Description

A Framework for Understanding Poverty: 10 Actions to Educate Students

This training fulfills the prerequisite for the A Framework for Understanding Poverty Trainer Certification.

Are you ready to make a real impact in your profession? Discover the keys to understanding poverty and empowering those affected by it with our on-demand workshop!

A Framework for Understanding Poverty will help you understand how to negotiate and understand the world of survival.

Middle class understandings of poverty are often ill-suited for connecting with people in poverty. By adding this professional development to your skillset, you will gain in-depth information to help you understand how to better serve your students and their parents.

This web-based training gives you in-depth information to help you understand class differences and 10 actions you can implement the next day in the classroom to achieve impact. You will learn that the rules of survival and instability often interfere with time and opportunities to learn. This workshop will give you in-depth strategies and understandings to reduce your own frustration and better serve your students and parents. The workshop is based on the book A Framework for Understanding Poverty by Ruby K. Payne, Ph.D.

After participating in this workshop, you will:

  • Use concrete strategies that impact the achievement of students from poverty
  • Better understand how economic class affects behaviors and mindsets
  • Develop stronger relationships with your students to impact behavior and achievement
  • Identify key instructional strategies that meet the needs of under-resourced learners
  • Understand the hidden rules of economic classes and how they apply to your classroom
  • Reduce discipline referrals

10 Actions to Educate students include:

  • Resources
  • Relationships
  • Hidden rules
  • Mental models
  • Family structure
  • Updated case studies
  • Family dynamics
  • Your personal experience with class
  • The role of language registers
  • Discourse patterns and story structure
  • The importance of relationships

Duration: 3 hours 24 minutes