Crossing Over to Canaan: The Journey of New Teachers in Diverse Classrooms Hardcover - 2001 - 1st Edition
by Gloria Ladson-Billings
This book details the struggles and triumphs of eight novice teachers in diverse classrooms, showing how good teachers can use innovation and "teachable moments" to turn cultural strengths into academic assets.
First line
I began teaching early adolescent students in a K-8 school in South Philadelphia in the late 1960s.
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Diversity is an issue that is not going away. The number of students who are members of "minority" groups is on the rise. Yet few teachers are prepared to adequately address the needs of students from different cultural backgrounds. What can we do to better prepare the two million new teachers who are expected to enter these classrooms during the next decade? Just as the younger Joshua rather than Moses in the end led the Israelites into the Promised Land, it will be up to these new teachers to develop a different model for teaching students who are not only multi-racial and multi-ethnic, but who differ in language, religion, learning ability, and economic backgrounds. How do you teach such a diverse group of students and unlock and inspire their innate love of learning? How do you help students achieve rigorous academic goals without sacrificing their cultural identities? Crossing Over to Canaan tells the story of eight novice teachers working in urban, elementary school settings. It details their struggles and triumphs as they confront challenges in the classroom and respond with innovative strategies that turn cultural strengths into academic assets. Gloria Ladson-Billings 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. The Author Gloria Ladson-Billings is a professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She worked for a decade as a teacher and administrator in the Philadelphia Public Schools. She is the author of The Dreamkeepers (Jossey-Bass, 1997).
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- Title Crossing Over to Canaan: The Journey of New Teachers in Diverse Classrooms
- Author Gloria Ladson-Billings
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 192
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
- Date 2001-03-29
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9780787950019 / 0787950017
- Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
- Dimensions 9.1 x 6.2 x 0.9 in (23.11 x 15.75 x 2.29 cm)
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: Multicultural
- Library of Congress subjects African American students - Education, African American students
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00011965
- Dewey Decimal Code 371.829
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Citations
- Choice, 10/01/2001, Page 363
- Library Journal, 05/01/2001, Page 104
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