Section 2: Students and Families

Section Lessons 

• Chapter 1: Culturally Responsive Teaching

  • • What is Culturally Responsive Teaching?

    • Teaching Black Students 

    • Teaching Latinx Students 

    • Teaching Asian Students 

    • Teaching Muslim Students

    • Teaching Jewish Students

    • Teaching Girls

    • Teaching Boys

    • Educating Urban Youth 

    • Microaggressions in the Classroom 

    • Promoting a Culturally Inclusive Environment 

    • Selecting and Utilizing Literature in a Diverse America

    • Anti-Racist Teaching

    • Social Justice Education 

    • Critical Race Theory: What’s the Controversy About?

• Chapter 2: Teaching Students with Special Needs

  • • ADHD

    • Autism

    • Gifted Students

    • Specific Learning Disabilities 

    • Inclusion

    • Down Syndrome

• Chapter 3: Helping Special Populations Succeed Inside and Outside the Classroom

  • • Social and Emotional Learning 

    • Trauma-informed Instruction 

    • Strategies for Helping Students with Social Anxiety 

    • LGB Students 

    • Transgender & Gender Non-Conforming Students 

    • Students with Special Health Issues (Depression, Terminal illnesses, Obesity, etc.) 

    • Teaching English Language Learners 

    • Teaching Newcomers (Immigrants)

• Chapter 4: Influences of Class and Family

  • • Parental Involvement 

    • Title I Schools 

    • Impacts of Class 

    • School Funding

    • School Lunch Programs 

    • Poverty 

    • Drop-Outs 

    • Single-parent Families 

    • Student Mobility (kids who change schools frequently) 

    • Military Families 

• Chapter 5: Peer Influences

  • • Bullying 

    • Cyberbullying 

    • The Influence of Social Media on Students’ School Experiences

    • Digital Youth Culture

    • Teen Pregnancy 

    • Extracurricular Activities