Planning for Effective and Culturally Responsive Teaching and Learning: Strategies that Ensure Equity and High Achievement - Softcover

McKinley Ed.D., Johnnie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1419697455 ISBN 13: 9781419697456

Publisher: BookSurge Publishing, 2009

Synopsis

A necessary and expertly penned planning book and tutorial, Planning for Effective and Culturally Responsive Classrooms: Strategies that Ensure Equity and High Achievement for All Students by author and educator Johnnie McKinley, Ed. D. serves at-risk students and raises the bar on educational protocols. A definitive guide on how to implement culturally receptive programs, this text provides benchmark research on its essentialness in classrooms, lecture halls and boardrooms. Comprised of ten chapter among five subsections including, “Expectations and Equity,” “Contextual Features and Classroom Environment,” “Instructional Planning,” and “Student-Teacher Academic Interaction,” and “Instruction,” the author explores a number of avenues of how teachers might approach instruction in response to their students’ cultures, race, gender and class. Illuminating as a tool and indispensable as an introduction, this book has forty planning pages to assist educators as they develop action plans.

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About the Author

With a master’s degree in applied behavioral science, Johnnie McKinley received her doctorate in educational leadership and business administration from Seattle University. She is the recipient of the KCTS/Seattle Public Television Excellence in Education and Seattle Committee for Excellence in Education awards. Her research on effective teaching strategies for African American students has been presented at over fifty national and international conferences and was nominated for the 2005 American Educational Research Association and 2005 National Staff Development Council Dissertation Awards. Currently, she is Director of Achievement and Equity in Puyallup Schools where she helps to develop initiatives for student, parent, and teacher support and interventions to raise achievement for minority students and serves as adjunct professor in educational psychology in the College of Education at the University of Washington. She is the mother of three sons and resides in Seattle, Washington.

Edition details

• Publisher: BookSurge Publishing
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1419697455
• ISBN 13: 9781419697456
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 136