The Keys to Effective Teaching: Culturally Revelant Teaching Strategies

By Dameion Cowans Sr.

The COWANS method revolves around communication, ownership, wins, analysis, negativity, and structure.

Geared to help students in urban settings, the method was designed to help students to make permanent changes to achieve academic success.

Dameion Cowans Sr. highlights ways to create a warm classroom culture to promote learning. He explores how teachers can use the method to:

help students with various learning styles;
assist teachers in mastering classroom management;
celebrate successes as students achieve milestones;
address the root cause of bullying.

The author also focuses on why classroom norms are so essential, noting that without norms, students often roam, act maliciously, or become defiant. Students will follow norms if they are consistent and fair—and teachers must model them from the beginning.

Help students achieve success today and for years to come by learning The Keys to Effective Teaching.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Jun 23, 2021
• ISBN: 9781664235045

Dameion Cowans Sr.

Dameion Cowans Sr. ploughed through the public school system of Birmingham, Alabama, as an at risk, troubled youth. His schools’ standard curricula curtailed his interest in learning and stunted his academic growth. His experiences prompted him to curate the COWANS method. Cowans is now a middle school teacher with more than five years of experience teaching large classes and the founder of Cowans Consulting, LLC, an educational consulting firm.

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ISBN: 978-1-6642-3503-8 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-6642-3502-1 (hc)

ISBN: 978-1-6642-3504-5 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2021910601

WestBow Press rev. date: 05/24/2021

CONTENTS

Introduction

Framing the Problem

What Is Social-Emotional Learning (SEL)?

Why COWANS SEL?

How to Identify Your Scholars

Behavior

Climate and Peer Interaction

Culture-Teaching SEL to ELLs and Minorities

Student Engagement

Student Intrinsic Motivation

Differentiation

Teaching the COWANS Method

Sample Lesson: Tailoring SEL while Teaching Forty-Five-Minute Courses

Effective Virtual Teaching

Principals’ Corner

What Is Social-Emotional Learning (SEL)?

Student Intrinsic Motivation

My Life

Vision

Identifying Yourself

SEL Calendar

Remind Me 10:10

My Journal and Thoughts

Glossary

Students Learning Assessment

Explanation For Selected Learning Styles

(Student Data Tracker) Behavior, Attendance, Engagement,

Assignment Production,