Description
A necessary and expertly penned planning book and tutorial, Planning for Effective and Culturally Responsive Classrooms: Strategies that Ensure Equity and High Achievement for All Students by author and educator Johnnie McKinley, Ed. D. serves at-risk students and raises the bar on educational protocols. A definitive guide on how to implement culturally receptive programs, this text provides benchmark research on its essentialness in classrooms, lecture halls and boardrooms. Comprised of ten chapter among five subsections including, “Expectations and Equity,” “Contextual Features and Classroom Environment,” “Instructional Planning,” and “Student-Teacher Academic Interaction,” and “Instruction,” the author explores a number of avenues of how teachers might approach instruction in response to their students’ cultures, race, gender and class. Illuminating as a tool and indispensable as an introduction, this book has forty planning pages to assist educators as they develop action plans.
