EDTS 521 - Teaching Poverty’s Children (3)

All children come to school with the hope of achieving the same outcomes as their peers, and you do everything you can to help them. But students who come from impoverished families must work against a host of short- and long-term consequences that make it challenging to achieve this goal. 

Breaking the barriers of poverty requires focused, researched-based strategies, and that is exactly what this course provides. You will learn to recognize the struggles unique to children from a poverty background and how to design learning activities that will counteract these struggles. Because these students particularly benefit from social-emotional learning and from community and parental involvement, you will learn to create strategies for engaging other adults in their education. Finally, you will examine positive policies and programs that will help ensure equitable education for all students.

Socioeconomic status should never limit what a student can achieve. After taking this course, you will understand the unique challenges that your students from low-income families face, and you’ll have a toolbox of strategies you can use to reach them.