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Lisa D. Delpit
1999 Fall Forum
Remarks are forthcoming. The following was handed out by Lisa Delpit during
her talk.
Ten Factors Essential to Success in Urban Classrooms
- Do not teach less content to poor, urban children, but understand their brilliance
and teach more.
- Whatever methodology or instructional program is used, demand critical thinking.
- Assure that all children gain access to "basic skills," the conventions
and strategies that are essential to success in American education.
- Challenge racist societal views of the competence and worthiness of the children
and their families, and help them to do the same.
- Recognize and build on strenghs.
- Use familiar metaphors and experiences from the children's world to connect
what they already know to school knowledge.
- Create a sense of family and caring in the service of academic achievement.
- Monitor and assess needs and then address them with a wealth of diverse strategies.
- Honor and respect the childresn's home and ancestral culture(s).
- Foster a sense of children's connection to community - to something greater
than themselves.
Other People's Children : Cultural Conflict in the Classroom
by Lisa D. Delpit
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