Donna E Walker Tileston

Broschiertes Buch

What Every Teacher Should Know about Diverse Learners

Beschreibung

This second edition of the bestseller presents critical information about teaching diverse learners and demonstrates how teachers can ensure every student's academic success. Updated throughout, the book reflects new data about the brain, the need for a variety of strategies, and the value of using visual and kinesthetic tools. The author provides a teacher's checklist for working with diversity and helps readers consider: - 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.

Autor

Donna Walker Tileston 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 worldwide. Donna's publications include Ten Best Teaching Practices: How Brain Research, Learning Styles, and Standards Define Teaching Competencies (2000), which has been on Corwin¿s bestseller 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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sage Publications
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 120
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 150mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 181g
• ISBN-13: 9781412971751
• ISBN-10: 1412971756
• Artikelnr.: 29568628