A truly diverse classroom presents unique, even invigorating, challenges to educators. Our courses in this subject area provide an overview of the issues relevant to teaching diverse learners and students from poverty. Educators will consider how to foster resiliency, to build a sense of community within the classroom, to teach to student modalities, and to mediate the effects of poverty on student learning. Particular emphasis falls on working with generational poverty, different modalities of learning, and process skills. The courses promote a collaborative approach through building relationships, understanding bias, setting goals, and following through with established objectives.
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Teaching Students from Poverty
By Donna Walker Tileston
This course explores diversity in the classroom as constituted by urban learners, students from generational poverty, and English language learners. Educators will study the effects of bias on students learning processes and methods to overcome that bias. They will learn strategies that emphasize declarative and procedural knowledge, that modify for diverse students particular needs, and that exploit the functions of memory.
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