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Crossing Over To Canaan : The Journey Of New Teachers In Diverse Classrooms
Hardback Edition: 1
The author of the best-selling book The Dreamkeepers shows how teachers can succeed in diverse classrooms.
Educating teachers to work well in multicultural classrooms has become an all-important educational priority in today's schools. In Crossing Over to Canaan, Gloria Ladson-Billings details the real-life stories of eight novice teachers participating in an innovative teacher education program called Teach for Diversity.
She details their struggles and triumphs as they confront challenges in the classroom and respond with innovative strategies that turn cultural strengths into academic assets. Through their experiences, Ladson-Billings illustrates how good teachers can meet the challenges of teaching students from highly diverse backgrounds - and find a way to "crossover to Canaan."
She offers a model of teaching that focuses on academic achievement, cultural competence, and socio-political consciousness.
Drawing from her own experiences as a young African-American teacher working in Philadelphia, she successfully weaves together narrative, observation, and scholarship to create an inspirational and practical book that will help teachers everywhere as they work to transcend labels and categories to support excellence among all students.
Pages : 192
Publisher : Jossey Bass-Wiley
Publication date : 2001-03-15
Subjects: Non-fiction, Education / Language / ESOL