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Informationen zum Autor Beth Lindsay Templeton , director of Our Eyes Were Opened, is a community activist, innovator, minister, consultant, teacher, and writer. She began her career as a secondary mathematics teacher and for the last twenty-eight years has worked at United Ministries, a non-profit in Greenville, South Carolina. Klappentext Understanding Poverty in the Classroom identifies perceptual differences, teaches strategies to address the special needs of children from poverty, encourages teachers to learn about the neighborhoods where their students live and what to look for in those areas, confronts myths about poverty, and reinforces learning with specific illustrations. Zusammenfassung Understanding Poverty in the Classroom identifies perceptual differences! teaches strategies to address the special needs of children from poverty! encourages teachers to learn about the neighborhoods where their students live and what to look for in those areas! confronts myths about poverty! and reinforces learning with specific illustrations. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction Part One: Understanding Poverty Chapter One: Defining the Well-Being of a Child Chapter Two: Poverty in Our Midst Chapter Three: Seeing With Other Eyes Chapter Four: Becoming Aware of Assumptions Chapter Five: Deepening Our Understanding Part Two: Helping Students Who Live in Poverty Chapter Six: Grasping the Effects of Poverty on Teaching and Learning Chapter Seven: Facing More Challenges Chapter Eight: And Then There Are the Parents Part Three: Success Is Possible Chapter Nine: Learning From Other Successes Chapter Ten: Conclusion Sources About the Author Appendix One: Setting Up A Poverty Tour Appendix Two: Progress Report
