Closing the Poverty and Culture Gap - Tileston, Donna Walker; Darling, Sandra K.
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Use instructional practices that lead students of poverty and diverse cultures to success! Donna Walker Tileston and Sandra K. Darling provide instructional strategies to help teachers improve learning in students of diverse cultures and poverty. This research-based book presents a six-part framework that builds on students' assets and strengths. The authors discuss: Why some cultures are "turned off" by typical motivational approaches and what educators can do to reach students What research says about the brain's desire to learn How teachers can build on students' prior knowledge The…mehr

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Use instructional practices that lead students of poverty and diverse cultures to success! Donna Walker Tileston and Sandra K. Darling provide instructional strategies to help teachers improve learning in students of diverse cultures and poverty. This research-based book presents a six-part framework that builds on students' assets and strengths. The authors discuss: Why some cultures are "turned off" by typical motivational approaches and what educators can do to reach students What research says about the brain's desire to learn How teachers can build on students' prior knowledge The importance of resiliency Teaching procedural and declarative knowledge and preparing students for tests
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Donna Walker Tileston, EdD, is a veteran teacher and administrator. She is currently the president of Strategic Teaching and Learning, a consulting firm that provides services to schools throughout the United States and world-wide.. Also an author, Donna's publications include Ten Best Teaching Practices: How Brain Research, Learning Styles, and Standards Define Teaching Competencies (2000), which has been on Corwin Press's best-seller list since its first year in print, in addition to the ten-volume award winning series What Every Teacher Should Know, now in its second edition. Other recent titles are Teaching Strategies for Active Learning (2006), Teaching Strategies that Prepare Students for High Stakes Tests (2008), and Closing the Poverty and Culture Gap (2009). Donna received her BA from the University of North Texas, her MA from East Texas State University, and her EdD from Texas A & M University-Commerce. She may be reached at www.whateveryteachershouldknow.com