Donna Walker Tileston and SandraK. Darlingprovide instructional strategies to help teachers improve learning in students of diverse cultures and poverty. This research-based book presents a six-part framework that builds on students' assets and strengths. The authors discuss:
- Why some cultures are "turned off" by typical motivational approaches and what educators can do to reach students
- What research says about the brain's desire to learn
- How teachers can build on students' prior knowledge
- The importance of resiliency
- Teaching procedural and declarative knowledge and preparing students for tests