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Record Nr.

UNINA9910480383003321

Autore

Delgado-Gaitan Concha

Titolo

Building culturally responsive classrooms : a guide for K-6 teachers / / Concha Delgado Gaitan ; cover designer, Michael Dubowe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Thousand Oaks, California : , : Corwin Press, , 2006

©2006

ISBN

1-4833-6192-6

1-4833-6409-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (193 p.)

Disciplina

371.1024

Soggetti

Multicultural education

Multiculturalism - Study and teaching (Elementary)

Classroom management

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""About the Author""; ""Chapter 1 - Introduction""; ""Part I - Context: Configuring the Classroom for Academic Equity""; ""Chapter 2 - Engaging with Children�s Values around Cooperation and Competition""; ""Chapter 3 - Culturally Responsive Classroom Discipline""; ""Chapter 4 - Accelerating Exceptional Students from all Linguistic and Cultural Groups""; ""Chapter 5 - Including Students with Special Needs in the Culturally Responsive Classroom""; ""Chapter 6 - Culturally Responsive Classroom Management""

""Chapter 7 - Supporting Children�s Cultural Adjustment""""Chapter 8 - Connecting Home and School""; ""Part II - Content: Learning Subject Matter through Culture in the Classroom""; ""Chapter 9 - Teaching Cultural Diversity""; ""Chapter 10 - Becoming Proficient in English""; ""Chapter 11 - Building Literacy""; ""Chapter 12 - Creating Equity in Math and Science""; ""Chapter 13 - Fostering Gender Equity""; ""Chapter 14 - Crafting an Interdisciplinary Curriculum""; ""Chapter 15 - Conclusion: Responding Culturally in Teaching""; ""References""; ""Index""



Sommario/riassunto

The author shows how teachers honoring real culture can transform the context and content within their classrooms while creating learning settings that challenge students academically.