What Every Teacher Should Know About Diverse Learners, 2nd Edition, Aug/2010
| Author(s) | Donna Walker Tileston |
| ISBN10 | 1412971756 |
| ISBN13 | 9781412971751 |
| Format | Paperback |
| Pages | 120 |
| Year Publish | 2010 August |
Synopsis
Updated Edition of Bestseller!
"The book provides a root cause analysis of why so many students are failing in America's public schools. The materials translate research into practice and provide a rich collection of data for instructional strategies."
—Mary Reeve, Director, Services for Exceptional Students
Gallup McKinley County Schools, NM
Innovative, research-based strategies to reach all the learners in your class!
This second edition of the best-selling volume in the What Every Teacher Should Know series presents critical information about teaching learners from diverse racial, ethnic, socioeconomic, language, ability, and special needs backgrounds.
Updated throughout, this essential guide assimilates new data about how the brain processes information and provides tools for understanding and working with diverse students, including a cultural proficiency checklist, a vocabulary pretest and posttest, and a vocabulary summary. Donna Walker Tileston explores:
- Brain-compatible teaching strategies that engage diverse learners
- Signs of bias to avoid in the classroom, including stereotypes, exclusion, selectivity, and more
- How culture affects learning styles
- Updated research on teaching children in poverty
- Guidelines for working with English language learners
What Every Teacher Should Know About Diverse Learners shows teachers how to set high expectations for all students and facilitate their progress in fulfilling those expectations.
About The Author:
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.
