ObjectiveTo test a 2-year community- and family-based obesity prevention program for low-income African American girls: Stanford GEMS (Girls' health
Look around your classroom. Does your library contain books by diverse authors, on topics that appeal to the cultures represented by your students? What about your classroom decorations—do they show faces and cultural elements similar to those of your own students’? Kids should see that their ...
I found teaching these classes to be fascinating and rewarding for I was training the ESL and bilingual education teachers of my community, changing the way students like me were taught. I was givingthem the tools my own ...
Parents of children whose main language at home was not English gave feedback that Cool Little Kids was helpful for managing their inhibited child's emotional distress. Significantly fewer intervention than control children whose main language at home was not English had separation anxiety symptoms ...
“That [video] for hip hop, the kids would really like that. When you write the song, that would be including everything”. HP005 Community Member & Aboriginal Teaching Assistant “The kids love music and dance and books”. S018 School Staff Discussion Aboriginal stakeholders and researchers ...
Further, the book gives realistic classroom examples on both how to implement a culturally responsive pedagogy in classrooms, and how to do so with linguistically and culturally diverse students with unique needs. This includes comprehensive lesson plans geared toward realistic topics for grades K-5,...
on the work of Ladson-Billings and identified the termculturally responsive teachingto describe pedagogy that uses “the cultural knowledge, prior experiences, frames of reference, and performance styles of ethnically diverse students to make learning encounters more relevant to and effective for them....
London may come in second place behind New York City for percentage of immigrant population. But it is easily the most diverse city in all of Europe. Bangladeshis, Pakistanis, and Indians are a few of the larger immigrant groups, and a walk around the city will uncover that they have defi...
Sponsored byRaymond GeddesandKids Discover The term “culturally responsive teaching” has been aroundfor decades, but it seems to have gotten more attention in recent years. That’s good news: With our classrooms growing more diverse every year, teachers should be more interested in how they can...
Diverse students (and all students, really) learn content more effectively if they can create a coherent narrative about the topic or process presented. That’s the brain’s way of weaving it all together. (Bonus: It also offers a great way to check for understanding and correct ...