Pathways To Success in School

Name: Pathways To Success in School
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

This text is intended to assist teachers in understanding their own thinking and in identifying ways to draw upon their students' experiential backgrounds and learning propensities, in order to develop meaningful classroom experiences in a culturally diverse society. > This text is designed to help preservice and in-service teachers identify pathways to productive teaching and learning for students from culturally and experientially diverse backgrounds.\nTo better serve an increasingly diverse population, teachers need to be competent in selecting and developing culturally responsive curricula and instructional approaches that better facilitate learning for all students. They must be able to attend to diversity within and across cultural groups, and validate students' cultural knowledge acquired outside the classroom. To provide equitable access to learning, they must be able to strategically select or develop instructional approaches that build upon their students' learning propey