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A Framework for Understanding Poverty
By Jeremy | December 5, 2006
â—†Each individual has eight resources which greatly influence achievement; money is only one. â—†Poverty is the extent to which an individual is without these eight resources. â—†The hidden rules of the middle class govern schools and work; students from generational poverty come with a completely different set of hidden rules and do not know middleclass hidden rules. â—†Language issues and the story structure of casual register cause many students from generational poverty to be unmediated, and therefore, the cognitive structures needed inside the mind to learn at the levels required by state tests have not been fully developed. â—†Teaching is what happens outside the head; learning is what happens inside the head. For these students to learn, direct teaching must occur to build these cognitive structures. â—†Relationships are the key motivators for learning for students from generational poverty.
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