How to Teach Students Who Don′t Look Like You: Culturally Responsive Teaching Strategies - Paperback

by Bonnie M. Davis (Author)

Engage diverse learners in your classroom with culturally responsive instruction!

How to Teach Students Who Don′t Look like You helps educators recognize the impact that culture has on the learning process. The term "diverse learners" encompasses a variety of student groups, including homeless children, migrant children, English language learners, children experiencing gender identity issues, children with learning disabilities, and children with special needs.

This revised second edition reflects the latest trends in education, and includes new coverage of standards-based, culturally responsive lesson planning and instruction, differentiated instruction, RTI, and the Common Core State Standards. Bonnie M. Davis helps all educators:

• Tailor instruction to their own unique student population
• Reflect on their own cultures and how this shapes their views of the world
• Cultivate a deeper understanding of race and racism in the U.S.
• Create culturally responsive instruction
• Understand culture and how it affects learning

How to Teach Students Who Don′t Look like You provides crucial strategies to assist educators in addressing the needs of diverse learners and closing the achievement gap.

"This book ′fires up′ educators by speaking from the soul to reach the heart, from the research to engage the mind, and from the skillful hand to build the necessary expertise."
--Peggy Dickerson, Professional Service Provider
Region XIII Texas Education Service Center, Austin, TX

"The vignettes and classroom situations help the reader understand how race plays out in our society and in our classrooms. Dr. Davis takes on a very volatile topic and is able to engage the reader without offending. The examples, vignettes, cases, and stories will hook the readers just as they did me. Once I began reading the book, I could not put it down."
--Ava Maria Whittemore, Minority Achievement Coordinator
Frederick County Public Schools, MD

Author Biography

Bonnie M. Davis, Ph.D., is the author of the best-selling Corwin book, How to Teach Students Who Don′t Look Like You: Culturally Relevant Teaching Strategies (2006). She currently serves as a consultant on literacy coaching, writing across the content areas, and culturally proficient instruction to schools, districts, and professional organizations. For 30 years, Dr. Davis taught English in middle schools, high schools, universities, homeless shelters, and a men′s prison. She is the recipient of several awards, including The Teacher of the Year, The Governor′s Award for Teaching Excellence, The Anti-Defamation League′s World of Difference Community Service Award and the Chi State Distinguished Career/Professional Service Award. She has presented for the National Staff Development Council, Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, National Education Association, National Council for Teachers of English, and National Association of Multicultural Education, among others.

In addition to her writing, Dr. Davis owns an educational consulting firm, Educating for Change, presenting to and coaching educators in many schools and school districts throughout the United States. Because she spent the majority of her career in the classroom, she considers herself first a teacher and she relates to staffs in a lively, interactive manner.