Children of Poverty

This course provides educators with an opportunity to look closely at a research-based professional text focused on the impact of trauma on children of poverty: Engaging Students With Poverty in Mind by Eric Jensen. The content of the text describes factors that are crucial to student engagement strongly connected to socioeconomic status. Engagement strategies educators can use are explored that empower learners and are essential for student achievement and success.

The course focus includes: creating a positive and high-energy classroom environment focused on student engagement, building students’ cognitive capacity including a deeper understanding of content and increasing student motivation and effort. Participants learn and utilize a variety of strategies that can be modeled in the classroom with their students when reading and writing, as they participate in group reading discussions. Co-construction of learning and a focus on The Four Lenses of Learning and The Five Reading Writing Talking Processes provide the foundation for course discussions.

Participants will need to purchase the Eric Jensen book for class.