Considers what educators can do to promote quality instruction that prevents, or at least lessens, the incidence of school failure in minority children. Discusses a brief perspective of "The School Development Program," and presents a description of three workshops. (SC)

Discusses ways in which early childhood programs can support families of minority children in White adoptive homes. (PCB)

Finds the motivational profiles of five groups of students (three indigenous minority groups and two nonindigenous groups) rather than being significantly different, had much in common. Notes that important predictors of a range of school achievement criteria were goals relating to students' self-esteem at school, sense of purpose, striving for…

Reviews studies on prejudice and children focusing on how children learn prejudice and what can be done to prevent it. Offers three activity and discussion ideas which can be used to develop children's awareness of inappropriate prejudgments. Identifies a selection of related instructional resources and includes a 34-item bibliography. (JDH)

Describes strategies to assist special education teachers in partnering with families of diverse learners to provide opportunities for family involvement. Discusses the creation of a climate in which diversity enhances rather than challenges the process of intervention with children with disabilities. (CR)

Describes a program in which first-grade minority group children wrote the books to stock a classroom library. (FL)

Minority children need broad experiences basic to literacy development that narrowly conceived curricula cannot provide. Parent interactions and first school encounters can provide daily experiences with print, writing, and stories. The time the teacher takes to involve parents in programs for minority children, by explaining activities that can…

A teacher of gifted minority children explains how to conduct a hands-on science experiment investigating how many drops of water can fit on a penny. Four different student activities that teach concepts such as the necessity of controlling variables in scientific experiments are described. (CR)

Describes how to help children comprehend what they read using an experience-text-relationship method of discussing and reading class material. (MKM)

Intended to provide a natural and positive way to introduce young children to the stories told by different ethnic groups, this paper suggests a series of language activities that adapt folktales from around the world for classroom use to enable young children to read the stories for themselves. The paper notes that these activities are…

This resource kit, which can be used with an accompanying videotape and written materials, shows how three English secondary schools have succeeded in raising the achievement of their ethnic minority students by increasing expectations of what each student is capable of, valuing diversity, working in partnership with parents, and encouraging…

Finds that, compared to national norms, academically at-risk students (a sample of 2,793 academically at-risk students at 14 urban, large, predominantly minority middle or junior high schools) are more apprehensive of communication and lower in self-perceived communication competence. Suggests several pedagogical strategies for responding to…

This handbook of culturally responsive ways to teach the basic, mandated curriculum to students from diverse backgrounds was developed by a multicultural group of teachers. The techniques draw on the students' diverse backgrounds to increase student motivation and maximize teacher effectiveness by decreasing the mismatch between the students' home…

The Structure of Intellect (SOI) learning abilities test and curriculum emphasize teaching that promotes individualized learning and divergent thinking and recognize special problems in identifying underachievers, minority gifted students, and differing abilities in boys and girls. The model addresses these variations by taking the view that…

Guidelines for effectively teaching minority students, Grades K-6, are presented in this manual, which is divided into six sections. Each section presents a different teaching principle, explains the rationale behind it, and provides a list of suggestions and/or comments from teachers. The six principles are: (1) Every child can learn if you have…