http://www.umanitoba.ca/publications/cjeap/articles/cullensinc.html
- Empathy
- Respect for the students
- Flexibility
- Self-care
- Patience
- Sense of humor
- Collegiality
- High energy level
Ruby Payne
*Taken from A Framework for Understanding Poverty
Support Systems
- Schoolwide homework support.
- Supplemental schoolwide reading programs.
- Keeping students with the same teacher(s) for tow or more years or having a school within a school.
- Teaching coping strategies.
- Schoolwide scheduling.
- Parent training and contact through video.
- Direct teaching of classroom survival skills.
- Requiring daily goal-setting and procedural self-talk.
- Team interventions.
- Teachers need to be role models, displaying desired behaviors and successful characteristics.
Support systems need to include the teaching of procedural self-talk, positive self-talk, planning, goal setting, coping strategies, appropriate relationships, options during problem-solving, access to information and know-how, and connections to additional resources.
Additional Strategies:
http://www.tolerance.org/magazine/number-31-spring-2007/question-class
- Keep stocks of school supplies, snacks, clothes and other basic necessities handy for students who may need them, but find quiet ways to distribute these resources to avoid singling anyone out.
- Never, under any circumstance, make an assumption about a student or parent - about their values, culture, or mindset - based on a single dimension of their identity.
- Fight to ensure that school meal programs offer healthy options.
- Challenge our colleagues when they stigmatize poor students and their parents, reminding them of the inequitable conditions in our schools and classrooms.
- Challenge ourselves, our biases and prejudices, by educating ourselves about the cycle of poverty and classism in and out of U.S. schools.
- Good rapport with teacher. Relationship is crucial for kids in generational poverty.
- Faculties of education and schools must work more collaboratively to effectively prepare and support teachers in more challenging schools.
