Posted by Chip on November 15, 2007
If you are an African American educator or teaching in a predominately African American school, it would be great for you to post a comment to this blog!
A number of researchers and scholars have helped students of child development understand that African American children face a more complex array of developmental tasks as they grow [...]
Categories: Diversity, Teachers & Teaching, Thinking Developmentally |
Tags: Bertha Garrett Holliday, cultural equity, developmental teaching, Diversity, Harriette Pipes McAdoo, social-emotional learning | 
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Posted by Chip on November 12, 2007
If you are teaching in a two-way immersion Spanish-English school setting, it would be great to hear your input on this piece.
Work by Iliana Reyes and her colleagues at the University of Arizona on Mexican-American children’s development is extremely instructive. Their research looks at how children learn languages, something that anyone who teaches children from [...]
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Tags: cultural equity, developmental teaching, Diversity, Iliana Reyes, Latino/Hispanic children, Mexican-American children, social-emotional learning | Post a Comment »
Posted by Chip on November 8, 2007
How children see the world and how they think and act at school is affected by their developmental differences, but also by the family cultures and values they bring to the classroom. A combination of a more diversified teacher population and a deeper valuing of all children’s home cultures by all teachers would go a [...]
Categories: Diversity, Teachers & Teaching, Thinking Developmentally |
Tags: cultural equity, developmental teaching, Diversity, Gloria Rodriquez, Latino children, Raising Nuestros Ninos: Bringing Up Latino Children in a Bicultural World, social-emotional learning | 4 Comments »
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