Download or read book Educating African American Students written by Gloria Swindler Boutte and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-20 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focused on preparing educators to teach African American students, this straightforward and teacher-friendly text features a careful balance of published scholarship, a framework for culturally relevant and critical pedagogy, research-based case studies of model teachers, and tested culturally relevant practical strategies and actionable steps teachers can adopt. Its premise is that teachers who understand Black culture as an asset rather than a liability and utilize teaching techniques that have been shown to work can and do have specific positive impacts on the educational experiences of African American children.
Download or read book Strategies for Educating African American Children written by Judith Clair-Hull and published by Urban Ministries Inc. This book was released on 2006-10-30 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ideal for teachers of African American children ages six through eleven. Educators will be equipped with tools to create powerful, Afro-centric curriculum for their students. Topics covered in the book include:. Contemporary learning theories. Personality development of primary and junior students. Effective African American teaching styles. Addressing the spiritual needs of AA childrenThis book fills a particular need as there are very few resources focused specifically on the Christian/spiritual education of African American children.
Download or read book 200 Educational Strategies to Teach Children of Color written by Jawanza Kunjufu and published by African Amer Images. This book was released on 2009 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With an emphasis on pragmatic approaches that can be accomplished in the classroom, this almanac of teaching solutions provides inner-city educators with 100 all-new strategies to daily challenges. As turnover rates remain excessively high among teachers in urban schools the type of firsthand experience offered by this helpful manual continues to be an essential source of training. The advice and expertise presented is fully supported by real-life examples rather than intangible theory, and the details directly tackle issues of race and class while offering a legitimate criticism of the American school system that poses many of the problems that teachers face.
Download or read book Educating African American Children written by Jessie C. Brown and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses history of education for African-American children.
Download or read book Understanding and Educating African American Children written by William L. Jenkins and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Understanding and Educating African-American Children explores and explains the multifaceted character of black children, focusing on black inner city children who present the schools with their greatest challenge. All black children are not alike and all of them do not fit the description given in these pages. But many of them are like the ones written about here, and understanding these will help the reader better understand all black children, and indeed all children... The essays in this book are about the different cultural and societal influences that impact black children and the variety of ways black children respond to those influences"--Preface.
Download or read book Learning While Black written by Janice E. Hale and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2001-12-04 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Learning While Black Janice Hale argues that educators must look beyond the cliches of urban poverty and teacher training to explain the failures of public education with regard to black students. Why, Hale asks simply, are black students not being educated as well as white students? Hale goes beyond finger pointing to search for solutions. Closing the achievement gap of African American children, she writes, does not involve better teacher training or more parental involvement. The solution lies in the classroom, in the nature of the interaction between the teacher and the child. And the key, she argues, is the instructional vision and leadership provided by principals. To meet the needs of diverse learners, the school must become the heart and soul of a broad effort, the coordinator of tutoring and support services provided by churches, service clubs, fraternal organizations, parents, and concerned citizens. Calling for the creation of the "beloved community" envisioned by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Hale outlines strategies for redefining the school as the Family, and the broader community as the Village, in which each child is too precious to be left behind. "In this book, I am calling for the school to improve traditional instructional practices and create culturally salient instruction that connects African American children to academic achievement. The instruction should be so delightful that the children love coming to school and find learning to be fun and exciting."—Janice Hale
Download or read book Achievement for African American Students written by Gary L. Reglin and published by Solution Tree. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been designed to provide teachers of kindergarten through grade 12 with techniques and approaches for helping their African American students achieve in school. It presents a planned approach to four major initiatives: (1) to restructure the instruction and behaviors practiced in most classrooms today; (2) to provide teachers with strategies that will help them interact positively with their multicultural students; (3) to provide social and instructional strategies designed for effectiveness with African American male students; and (4) to describe measures that will increase the involvement of African American parents in their children's education. Chapter 1 explains what is wrong with the situation as it is and why new strategies are needed to respond to the needs of African American students. Chapter 2 argues that teaching must be restructured to support instruction and behaviors that are sensitive to ethnic minorities. Chapter 3 outlines a blueprint for action to promote more positive interactions between teachers and students, and Chapter 4 challenges the myth that urban African American parents do not want to get involved in school. Chapter 4 also offers a set of programs and strategies to increase parent involvement and a strategy to involve the whole community. (Contains 84 references.) (SLD)
Download or read book Teaching African American Learners to Read written by Bill Hammond and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite many education reform efforts, African American children remain the most miseducated students in the United States. To help you mend this critical problem, this collection of original, adapted, and previously published articles provides examples of research-based practices and programs that successfully teach African American students to read. Thoughtful commentary on historic and current issues, discussion of research-based best practices, and examples of culturally appropriate instruction help you examine the role of education, identify best practices, consider the significance of culture in the teaching-learning process, and investigate some difficult issues of assessment.
