This session highlights real issues teachers face when teaching students living in poverty and provides strategies for success for both students and teachers. This session helps you connect, engage, and increase student achievement, by using strategies and techniques that foster a growth mindset, creates a risk-tolerant culture for learning, and ways to improve classroom instruction to meet the particular academic needs of students.
"The mediocre teacher tells, the good teacher explains, the superior teacher demonstrates, the great teacher inspires." - William Arthur Ward. If you want to take your mediocre blah, blah, blahs and transform them into ways to inspire your students, join us for an interactive, strategy-packed hour. In this session, we will explore the "Sage on the Stage" vs "Guide on the Side" teacher roles. Participants will be challenged to move beyond the traditional and embrace a variety of student-centered instructional practices to best meet the needs of all learners.
Session attendees will participate in a poverty simulation game that will give them an insight into the lives of families of poverty. When the game concludes, attendees will be provided with strategies to use in the classroom to plan effective instruction with high expectations for children of poverty.
