Mindful Teaching Practices for Black Male Achievement: A Student-Focused Guide for Educators

Mindful Teaching Practices for Black Male Achievement is a resource for new teachers that provides research-based and classroom-based content, reflective exercises, practical resources, and extended activities to support positive educational outcomes with Black males.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 136 pages
Publication date: 10 September 2022
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

All Black males are born with dreams and aspirations, but their dreams are often deferred when they leave the classroom at the end of the day. Mindful Teaching Practices for Black Male Achievement was created to be a survival guide for new teachers, with short and to-the-point content and structured reflective exercises for professional development and learning communities. This resource contains both research-based and classroom-based content that includes practical resources such as expository real-world vignettes to ground each chapter and set the tone for reflective practice, reflective exercises for individual or group collaboration that facilitate positive internal shifts, prolepsis approaches that help the reader plan for future success utilizing personal goal setting, extended activities that build on and support positive educational outcomes with Black males in a way that affirms Black male identity, and sample letter templates to advocate for Black males, intervention plans, student efficacy surveys, and user-friendly best practices for closing achievement gaps for Black males by grade level.

Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781475867343