WORKSHOP CANCELLED: Poverty Part II: Instructional Strategies for the Under Resourced Learner
Description
This course provides educators with knowledge and skills to better assist the under-resourced learner. Many of our students from poverty have not developed planning skills because of the survival mode they are experiencing.
Teachers and other service providers who have participated in this class often insist that many of their students do not have the mental models - being able to “see” something - because of their lack of life experiences. This class demonstrates how mental models help our students be successful in each class. Low vocabulary, commonly found in generational poverty homes, can result in huge disadvantages in education and life. When one only knows casual register of language, there is a lack of abstract words on which our learning is based. Reading strategies will also be examined - a skill that our students from poverty often can benefit from greatly.
Participants will be provided time to discuss and plan how this information can be implemented into the classroom and service agency.
The work of Reuven Feuerstein and Ruby Payne will be examined.
Part I is a prerequisite to Part II.
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