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    Teaching With Poverty in Mind: What Being Poor Does to Kids' Brains and What Schools Can Do About It
    Teaching With Poverty in Mind: What Being Poor Does to Kids' Brains and What Schools Can Do About It
    Teaching With Poverty in Mind: What Being Poor Does to Kids' Brains and What Schools Can Do About It
    Audiobook6 hours

    Teaching With Poverty in Mind: What Being Poor Does to Kids' Brains and What Schools Can Do About It

    Written by Eric Jensen

    Narrated by Basil Sands

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    About this audiobook

    In Teaching with Poverty in Mind: What Being Poor Does to Kids' Brains and What Schools Can Do About It, veteran educator and brain expert Eric Jensen takes an unflinching look at how poverty hurts children, families, and communities across the United States and demonstrates how schools can improve the academic achievement and life readiness of economically disadvantaged students.

    Jensen argues that although chronic exposure to poverty can result in detrimental changes to the brain, the brain's very ability to adapt from experience means that poor children can also experience emotional, social, and academic success. A brain that is susceptible to adverse environmental effects is equally susceptible to the positive effects of rich, balanced learning environments and caring relationships that build students' resilience, self-esteem, and character.

    Drawing from research, experience, and real school success stories, Teaching with Poverty in Mind reveals what poverty is and how it affects students in school; what drives change both at the macro level (within schools and districts) and at the micro level (inside a student's brain); effective strategies from those who have succeeded and ways to replicate those best practices at your own school; and how to engage the resources necessary to make change happen.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateFeb 12, 2019
    ISBN9781541476417
    Teaching With Poverty in Mind: What Being Poor Does to Kids' Brains and What Schools Can Do About It

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    • 5/5
      I have been a Montessori teacher and autism support professional for over 20 years. I want to start a Montessori school for young children with autism. So much of Eric Jensen’s book could be applied to working with children with autism, their families and their teachers. Data collection, attracting and keeping excellent teachers, empathy not pity, enrichment not remediation, how to grow brains and increase IQs, the importance of nutrition…this is a great book for anyone working with children with low SES and/or autism. Very grateful to have come across this book and all of Eric Jensen’s books.
    • 5/5
      I loved it. Wonderful look at how best to educate our children.
    • 3/5
      I enjoyed the overall theme of this book - that all students can learn, hope is the key, and that the research backs this up. I felt like a great deal of this book was more or less common knowledge for educators who work in schools with a majority student population living in poverty, but that its message that we need to continue to push all students was an important one. The part of the book that struck me the most was that as teachers, we need to have empathy for students from poor backgrounds - not pity. It is a subtle distinction, but it makes sense and should define a teachers outlook.