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Shumate, Lorraine; Campbell-Whatley, Gloria D.; Lo, Ya-yu – Exceptionality, 2012
Culturally responsive instruction has the advantage of helping diverse students make academic gains. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of culturally infused mathematics lessons on the academic achievement of five middle school Latino students with specific learning disabilities in a resource classroom. We used an ABACACA…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Mathematics Instruction, Conventional Instruction, Culturally Relevant Education
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Wortham, Stanton; Contreras, Margaret – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2002
In a rural New England school with a small and frequently changing Latino population, a bilingual Latino paraprofessional created a homelike, supportive environment in the ESL resource room. The room was culturally relevant in its organization of multiple simultaneous activities, mirroring the spatiotemporal fluidity of Latino homes. Conflict…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Culture Conflict, English (Second Language), High Schools