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Teaching Children Of Poverty By Sandra Darling: Summary

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My third book review discussion was about the book Why Culture Counts: Teaching Children of Poverty by Donna Tileston and Sandra Darling. I chose this book because I teach in a school where more than 70% of the students qualify for free or reduced lunch. In my opinion, this is a must read book for anyone in a teacher prep program. I really enjoyed the way the author not only described the differences in how children of poverty and other cultures learned, but also why they learn the way they do. She goes in depth about the psychological and cognitive aspects of learning. These students have very different experiences, values and motivations, and these effect how the brain works. Understanding how their brain processes information was the “A-HA”
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