So ... I have some teachers that are hard pressed for time for reading and some that are reading simply to get through the information, some that aren't reading at all and others who are so entrenched in the reading that they are applying it to their deliberate practice daily. So ... for those willing participants, providing the book has been an easy solution ...But what about those who are either unwilling to or don't have the time to fully ingest the information about teaching students who come from poverty. We know that students of poverty come with both unique and exceptional gifts as well as uniques challenges. I write the weekly each week and there is a section of the weekly called "Intern Notes." I have decided to use this to spoon feed relevant information about the unique needs that come with our population of low socio-economic students and imbed some instructional strategies in there. This way they are actually doing the reading in incremental doses and they will have a week between each post to reflect on the information being provided. This is the second week. I already had one teacher come to me and say that the reading was interesting. I am pulling in all sorts of reading.
I am pulling from the following authors:
Why Culture Counts: Teaching Children of Poverty by Donna Tileston & Sandra Darling
Visible Learning by John Hattie
How Children Succees by Paul Tough
Classroom Instruction That Works by Robert Marzano
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