Product Information:
Price: $26.95
Format: Softcover
Audience: Teachers, Teacher Educators
Pages: 184
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum
Copyright: 2001
ISBN: 978-0-8058-3519-9
Order #: LCD-01-01

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Bridging Cultures between Home and School: A Guide for Teachers

By: Elise Trumbull, Carrie Rothstein-Fisch, Patricia M. Greenfield, Blanca Quiroz

Teaching students from a range of cultural backgrounds is made easier when teachers understand the cultural norms of both the mainstream culture of schools and the cultures of their students. This guide provides a framework for learning about culture, along with many teacher-created strategies for making classrooms more successful for students, particularly those from immigrant Latino backgrounds.

Contents of the guide include chapters that describe the Bridging Cultures framework of individualism/collectivism for understanding cultures, why parent involvement is not always successful plus some ways to improve working with parents, the cross-cultural parent-teacher conference, learning what works cross-culturally through teacher research with ethnography as a research tool, and a reflection on the Bridging Cultures project (a collaboration among WestEd; UCLA; California State University, Northridge; and bilingual public school teachers in three districts).

Two adjunct books of supporting research, theories, background information, and teaching modules are also available. Please visit Bridging Cultures Teacher Education Module and Readings for Bridging Cultures for more information.