Connecting with Students

Strategies for Building Rapport with Urban Learners

Crystal Higgs (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

96 Seiten

2013
Rowman & Littlefield Education (Verlag)
978-1-4758-0682-3 (ISBN)

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This book focuses on how educators can efficiently establish ongoing rapport with each student through three simple steps: Seeing beyond barriers, sharing their intentions, and showing their "face".

Connecting with Students: Strategies for Building Rapport with Urban Learners focuses on how educators can efficiently establish ongoing rapport with each student through three simple steps: Seeing beyond barriers, sharing their intentions, and showing their "face". Chapter details are narrated through anecdotal experiences, confirmed by research, and seconded by actual urban learners. Educators are prompted to consistently reflect on their classroom practices and implement new strategies and techniques. This text will provide immediate strategies and techniques to build relational capacity in the urban classroom, so that frustration levels are lowered, classroom management is enhanced and academic deficiencies can be addressed. The content of the text is delivered in a multi-genre format. Within the narration there are several true anecdotes, analogies, extended metaphors, dialogue, and genuine student reflections on teaching.

Crystal Higgs attended an urban elementary, middle, and high school located in the eleventh largest school district in the nation, Orange County Public Schools, where she now teaches. During her quest to provide the best instruction for her urban students, she received her Masters of Science in Urban Studies Education and her Educational Specialist Degree in English from Nova Southeastern University in Davie, Florida.

Preface

Introduction

Part One: See Beyond the Barriers
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Mistakes as Barriers
Difficulty as a Barrier

Part Two: Show Your Face
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Show Students Your World
Show Students You Have Time
Show Students You Believe in Individuality
Show Respect for Identity

Part Three: Share Your Intentions
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Intention to be Attentive
Intention to Uplift
Intention to Influence
Intention to Believe
Intention to Assist

Conclusion

References

Appendix
Reflection Exercises Revisited

Erscheint lt. Verlag	16.12.2013
Zusatzinfo	3 tables
Sprache	englisch
Maße	159 x 239 mm
Gewicht	290 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Didaktik
ISBN-10	1-4758-0682-5 / 1475806825
ISBN-13	978-1-4758-0682-3 / 9781475806823
Zustand	Neuware