How can teachers directly connect students to the curriculum?
An American educationalist, acclaimed researcher, and an award-winning author.
What did Delpit observe when using an "open classroom" concept to organize student learning?
How did Delpit believe educators could most effectively teach low-income and minority students?
What did Delpit observe when utilizing a more "traditional" teacher directed learning environment to organize learning?
How can students make sense and meaning of core curriculum?
What was Lisa Delpit's career goal?
Teach African American children and teach them well.
Children who do not receive the mainstream society's cultural learning at home should explicitly be taught the content, perspectives, and tools they need to know at school.
Using "real-life" contexts and building on students' prior experiences.
Lisa Delpit
White students zoomed ahead, while some black students learned to read but not as quickly as white students.
African American students began to improve, although they still lagged behind white students.
Establish relationships between themselves and their students, accept their students' culture and language, and help them to build on it.
