How to Teach Students Who Don′t Look Like You: Culturally Responsive Teaching Strategies

by Bonnie M. Davis

Engage diverse learners in your classroom with culturally responsive instruction!

How to Teach Students Who Don′t Look like You helps educators recognize the impact that culture has on the learning process. The term "diverse learners" encompasses a variety of student groups, including homeless children, migrant children, English language learners, children experiencing gender identity issues, children with learning disabilities, and children with special needs.

This revised second edition reflects the latest trends in education, and includes new coverage of standards-based, culturally responsive lesson planning and instruction, differentiated instruction, RTI, and the Common Core State Standards. Bonnie M. Davis helps all

Tailor instruction to their own unique student population Reflect on their own cultures and how this shapes their views of the worldCultivate a deeper understanding of race and racism in the U.S.Create culturally responsive instructionUnderstand culture and how it affects learningHow to Teach Students Who Don′t Look like You provides crucial strategies to assist educators in addressing the needs of diverse learners and closing the achievement gap.

"This book ′fires up′ educators by speaking from the soul to reach the heart, from the research to engage the mind, and from the skillful hand to build the necessary expertise."—Peggy Dickerson, Professional Service ProviderRegion XIII Texas Education Service Center, Austin, TX

"The vignettes and classroom situations help the reader understand how race plays out in our society and in our classrooms. Dr. Davis takes on a very volatile topic and is able to engage the reader without offending. The examples, vignettes, cases, and stories will hook the readers just as they did me. Once I began reading the book, I could not put it down."—Ava Maria Whittemore, Minority Achievement CoordinatorFrederick County Public Schools, MD

Genres: Education, Teaching, Nonfiction

508 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2005

Reviews

[Kelli · Rating 3 out of 5]

I had to read this book for a class at my college. There were some helpful things in here and I took note of them. But some portions felt copy/paste from another section (thinking specifically of the how to connect to different ethnicities). Other portions felt very white savior and look how awesome I am for being culturally aware. I also didn’t love the everyone should go to college line. Should students believe they’re smart enough and good enough? Yes. 100%. But in that same breath, college is not for everyone and no one should feel like they must go to college. There are plenty of careers that make decent livings without college degrees. A college degree is not a sign of success. But don’t push financial burden and at least four more years of education on someone unless that’s what they want.

Overall, it was fine. Not great, not terrible. I hoped for better. I only finished it because I have to do a project on it later.

[Crystal Chodes-Squibb · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is a good foundation for culturally relevant teaching practices. I do wish it went more in-depth in chapters 11-17, however, it’s a great tool to get courageous conversations started in your school.

[Sara · Rating 3 out of 5]

Was hoping to use this book for a college course I teach, but I'm not sure if I will. I really like the overall layout, but I wish it would have given a bit more of the content behind some of the ideas, especially the sections on culture. I will definitely use some of the material and I think it's a great resource to pull from. I can see that it would be a great resource to use for workshops with teachers already in the classroom.

[Barbara Lovejoy · Rating 5 out of 5]

I wasn't sure when I first started to read this book that it was going to contain anything I hadn't already learned BUT it turned out to be an incredible resource that I will refer to again and again as we start Esperanza Elementary, our charter school.

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Not adding a star rating since my biggest gripe is not the book's fault. This text was assigned but to a class of mostly preservice teachers. That negates the potential usefulness almost completely.

[Rachael Jones · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a great resource book for perspective and tools to use. It was a textbook so I didn't enjoy it like I would others potentially.