Biography-Driven Culturally Responsive Teaching: Honoring Race, Ethnicity, and Personal History

ISBN-13: 9780807766484 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022

Socorro G. Herrera

Spis treści

• Contents
• Foreword Geneva Gay vii
• Preface: My Life, My Work ix
• Acknowledgments xv
• Introduction 1
• 1 The Foundations of Biography-Driven Instruction 4
• The Influence of Politics on CLD Student Education 5
• Access Denied: Limiting Programs for CLD Learners 6
• What's Love Got to Do With It? Everything 8
• The Foundations of Biography-Driven Instruction 9
• Charting the Course Toward Liberatory Practices 9
• I Need You, and You Need Me: Learning as a Social Practice 12
• Teaching and Learning in the Third Space 14
• Research Into How the Brain Learns 14
• Making It Happen! How This Book Can Guide Next Steps 17
• 2 Biography-Driven Instruction 18
• Biopsychosocial History 19
• Confronting Our Reality: Invisible External and Internal Forces 20
• The CLD Student Biography 27
• The Sociocultural Dimension 27
• Reflections on the Sociocultural Dimension 33
• 3 Language of the Heart 35
• The Linguistic Dimension 35
• Reflections on the Linguistic Dimension 46
• 4 Culture-Driven Thought and Learning 47
• The Cognitive Dimension 47
• Reflections on the Cognitive Dimension 59
• 5 Academics: More Than a Test Score or Grade 60
• The Academic Dimension 60
• Reflections on the Academic Dimension 67
• 6 Biography-Driven Planning, Teaching, and Assessing 72
• Contextual and Situational Processes 72
• Contextual and Situational Teaching 75
• Biography-Driven Instruction: A Culturally Responsive Method 78
• Reflections on Valuing the Student in Teaching 92
• 7 Activation: A Canvas of Opportunity 93
• Socioculturally Speaking 94
• Transparency in Teaching 95
• Linguistically Speaking: How Vocabulary Fits Into the Picture 99
• Cognitively Speaking: Creating a Canvas of Opportunity for Disclosure 106
• Reflections on Activating What Students Know 110
• 8 Connection: Navigating From the Known to the Unknown 112
• Transformative Comprehensible Input 113
• Activities Versus Strategies 117
• Navigating Socioemotional States of Mind 121
• Scaffolding From Student Words/Thoughts to New Learning 129
• Students Negotiate Meaning 133
• Reflections on Connecting Lessons to Our Students' Lives 136
• 9 Affirmation: Evidence-Based Celebration of Linguistic and Academic Learning 137
• Emotion, Cognition, and Assessment 137
• Formative Assessment 140
• Learning Strategies as a Bridge to Summative Assessment 146
• Review, Rehearsal, and Retrieval 147
• Reflections on Affirming Student Learning Through Assessment 151
• 10 Biography-Driven Pedagogical Action: Voices of Care, Hope, and Academic Achievement 153
• A Different Type of Agenda 154
• BDI and Research-Based Standards 154
• Action and Transformation: The Schoolwide Impact of BDI 158
• Voices From the Field 161
• Through the Eyes of a Student 167
• Final Reflections 168
• Glossary 177
• Appendices 181
• Appendix A: Critical Reflection Using the Reflection Wheel Journal 182
• Appendix B: CLD Student Biography Card: Template 184
• Appendix C: DOTS Strategy (Determine, Observe, Talk, Summarize) 185
• Appendix D: Mind Map 186
• Appendix E: Vocabulary Quilt 187
• Appendix F: Ignite, Discover, Extend, Affirm (IDEA) 188
• Appendix G: Thumb Challenge 189
• Appendix H: Uncover, Concentrate, Monitor, Evaluate (U-C-ME) 190
• Appendix I: Quick Guide to Biography-Driven Instructional Concepts 191
• List of Instructional Aids Available Online (tcpress.com) :
• Discussion Guide, Templates, Rubrics, and Checklist 192
• References 193
• Index 201
• About the Author 208