Teaching With Poverty in Mind

Teaching with Poverty in Mind by Eric Jensen is a book surrounding what being poor does to kids' brains and what schools can do about it. This book was given to each staff member at my internship. The idea is that each week we are to read a chapter and then at the end of the week during staff meetings, the chapter will be discussed. The school at which i am interning has a high population of low-socioeconomic students so this book will be extremely helpful. The book goes over the ways in which poverty affects a child's brain development and how that affects their education. Each chapter demonstrates how teachers or other school staff may perceive particular behaviors of low-SES students when they have not been properly trained and how they can help better support these students. Each chapter is broken down with techniques and research as to why and how this works in the school setting. I have not read the entire book yet as we just received it in our school but so far it has already been extremely helpful!