Finding Joy in Teaching Students of Diverse Backgrounds: Culturally Responsive and Socially Just Practices in U.S. Classrooms

by Sonia Nieto

Book Overview

"While no check-list of attitudes, dispositions, behaviors, or actions can define what thriving teachers look like, the teachers interviewed here give us powerful examples of what it takes to face their profession with courage, their content with enthusiasm, and their students with love."
--Sonia Nieto

One in four public school students in the U.S. now speaks a language other than English at home, and the number of emergent bilingual...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0325027153
• ISBN13: 9780325027159
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.4" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Kindergarten to Grade 12