Teaching withPoverty in MindDr. Eric Jensen

The official poverty measure is a specific dollar amount that varies by family size. According to the guidelines, the poverty level is $22,050 a year for a family of four and $18,310 for a family of three.

Current measures do not accurately account for living in urban or rural locations, family expenditures, government assistance or available resources.

How Do We Measure Poverty?

In North Carolina, there are 1,214,672 families, with 2,227,476 children.

Poor Children: 22% (494,023) of children live in poor families. (National: 21%)

Statistics

Statistics

Prevalence of Food Insecurity Average 2006-08

Statistics Twenty percent of Greensboro’s families live in

poverty.

Twenty-five percent of Greensboro and High Point families struggle to feed their themselves.

The two cities together are ranked 4th nationally in the number of families who say they don’t have enough money for food. (Winston-Salem ranked third and Asheville ranked 7th)

Greensboro News and Record.Kernels, Mike. "Going Hungry in Guilford." March 19, 2011. http://

www.newsrecord.com/content/2011/03/19/article/going_hungry_in_guilford

Statistics North Carolina ranks 6th nationally in food hardship.

The state has 443,000 children living in poverty. Out of the above, 8,597 become homeless each year

— one out of every 25 — with 1,717 currently living in Guilford County.

Greensboro News and Record.Kernels, Mike. "Going Hungry in Guilford." March 19, 2011. http://

www.newsrecord.com/content/2011/03/19/article/going_hungry_in_guilford

Types of Poverty (22% of all children) Absolute vs. Relative Poverty

Scarcity of necessities – shelter, food, water (Daily food scarcity - Will we eat today?)

Insufficient Income (60 million people live on 27 dollars a day – 1 in 5... And this is increasing)

Generalization vs. Situational Poverty Two or more generations with no increase in

assets and living in poverty Poverty due sudden crisis or loss(job, theft,

medical)

Urban vs. Rural Occurs in metro areas – children deal with more

acute stressors such as overcrowding, violence, noise

Less access to resources –serves, support, etc.

Poverty is a chronic condition. It negatively affects the mind, body and soul in a synergetic way. The results are multiple adverse risk factors.

Types of Poverty (22% of all children)

How does each type affect learning?

Absolute vs. Relative Poverty Generalization vs. Situational Poverty Urban vs. Rural

Types of Poverty (22% of all children)

Emotional and Social Challenges

Acute and Chronic Stressors

Cognitive Lags

Health and Safety Issues

Effects of Poverty (22% of all children)

Emotional Keyboard

Social Challenges

Number of Stressors

Chronic Stress

Normal and Chronic Stress

Positive Stress Negative Stress

http://www.patrickholford.com

Normal and Stress-exposed Neuron

When neurons are exposed to to much stress, dendrites wither and die off.

Cognitive Stimulation

Health and Safety Issues

36th President Lyndon B. Johnson

1963-1969War on Poverty

Skills: Every lesson-Every day Attention and focus skills. Short- and long-term memory. Sequencing and processing skills. Problem-solving skills. Perseverance and ability to apply skills in the

long term. Social skills. Hopefulness and self-esteem.

National Center for Children of Poverty http://www.nccp.org/

This site includes many statistics about children in poverty. It also includes research information, projects, state profiles and publications. Very useful information for policy makers, educators and parents.

Ten Most Effective Tips Using Brain-based Teaching and Learninghttp://www.jensenlearning.com/pdf/10MostEffectiveTips.pdf

This site gives a quick review of brain-based learning strategies, their effects and how they should be implemented.

iPad VersionDr. Elizabeth R. Hubbell

New Arrangement of Marzano’s Nine Instructional Strategies

Dramatization/simulation/modeling

Experiment

Assessment

Independent practice or worksheet

Individual student interview/demonstration

Learning game

Oral reading

Peer teaching

Student discussion

Student drawing/graphic organizing

Student performance/presentation

Silent reading (little evidence)

Student writing/journaling

Teacher directed lecture (little evidence)

Teacher directed question/answer

No evidence

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Evidence of Learning

None

Brainstorming/Idea Mapping Software

Clickers

Communication tool

Diagnostic/prescriptive system

Interactive whiteboard

Multimedia (showing)

Spreadsheet

Web-based research

Other (make note)

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86

485

78

2244

719

48

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494

Teacher Use of Technology

http://www.auhsdonline.org/ipads-ipods

https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dfvwdtqp_1266gnjc7ts8

https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?hl=en&hl=en&key=tr00d--mDOsWawtbstmsB8Q&authkey=CO-B6acC#gid=0

(Shared Apps Spreadsheet – Elizabeth Hubbell)

Link to Shared List of Apps

Khan Academy-Rethinking Instruction

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