Biography-driven Culturally Responsive Teaching
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Biography-driven Culturally Responsive Teaching by Socorro Herrera
A practical guide for teachers serving culturally and linguistically diverse populations. It demonstrates how to plan and implement culturally responsive instruction using student biographies as the point of departure. The author provides tools for tapping into the strengths students bring from their sociocultural, linguistic, cognitive, and academic histories, and shows how to draw on these assets and guide students to better access their own strengths and existing funds of knowledge.
Dr. Herrera serves as a professor of Elementary Education at Kansas State University and directs the Center for Intercultural and Multilingual Advocacy (CIMA) in the College of Education and her research focuses on literacy opportunities with culturally and linguistically diverse students, reading strategies, and teacher preparation for diversity in the classroom. Dr. Herrera has recently published two books with Allyn and Bacon, Mastering ESL and Bilingual Methods: Differentiated Instruction for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students (2005) and Assessment Accommodations for Classroom Teachers of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students (2007). Dr. Herrera has also authored articles for numerous nationally known journals such as the Bilingual Research Journal, Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, Journal of Research in Education, and the Journal of Latinos and Education. Dr. Perez serves as an assistant professor of Elementary Education at Kansas State University and is the Associate Director of Undergraduate Programming at the Center for Intercultural and Multilingual Advocacy (CIMA) in the College of Education and her research has focused on literacy development and instruction for culturally and linguistically diverse students and parental involvement. Dr. Perez has published The Five Components of Reading Development A Classroom Teacher's Guide to Scaffolding Reading Instruction for ELL Students (2006) and ELL Literacy Interventions: Accommodations and Acceleration for Reading Success (2005). Dr. Herrera has also co-authored a book chapter for Culturally responsive teacher education: Language, curriculum, and community (2008). Kathy Escamilla is a Professor of Education at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She has been a bilingual teacher, program administrator and professor for over 37 years. She helped to develop the Spanish reconstruction of Reading Recovery (Descubriendo La Lectura) which was published in the book Instrumento de observacion de los logros de la leco-escritura inicial. (Heinemann). She has done extensive research in the area of literacy for Spanish speaking children in the U.S. and has authored over 40 journal articles in this area. She served two terms as the President of the National Association for Bilingual Education (NABE) and works as a technical assistant and consultant for Bilingual/ESL programs nationwide.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780807750865 |
| ISBN 10 | 0807750867 |
| Title | Biography-driven Culturally Responsive Teaching |
| Author | Socorro G Herrera |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Teachers' College Press |
| Year published | 2010-05-01 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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