Download or read book Black Lives Matter at School written by Denisha Jones and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This inspiring collection of accounts from educators and students is “an essential resource for all those seeking to build an antiracist school system” (Ibram X. Kendi). Since 2016, the Black Lives Matter at School movement has carved a new path for racial justice in education. A growing coalition of educators, students, parents and others have established an annual week of action during the first week of February. This anthology shares vital lessons that have been learned through this important work. In this volume, Bettina Love makes a powerful case for abolitionist teaching, Brian Jones looks at the historical context of the ongoing struggle for racial justice in education, and prominent teacher union leaders discuss the importance of anti-racism in their unions. Black Lives Matter at School includes essays, interviews, poems, resolutions, and more from participants across the country who have been building the movement on the ground.
Download or read book Educating African American Students written by Gloria Swindler Boutte and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This straight-forward and reader-friendly text provides strategies for P-12 educators who are interested in ensuring the cultural and academic excellence of African American students. It presents a careful balance of published scholarship, a framework for culturally relevant teaching, and research-based cases of teachers who excel at teaching Black children. Examples from multi-ethnic teachers across P-12 grades and content areas (e.g., ELA, science, mathematics, social studies, arts) are presented so that others can extrapolate and use in their respective educational settings. As with the previous edition, readers will appreciate a multitude of resources"--
Download or read book The Brilliance of Black Boys written by Brian L. Wright and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This much-needed book will help schools and, by extension, society to better understand and identify the promise, potential, and possibilities of Black boys. Drawing from their wealth of experience in early childhood education, the authors present an asset- and strengths-based view of educating Black boys. This positive approach enables practitioners and school leaders to recognize, understand, and cultivate the diversity of social skills of Black boys in the early grades (pre-K–3rd grade). Each chapter begins with a vignette to illustrate what is lost when Black boys are prevented from participating freely in boyhood, having to instead attend to adult and peer interactions and attitudes that view them as “bad boys” and “troublemakers.” This accessible book provides teachers with classroom strategies to help young Black boys achieve their highest potential, along with other resources for supporting their social-emotional development, such as a reading list of authentic multicultural children’s books with Black boys as protagonists. “The Brilliance of Black Boys claims new ground to advance knowledge and practice that can change the narrative about Black boys and their early schooling.” —From the Foreword by James Earl Davis, Temple University “Wright’s uncommon insight into the world of Black boys unveils a new narrative and gives educators a formula for turning opportunity into advantage.” —Carol Brunson Day, past president, NAEYC “The Brilliance of Black Boys provides counter-stories, theories, paradigms, and resources to skillfully illustrate the strengths of Black boys. Readers will not be disappointed.” —Donna Y. Ford, Vanderbilt University
Download or read book African American Children in Early Childhood Education written by Iheoma U. Iruka and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-31 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents both the challenges and opportunities that exist for addressing the critical needs of black children, who have been historically underserved in the U.S. education system.
