URBAN EDUCATION
What are three factors that can shape instruction and outcomes in urban schools?
Concentrated poverty, resource constraints, and complex family/community needs.
What teaching approach uses students' customs, characteristics, experiences, and perspectives?
Culturally responsive teaching
Who is the scholar associated with the beginning of culturally responsive teaching?
GLORIA LADSON-BILLINGS
Teachers should have a strong knowledge base about what?
Cultural Diversity
Freedom Writers is based on whose true story?
Erin Gruwell's
Urban schools often struggle with these two problems involving money and supplies.
Chronic underfunding and resource shortages.
Culturally responsive teaching helps students see what in the classroom?
Themselves/their identities and experiences.
In what years did culturally responsive teaching begin, according to your presentation?
The 1990s
What type of curriculum includes multiple perspectives and diverse classroom representation?
Culturally relevant curricula.
What were Erin Gruwell's students initially labeled?
“Bad” and “unteachable.”
Besides resource shortages, what problem involving teachers can urban schools experience?
Teacher turnover.
Students' lived experiences can help them understand what?
The world and the things they are learning
What harmful idea about Black children did Ladson-Billings challenge?
The idea that Black children were deficient or deviant and that something was inherently wrong with them.
What should teachers maintain for all students?
High expectations
What famous book did Gruwell give her students?
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank.
Urban education refers to schooling primarily in what type of communities?
Densely populated, diverse communities.
Why can culturally responsive teaching help teachers?
It helps teachers understand who their students are as learners and what support they may need.
Who did Ladson-Billings study
Teachers of Black students who were considered excellent by Black parents and principals.
Teachers should understand and modify classroom interactions based on different ______ styles.
Communication
Why did the book help the students connect with what they were learning?
It allowed them to see connections between their own experiences and what they were learning.
Name all three major challenges that can affect urban schools.
Chronic underfunding, resource shortages, and teacher turnover.
What is the main idea behind culturally responsive teaching?
Using students' cultural experiences, perspectives, and characteristics as tools to improve classroom instruction.
What did the teachers Ladson-Billings studied have in common?
They had high expectations for their students and integrated themselves into their students' communities.
What connects students' prior knowledge and cultural experiences with new knowledge?
Multicultural instructional examples.
What did Gruwell give students that allowed them to write about their feelings, fears, struggles, and personal experiences?
Ungraded journals.