Strategies and Lessons for Culturally Responsive Teaching: A Primer for K-12 Teachers, 1st edition
Title overview
- Contains over forty culturally responsive lessons and teaching strategies, offering students diverse, activity-oriented approaches for becoming culturally competent.
- Includes an inside cover matrix, organized by chapter, that identifies the content area, grade level, and teaching principles for each lesson, to help students identify the key components in multicultural education.
- Maintains a consistent chapter organization: a vignette related to the theme; examples of pertinent current research; guiding principles linked to the chapter theme along with classroom applications of each principle; detailed lesson plans and units of instruction; and abbreviations that indicate standards established by the major professional organizations.
- Includes a “Links” section following the lessons, which contains thought-provoking questions to assist teachers with review and reflection on the chapter’s content.
- Provides a Teacher Resources section at the end of the book, containing a key to National Standards Issued by Professional Organizations Representing Major Disciplines, the INTASC Principles, Howard Gardner’s nine intelligences, and Benjamin Bloom’s Taxonomy of Educational Objectives (1971), to better prepare future teachers with the tools to understanding their students and learning.
Table of contents
Preface
Chapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Preparing to Become a Culturally Responsive Teacher
Chapter 3: Lessons and Strategies for Building the Classroom-As-Community
Chapter 4: Lessons and Strategies for Increasing Knowledge About Diversity
Chapter 5: Lessons and Strategies for Reducing Prejudice
Chapter 6: Lessons and Strategies for Addressing Diversity and the Needs of English Language Learners
Chapter 7: Lessons and Strategies for Increasing Global Perspectives
Teacher Resources
Author bios
Roselle K. Chartock, Ed.D., is professor of education at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts in North Adams, MA. Prior to teaching on the college level, Dr. Chartock taught high school history and before that middle and elementary school. She is the author/editor of Educational Foundations: An Anthology (2nd Edition, Merrill Prentice Hall, 2004), and co-editor of Can It Happen: Chronicles of the Holocaust (Black Dog and Leventhal, 2001), as well as author of several journal articles on subjects ranging from interdisciplinary approaches to curriculum development to incorporating art and music across the curriculum. At the heart of all of her publications is the goal of preparing culturally responsive teachers. Dr. Chartock resides in Great Barrington, MA with her husband, Alan.