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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 AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart One: Understanding PovertyChapter One: Defining the Well-Being of a ChildChapter Two: Poverty in Our MidstChapter Three: Seeing With Other EyesChapter Four: Becoming Aware of AssumptionsChapter Five: Deepening Our UnderstandingPart Two: Helping Students Who Live in PovertyChapter Six: Grasping the Effects of Poverty on Teaching and LearningChapter Seven: Facing More ChallengesChapter Eight: And Then There Are the ParentsPart Three: Success Is PossibleChapter Nine: Learning From Other SuccessesChapter Ten: ConclusionSourcesAbout the AuthorAppendix One: Setting Up A Poverty TourAppendix Two: Progress Report
