Title: Using equity audits in the classroom to reach and teach all students
Description: "Raise your equity awareness quotient</em></strong>In this time of changing demographics and increased diversity, many teachers find that existing strategies to promote social justice are only successful with some of the students in their classes. This book provides teachers with new strategies and tools that will work for all children, including those with diverse needs. This book offers a wide range of methods to help teachers:   Assess their competency in teaching all students  Develop high-quality teaching skills and an equity consciousness that leads to success with all students   Evaluate assess student achievement Create an environment that fosters self-reflection and change"-- Provided by publisher.

"This is the follow-up book to the Corwin "best seller" Using Equity Audits to Create Equitable and Excellent Schools. Whereas Using Equity Audits was written mainly for school leaders, this book, Equity Audits for Teachers: Creating Equitable and Excellent Classrooms, focuses on teacher and classroom practices. Although school leaders have found the Equity Audits book useful, they have requested more strategies for teachers. They want a companion book they can give teachers and use in teacher study groups. This book is important because in this time of changing demographics and increased diversity, many teachers find that the strategies they have used in the past are successful with only some of the students in their classes. They want and need strategies that will assist them in being successful with all their students. This book will provide teachers with new strategies and skills that will fit diverse needs. The book will also include a discussion of the history of equity auditing in education found in civil rights work, curriculum auditing, and state accountability systems"-- Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Educational equalization, EDUCATION / Evaluation, Classroom environment, Evaluation, School improvement programs, Effective teaching
Places: United States