Chapter 1
What is the school population of racially and culturally diverse groups now?
45%
What is a Paradigm?
Depicts distinctive ways of "ordering experience" or of "constructing reality".
Three types of relationship-building strategies
1. reaching out and sharing oneself with families
2. Valuing and affirming family expertise and ways of knowing
3. Involving parents as significant participants in children's learning
What is Social Class?
Connotes the socioeconomic standing of an individual or, in the case of children, their families.
What event led George to get on the Energy Bus in the first place?
Flat tire
Percentage of white vs colored in the teacher workforce
White: 83%
Colored: 17%
Educators believe that their views of what students must learn to succeed should be dominant, and that they know best.
An effective strategy for building trusting relationships with families that can directly influence how teachers develop their instruction
Make it a part of their routine to invite families to share their perspectives and expertise about their child.
What is the approach of Culturally responsive teaching?
What did Joy call people that came on the bus looking "lifeless"?
Energy Vampires
What is funds of knowledge?
the various social and linguistic practices and the historically accumulated bodies of knowledge essential to students' homes and communities.
What is Cultural Capital?
Educators expect parents to spend enough time with their children to transfer to them.
It consists of way-one communication from the school to parents about the curriculum, rules and routines, and typical procedures in the school.
Opportunities for reflective teaching can be gained though...
forms of teacher inquiry, such as action research or lesson study
How many rules did the bus have?
10
Both parents and students are invited to play an active, co expert role with teachers
Family-school solving problems
Family-school relations are called?
Another type of climate-building strategy
Involves the written communications sent from the school to parents.
What is Cultural Hegemony?
Systemic imposition of one set of cultural values over others.
What does it mean to be the "driver of your own bus"?
Students are allowed to talk about their goals and share their academic work with their parents. The students not only share their school progress and develop a plan together with their parents on how to move forward but also learn an approach to cooperative planning and problem-solving that gives them ways of communicating with their parents in a respectful and cooperative manner
Student Led Parent conference
Third Paradigm shift emerged when?
1980s
What is the natural preference for living either in the world outside ourselves or the world inside ourselves?
We call this extroverts and introverts.
Culturally responsive educators have now developed 5 explicit standards for pedagogy
2. Developing language and literacy competence through instruction across the curriculum
3. Making meaning by connecting teaching and curriculum content with experiences and skills and students' home and community
4. Teaching complex thinking by challenging students towards greater cognitive complexity
5. Teaching through conversation by engaging students through dialogue and instructional conversation
What does Joy say about complaining?
We're winners, not whiners