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CHILDREN IN POVERTY

" But [no one] can tell us what it means to a child to leave his often hellish home and go to a school -his hope for a transcendent future-that is literally falling apart.” ~Jonathan Kozol. CHILDREN IN POVERTY. Celia Valmoro July 2, 2009. CHILDREN IN POVERTY.

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CHILDREN IN POVERTY

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  1. "But [no one] can tell us what it means to a child to leave his often hellish home and go to a school -his hope for a transcendent future-that is literally falling apart.” ~Jonathan Kozol CHILDREN IN POVERTY Celia Valmoro July 2, 2009

  2. CHILDREN IN POVERTY 2006 Statistical Analysis US Census Bureau: Income, Expenditures, Poverty, & Wealth: Poverty • Out of 72,609 children from all races, 12,299 of them were living in poverty. • 7,522 were white alone • 3,690 were black alone • 3, 959 were Hispanic • 351 were Asian alone • 398 were Asian/Pacific Islanders • The one in five American children living in poor families are among the poorest in all developed nations.

  3. Children in Poverty What is poverty? Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines it as: “The state of one who lacks a usual or socially acceptable amount of money or material possessions; Debility due to malnutrition; lack of fertility.” Ruby Payne’s “working definition” : “The extent to which an individual does without resources” Financial Physical Emotional Relationships/Role Models Mental Spiritual Support Systems Knowledge of Hidden Rules

  4. A recent study by UNICEF, compares 21 OECD countries for the wellbeing of their children based on the goals set forth in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Children in poverty Relative Income Poverty by Country Interestingly, despite having by far the highest percentage of children in poverty, the US also had the third lowest percentage of children in homes without an employed parent, strongly suggesting that the problem of poverty in the US is not unemployment but severe income inequality.

  5. Children in Poverty Children in Poverty – 2007 NCHEMS Information Center for Higher Education Policymaking and Analysis

  6. Children in Poverty-2007 By specific state

  7. Children in Poverty A few characteristics/behaviors related to poverty and intervention: • Laugh when disciplined ~Understand the reason for the behavior. Tell students three or four other behaviors that would be more appropriate • Arguing with the teacher ~Don’t argue with the students. Model respect for students • Inappropriate or vulgar comments ~Have students generate phrases that could be used to say the same thing • Inability to follow directions ~Write steps on the board. Have them write at the top of the paper the steps needed to finish the task. • Physically fighting ~Stress that fighting is unacceptable in school. Examine other options that students could live with at school other than fighting.

  8. Children in Poverty • Hands always on someone else ~Give them as much to do with their hands as much as possible in a constructive way. • Harm other students verbally or physically ~Tell students aggression is not a choice. Have students generate other options that are appropriate choices at school. • Extremely disorganized ~Teach a simple, color-coded method of organization in the classroom. • Complete only part of the task ~ Write on the board all the parts of the task. Require each student to check off each part when finished.

  9. Identify the problem behavior

  10. Children in Poverty What’s a teacher to do? • Understand the reason for the behavior. • Help students to see other options for their behavior while in school • Provide lot s of kinesthetic activities • Teach them positive self-talk • Don’t argue with the students • Speak to them in the adult voice (Payne 2001) THE ADULT VOICE: non-judgmental, free of negative non-verbal, factual, often in question format, attitude of win-win.

  11. Children in Poverty Ruby Payne’s Hidden Class Rules

  12. poverty puts children at risk “tell me and I forget, show me and I remember, involve me and I understand.” “BEAUTIFUL SURROUNDINGS REFINE THE SOULS OF CHILDRENSQUALID SETTINGS COARSEN THEIR MENTALITIES” ~JONATHAN KOZOL

  13. Children in Poverty Citations • Overview of Child Wellbeing in Rich Countries • http://www.higheredinfo.org/dbrowser/index.php?submeasure=73&year=2007&level=nation&mode=data&state=0 • Payne, R.K. (1998) AFramework for Understanding Poverty. Highlands, TX: Aha process Inc. • Sadker, M. P. & Sadker, D. M. (2005). Teachers, Schools, and Society (8th ed.). New York: McGraw Hill. • Tileston, D.W. (2004) What every teacher should know about classroom management and discipline. Dallas, TX: Corwin Press. • United States Census Bureau Report www.census.gove/prod/2005pubs/p60-229.pdf\ • www.raisethehammer.org/blog/494/

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