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Culturally Responsive Teaching and The Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students
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A bold, brain based teaching approach to culturally responsive instruction
To close the achievement gap, diverse classrooms need a proven framework for optimizing student engagement. Culturally responsive instruction has shown promise, but many teachers have struggled with its implementation―until now.
In this book, Zaretta Hammond draws on cutting edge neuroscience research to offer an innovative approach for designing and implementing brain compatible culturally responsive instruction.
The book includes:
- Information on how one’s culture programs the brain to process data and affects learning relationships
- Ten “key moves” to build students’ learner operating systems and prepare them to become independent learners
- Prompts for action and valuable self reflection
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Culturally Responsive Teaching and The Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students
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Original price was: $40.95.$19.99Current price is: $19.99.
Lee Anne –
As a white woman, I am always looking for a better understanding of different cultures. This will 100% help me understand my students better and keep my biases/privilege in check.
forgetmeknot531 –
Even though not every chapter was assigned for textbook reading, but I ended up reading the entire book anyway because I found it so fascinating. A wonderful perspective on classroom teaching.
James N. Frey –
This book is fantastic, a triumph; a truly ground-breaking work that may forever change the way teachers in America face the challenges of their profession. I’ve been a teacher for over thirty years and always felt I was pretty damn good at it, as good as anybody. But about halfway through my reading of Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain, I was suddenly stuck by the horrific realization that if I had known when I started teaching what Zaretta Hammond writes in this book, I would have been not just a good teacher, but perhaps a great one. I have always been focused on getting my students–whatever ethnic or socio-economic background they might have sprung from–to be interested in their studies and to give it their all. I tried my damnedest to motivate them to want to excel, not just in school, but in life. I sometimes succeeded, sometimes didn’t. I always smugly thought nobody (well, almost nobody) could do a better job than I was doing. But Ms. Hammond’s book destroyed that glib notion quickly. Reading her book was like being repeatedly, page by page, hit in the head with a brick. Soon I could see with absolute clarity that I could and should overhaul my thinking and my methods. By following the techniques suggested in Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain I could make quantum strides in my individual approach to each of my students and be confident that every last one of them could reach for and achieve their best.
Before reading the book I’d thought of cultural responsive teaching as academic eduspeak sort of stuff, a fancy label for what good teachers have been doing all along–pumping up an underachieving kid’s self esteem, blah, blah, blah. But I now know I was dead wrong. When the teacher really gets tuned into a student’s culture and ethnic identity as described in Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain, the teacher forms a partnership of learning with the student that does more than just jack them up; it actually facilitates the growth of the student’s neuroplasticity (brain cell connections). How cool is that? Properly intellectually stimulated, a student will grow millions, if not hundreds of millions, new brain cells; brain cells with trillions of synaptic connections that will enable the student to think in more intellectually sophisticated ways, as a bulked-up muscle will enable an athlete to pump more iron. A pumped-up dependent learner is soon transformed into an independent learner. What is called the “achievement gap” between high functioning independent learners and low functioning dependent learners disappears.
Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain goes on to show how culture is the way that the brain makes sense of the world and forms our world view. We all adhere to two basic cultural archetypes, collective and individual. It tells you how to use these archetypes to create the environment to help the student to transcend the achievement gap in a step-by-step process that is complex, yet easy to follow. Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain is therefore a rich resource of techniques for transforming the lives of students. I’m sorry that I can only give it five stars: that’s the maximum that Amazon allows. It deserves ten. It’s readable, profound, and empowering. Using neuroscience, it brilliantly takes learning theory to a deeper level without being esoteric or pedantic. No teacher should get in front of a classroom until she or he has read and digested every paragraph of this book.
Amazon Customer –
Got here on time! Perfect
Remy Wells –
I ordered this book for a class. It met the description that I paid for- underlining and highlighting, but the book was in great condition overall!
Amazon Customer –
This book was a great read and opened my eyes to the culturally responsive teaching that is needed. Would recommend to others.
Ellie –
There is damage to the spine of the book which has been covered with black marker and then a piece of white tape covering it. The quality of the print inside the book is good, but this particular book I recieved is not in brand new condition.
Paula Tucker –
Hammond delivers a book with just what an aspiring, culturally responsive educator needs. Awareness through Cultural self-reflection, Tools to build partnerships with students and, Tools to build intellectual capacity. All of her work is supported by neuroscience, guidance on reflection as a teacher, and applying these tools to all struggling students no matter their culture.
She finds the common thread in the cultural archetypes and the concepts of individualism and collectivism. Hammond calls on all teachers to look deeply at Implicit bias and the structural rationalization in society.Hammond gives us reliable tools to become culturally responsive educators. . She reminds us that there are a myriad of tools we teachers can draw on. I found it so profound that if we could recognize and dismantle our cultural lens, these tools are essential to use with every student, no matter their cultural background.
Yvonnics –
Great for working with diverse populations.
Paige –
I haven’t finished this book yet but from what I’ve gotten through, I’ve really just enjoyed the overall layout of it as well as the information within. One thing I especially appreciate is the science involved in its craft. Many books like this rarely ever dig deeper into the biology and psychology of how students (and people in general) view and navigate the world and that’s SO important for an educator to know if they expect to ever have a positive impact on their students. Not only that, it’s worded in a way that isn’t just jargon that only experts in the field can understand so just about any educator can pick it up and comprehend it. It’s a refreshing book to read and study. I highly recommend it for any educator seeking to better understand themselves and their students.
tess –
All teachers and EAs should read this book. It goes beyond shallow culturally inclusive concepts and delves into reframing your classroom and pedagogical practice. It’s a simple read and really interesting.
Buyer –
This book is highly relevant to today’s classroom and the direction we need to be going as a profession. Hammond states a strong case backed with sound research and shares what this should/can look like in the classroom. This is a must read that is well worth the time. My book is highlighted, tabbed and has been re-read multiple times.
Cien Anos –
Worth reading.