Download or read book IMPROVING SCHOOLS FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDENTS written by Sheryl J. Denbo and published by Charles C Thomas Publisher. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Improving Schools for African American Students is designed to provide educational leaders with a better understanding of how to recognize the diversity of strengths that Black students bring with them to school and how to use these strengths to improve achievement. The articles contained in this book discuss generic education issues such as policy reform, the importance of high quality teaching, and the improvement of schools from the perspective of the academic achievement of African American students. Part I explores institutional racism in the context of America's public schools and provides suggestions for educational leaders to eliminate harmful policies and practices within educational institutions and settings. Part II discusses the kinds of institutional and instructional changes that are needed to support successful schooling of African American children and youth. Part III focuses on the challenges presented to African American students by the current high stakes testing environment that surrounds standards, assessment, and accountability. A review of the literature on schools that have succeeded in improving achievement for African American students at the elementary, middle, and high school levels with districts moving towards narrowing the achievement gap is included. This text examines a wide variety of policies, programs, practices, and research that will provide valuable insight. The emphasis throughout the book is on the ability of educators to successfully restructure their schools, offer high quality teaching and learning standards for African American students and to make the kinds of changes that will result in high achievement for all students.
Download or read book Engaging and Working with African American Fathers written by Latrice S Rollins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-30 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engaging and Working with African American Fathers: Strategies and Lessons Learned challenges traditional and historic practices and policies that have systematically excluded fathers and contributed to social and health disparities among this population. With chapters written primarily by African American women – drawing on years of research, interviews, and practical experience with this demographic – each section explores current evidence on engagement approaches, descriptions of agencies/programs addressing specific issues fathers face, and case studies documenting typical clients and approaches to addressing their diverse needs. Offering an expansive overview of issues affecting African American fathers, the book explores such important topics as public, child and mental health, education, parenting, employment, and public initiatives among others. Engaging and Working with African American Fathers is a key resource for social work, public health, education students, researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and members of communities who are challenged by meeting the diverse needs of African American fathers.
Download or read book African Americans and Homeschooling written by Ama Mazama and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-08-27 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite greater access to formal education, both disadvantaged and middle-class black students continue to struggle academically, causing a growing number of black parents to turn to homeschooling. This book is an in-depth exploration of the motivations behind black parents’ decision to educate their children at home and the strategies they’ve developed to overcome potential obstacles. Citing current issues such as culture, religion and safety, the book challenges the commonly expressed view that black parents and their children have divested from formal education by embracing homeschooling as a constructive strategy to provide black children with a valuable educational experience.
Download or read book Culturally Relevant Teaching Strategies for African American Children written by Erica Michele Warshawsky and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book No More White Flags written by Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE TIME IS LONG OVERDUE FOR MANY AFRICAN AMERICAN PARENTS TO TAKE THE WHITE FLAGS OUT OF THEIR CHILDREN'S HANDS, AND BECOME THEIR CHILDREN'S FIRST ACCOUNTABLE LINE OF DEFENSE SO THEIR CHILDREN CAN BE SUCCESSFUL IN SCHOOL. "Our African American children are crying out to you, Parents, for help in so many ways with their words and actions to get your attention because their young lives have been surrendered to the school system. Our children are not equipped to effectively handle situations at school, represent themselves in school administrative matters, or demand to be taught by qualified teachers. Your children want you to become more involved so they can be recognized as smart and intelligent, instead of existing in the population on the lowest rung of the ladder." All parents want their children to do well in school. Although many parents hope that their children will "be just fine" once inside the classroom, some parents tell their children to "do the best you can," but other parents employ practices to ensure that their children will be academically successful. What are those practices? An abundant amount of research continues to prove that the achievement gap is widening, and that overall, African American students continue to lag behind other races. However, not all African American children are lagging behind. What type of support is given to the successful children? What do the parents of high achievers do differently? If you are a parent seeking ways to encourage your child in his/her educational journey, examine these 25 practices other African American parents used--some are truly ol' school! One practice might be the pivotal positive change needed in your child's life!
