how to first recognize one's own racial and cultural identity as the initial step toward reaching and teaching diverse learners.
  • Includes numerous prompts and activities to stimulate teacher reflection and action.
  • Filled with research-based teaching strategies for diverse learners.
  • Popular "Day in the Life" chapter sensitively explores issues of racism and White privilege by contrasting the lives and experiences of two veteran educators.


In addition, the following new areas of coverage have been proposed:

  • Reference to the Common Core Standards and how to use them to frame classroom instruction;
  • Expansion of the White Privilege section including a discussion of "post-racial" ideology;
  • Suggestions on how to integrate personal technology rather than fight it in the classroom;
  • Expansion of knowledge base about our growing population of Latino students, ELL, homeless, and refugee students;
  • Inclusion of updated info, anecdotes, and strategies regarding assessment;
  • Updated Selected Bibliography;
  • New learnings and strategies gleaned from six years of national presenting and working in urban, suburban, and rural areas; and
  • New voices from the classrooms.

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