“Touching The Spirit” Teaching Workshops
Effective teaching must be a nonnegotiable standard. To provide the opportunity to attain the skills needed to achieve excellence in education, we provide Touching The Spirit as an educational model that helps teachers use the intrinsic African cultural idea of the “spirit” to design educational content and processes that foster excellence in African American students.
Successful teachers learn about their students’ history, culture, language, background knowledge, and experiences. They use this information to develop learning activities that empower and engage their students’ interest and involvement. The Touching the Spirit framework helps guide teachers in these processes.
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