Instructing African-American Students
Young, C., Laster, J. and Wright, J., (2005). Instructing African-American students. Education 125(3), pp.216-525.
Teachers must begin to examine the instructional process utilized in urban public schools. And, with the achievement gap slowly closing, they must identify effective teaching strategies for those children who have traditionally underachieved. Now more than ever, there is a need to examine the role of culture and its impact of learning styles in the classroom if we are to develop viable ways to educate urban children.
Intent
The aforementioned article postulates that teaching styles are significantly linked to educational achievement for African-American students. The prime intent of this article is to illustrate, through research-based findings, that the African American children learn differently than do their Caucasian counterparts.
Young et al (2005) notes that there are two main learning styles: global and analytical. A global......
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