Low SES Learners

This is a brief over view of a book by Eric Jensen “Keeping Poverty in Mind When Teaching.” He talks about theory and research that people have found about how students involved with a low-income family impact their learning experiences.  He goes into detail about social and emotional skills that students will not acquire also due to being raised in an unsafe or unstable home. Not only can it affect the performance of students but it can also affect the behavior of the students. An emotional keyboard is shown to help students differentiate between their emotions causing them stay calm and focused in the classroom. There are several activities that can be conducted in the classroom to ensure that the students are stable in their environment so they are secure to learn. I would like to implement some of these activities such as personality surveys or this emotional keyboard that Jensen provides in to my classroom.

A.     (n.d.). Chapter 2. How Poverty Affects Behavior and Academic Performance. Retrieved November 06, 2017, from http://www.ascd.org/publications/books/109074/chapters/How-Poverty-Affects-Behavior-and-Academic-Performance.aspx