Understanding Poverty in the Classroom: Changing Perceptions for Student Success - Hardcover

Templeton, Beth Lindsay

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1610483634 ISBN 13: 9781610483636

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2011

Synopsis

People who live in poverty consider life in different ways than those who have adequate basic resources. Many educators tend to see the world through their middle-class worldview. Because of this, they do not understand these significant and often rational differences. They may misinterpret behavior they see and ascribe negative connotations to how their students are reacting. Their assumptions can affect the quality of both the teaching and the learning that happens. Most teachers have real passion for educating their students but their experiences limit how they relate to the challenges some of their students face daily. 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 This resource is interactive with exercises that increase the reader's learning and provides specific tools to improve the educational process for teachers, students, and parents.

About this title

About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Education
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1610483634
• ISBN 13: 9781610483636
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 114