Home Visits, Critical Reflection, and other Valuable Lessons
In my first year as a full-time teacher, I taught at a St. Paul charter school with a focus on Hmong language and culture. One way that the school supports teachers in learning more about students and their families is through home visits the week before
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Developing and Supporting Critically Reflective Teachers Diverse Perspectives in the Twenty-First Century
Foreword by H. Richard Milner IV
Edited by Frank Hernandez Southern Methodist University, USA and Rachel Endo Hamline University, USA
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ISBN: 978-94-6300-984-3 (paperback) ISBN: 978-94-6300-985-0 (hardback) ISBN: 978-94-6300-986-7 (e-book)
Published by: Sense Publishers, P.O. Box 21858, 3001 AW Rotterdam, The Netherlands https://www.sensepublishers.com/
All chapters in this book have undergone peer review.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Forewordvii H. Richard Milner IV Acknowledgementsxi 1. Developing and Supporting Critically Reflective Teachers Frank Hernandez and Rachel Endo 2. Critical Reflection: Making Connections to Past Experiences Janet Beacom
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3. Celebrating “Not the Way to Say It”: Embracing Students as Critical Thinkers and Writers Katya Jaede
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4. A Journey Toward Critical Reflection: Into the World of Culturally Responsive Teaching Angela Kieffer
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5. Teaching to Change Ourselves and Our Society Kristen Melby
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6. Fostering a Growth Mindset Regina Santiago
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7. Home Visits, Critical Reflection, and Other Valuable Lessons: Becoming a Culturally Competent Teacher Katy Siegel 8. Implications for Practice and Theory Frank Hernandez and Rachel Endo
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H. RICHARD MILNER IV
FOREWORD
This is a powerfully important book – filled with real teachers’ accounts of their critical reflective moments and practices, designed to more effectively meet the needs of all students. What is particularly important about the collection of these chapters is the centralization of practicing teachers’ reflective voices, demonstrating a level of value and authority from which any of us can (and should) learn. Indeed, practicing teachers possess a wide array of knowledge and knowing that influence their practices, and we need texts that showcase the visible (and what might be seen as invisible) nature of their work and instructional moves. Moreover, with its interconnected focus on equity, culture, race and practices, this book addresses, head-on, the very issues that scholarly and practitioner texts should. Students living below the poverty line, those of colour (especially Black and Brown students), those whose first language is not English, and those who have a disability tend to be grossly underserved in public schools across the US. Although some would blame these groups of students for the ineffectiveness of the US educational system, it is c
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