Strategies for Teaching At-Risk Youth

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This course will address effective interventions for at-risk youth with a focus on children in poverty and children suffering social and emotional risks. Students explore general issues regarding laws, inclusion, and suggestions for how teachers can modify, accommodate, and adapt their classrooms and instruction for at-risk students. The course will consider not only whether these initiatives ameliorate deficits and troubles, but whether they nurture strengths and resiliency, and students will examine new models of resiliency. Attention will be given to the different sources and different expression of risk and resilience across race, class, and culture.