Thursday, April 4, 2013

Tools for Teaching: Ditching The Deficit Model

Tools for Teaching: Ditching The Deficit Model


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Building on Strengths and Interests

As teachers, we must evaluate where students are academically, and this includes their literacy and behavioral development as well as content knowledge. And the best way to serve and support those identified areas of need is to use research-based best practices to help students grow and catch up when they are missing information and/or skills.
But what if from there, we used their talents, their abundance of abilities and skills -- those jewels -- to meet those needs?