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Facilitator's Guide to How to Teach Students Who Don't Look Like You

Culturally Relevant Teaching Strategies

By: Bonnie M. Davis

Help teachers reflect, shift perceptions, and find more effective approaches for teaching their students!

This facilitator's guide gives staff developers the tools for leading professional development events of any size that help teachers close the achievement gap for culturally and ethnically diverse students. Facilitators will be able to demonstrate culturally appropriate and research-based teaching strategies for diverse learners and lead discussions about:

Cultural factors that influence educators' perceptions of their students
Supportive school cultures and learning environments
Learners' communication styles, classroom behaviors, and learning needs
Techniques for strengthening students' reading and writing skills
Ways to build relationships and community with students

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Product Details

Grade Level: K-12
ISBN: 9781412968522
Published By: Corwin
Year: 2008
Page Count: 64
Publication date: July 22, 2008

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Description

Help teachers reflect, shift perceptions, and find more effective approaches for teaching their students!

Based on the best-selling book How to Teach Students Who Don't Look Like You, this guide gives staff developers and workshop leaders the tools to facilitate book study groups, seminars, and professional development events that help teachers close the achievement gap for culturally and ethnically diverse students. Facilitators will be able to demonstrate culturally appropriate and research-based teaching strategies for diverse learners and lead discussions on topics that include

Identifying cultural factors that influence educators' perceptions of their students
Creating supportive school cultures and learning environments
Understanding learners' communication styles, classroom behaviors, and learning needs
Developing and strengthening students' reading and writing skills
Building relationships and community with students

The chapter-by-chapter study guide follows the same format as the companion book and features

Activities
Discussion questions
Suggestions for practical applications
Chapter summaries
Handouts
Resources for extending learning
Sample agendas for half-day, one-day, and three-day workshops
A workshop evaluation form

The Facilitator's Guide to How to Teach Students Who Don't Look Like You is ideal for staff developers or anyone leading professional development for groups of any size—pairs, small workshops, or large seminars.

Author(s)

Bonnie M. Davis

Consulting Description

Bonnie M. Davis, PhD, is a veteran teacher of more than forty years who is passionate about education. She taught in middle schools, high schools, universities, homeless shelters, and a men’s prison. She holds a doctorate in English from St. Louis University and is the recipient of numerous awards, including Teacher of the Year in two public school districts, the Governor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, and the Anti-Defamation League’s World of Difference Community Service Award. She has presented at numerous national conferences and currently works in school districts across the country.

Dr. Davis’ work centers on examining what “we don’t know we don’t know” about ourselves in order to more effectively teach students who don’t look like us. Moving from self reflection to action, her books offer educators culturally responsive, standards-based instructional strategies that bridge culture, language, race, and ethnicity.

Dr. Davis’s publications include the How to Teach Students Who Don’t Look Like You: Culturally Responsive Teaching Strategies(2012);How to Coach Teachers Who Don’t Think Like You: Using Literacy Strategies to Coach Across Content Areas (2007); The Biracial and Multiracial Student Experience: A Journey to Racial Literacy(2009); and Creating Culturally Considerate Schools: Educating Without Bias (2012) with coauthor Kim L. Anderson. She is currently working on the Equity 101 Series with Curtin Linton, Executive Vice President of School Improvement Network.

Table of Contents

About the Author

Introduction

How to Use This Guide

Additional Resources for Facilitators

Chapter-by-Chapter Study Guide: How to Teach Students Who Don't Look Like You: Culturally Relevant Teaching Strategies by Bonnie M. Davis

Part I: Building Background Knowledge About Diverse Learners

Chapter 1. Our Culture: The Way We View the World

Chapter 2. Understanding Diverse Learners

Chapter 3. What We Know About the Achievement Gap

Part II: Examining Our Inner World

Chapter 4. Reflecting on the Educator Self

Chapter 5. Exploring Our Racial Identity

Chapter 6. A Day in the Life . . .

Part III: Creating a Learning Environment That Supports Diverse Learners

Chapter 7. Building Community Through Research-Based Learning Expectations

Chapter 8. Creating a School Culture That Welcomes Diverse Learners

Chapter 9. Using Books to Support School and Community Partnerships

Chapter 10. Cultivating Relationships With Diverse Learners

Part IV: Research-Based Teaching Strategies for Diverse Learners

Chapter 11. Reaching Diverse Learners Through Strategic Instruction

Chapter 12. Inspiring Diverse Learners to Love Reading and Writing

Chapter 13. Improving Reading Skills: Reading Aloud

Chapter 14. Building a Balanced Literacy Classroom: Reading and Writing Workshops

Chapter 15. Differentiating Instruction

Chapter 16. Multidisciplinary Experiences

Chapter 17. Sponsoring Academic Student Support Groups

Handouts

Handout 1: Venn Diagram

Handout 2: List of Research-Based Classroom Strategies to Improve the Academic Achievement of Diverse Learners

Sample Workshop Agendas

Half-Day Workshop Agenda

One-Day Workshop Agenda

Three-Day Workshop Agenda

Workshop Evaluation Form

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