Summary of Zaretta L. Hammond's Culturally Responsive Teaching and The Brain

By IRB Media

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#1 The American education system has created an epidemic of dependent learners who are unprepared to do the higher order thinking and creative problem solving required by the new Common Core State Standards.

#2 The school-to-prison pipeline is a set of seemingly unconnected school policies and teacher instructional decisions that over time result in students of color not receiving adequate literacy and content instruction while being disproportionately disciplined for nonspecific, subjective offenses.

#3 The achievement gap between white and minority students is due to the fact that we don’t teach students with cognitively disadvantaged backgrounds the skills they need to be independent learners.

#4 Culturally responsive teaching is a pedagogical approach that helps students build intellective capacity, also called fluid intelligence and intellective competence. It is based on the learning theory and cognitive science.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Mar 24, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669369974

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#1

The American education system has created an epidemic of dependent learners who are unprepared to do the higher order thinking and creative problem solving required by the new Common Core State Standards.

#2

The school-to-prison pipeline is a set of seemingly unconnected school policies and teacher instructional decisions that over time result in students of color not receiving adequate literacy and content instruction while being disproportionately disciplined for nonspecific, subjective offenses.

#3

The achievement gap between white and minority students is due to the fact that we don’t teach students with cognitively disadvantaged backgrounds the skills they need to be independent learners.

#4

Culturally responsive teaching is a pedagogical approach that helps students build intellective capacity, also called fluid intelligence and intellective competence. It is based on the learning theory and cognitive science.

#5

The four core areas of the Ready for Rigor framework are social, emotional, and cognitive conditions, and active engagement. When the tools and strategies of each area are blended together, they create the conditions that allow students to more actively engage and take ownership of their learning process.

#6

To successfully teach students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, teachers must place instruction within the larger sociopolitical context. This first practice area helps teachers develop a sociopolitical consciousness, an understanding that they live