Beth Lindsay Templeton

Understanding Poverty in the Classroom

Changing Perceptions for Student Success

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Understanding Poverty in the Classroom identifies perceptual differences, teaches strategies to address the special needs of children from poverty, encourages teachers to learn about the neighborhoods where their students live and what to look for in those areas, confronts myths about poverty, and reinforces learning with specific illustrations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield
• Seitenzahl: 114
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 238g
• ISBN-13: 9781610483636
• ISBN-10: 1610483634
• Artikelnr.: 32867174

Autorenporträt

Beth Lindsay Templeton, director of Our Eyes Were Opened, is a community activist, innovator, minister, consultant, teacher, and writer. She began her career as a secondary mathematics teacher and for the last twenty-eight years has worked at United Ministries, a non-profit in Greenville, South Carolina.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Introduction Part One: Understanding Poverty Chapter One:
Defining the Well-Being of a Child Chapter Two: Poverty in Our Midst
Chapter Three: Seeing With Other Eyes Chapter Four: Becoming Aware of
Assumptions Chapter Five: Deepening Our Understanding Part Two: Helping
Students Who Live in Poverty Chapter Six: Grasping the Effects of Poverty
on Teaching and Learning Chapter Seven: Facing More Challenges Chapter
Eight: And Then There Are the Parents Part Three: Success Is Possible
Chapter Nine: Learning From Other Successes Chapter Ten: Conclusion Sources
About the Author Appendix One: Setting Up A Poverty Tour Appendix Two:
Progress Report