Multicultural Practices of Effective Teachers of Urban Students

This study identifies the practices, behaviors, and beliefs of a group of highly effective teachers of African American and Latino students in urban schools. This study describs: • What strategies highly effective teachers are using /are not using, that the multicultural literature recommends; • How these findings related to the overall effective strategies that these teachers use; • How the results relate to the multicultural education literature; Extensive observations and interviews revealed: (a) what multicultural strategies effective teachers use in their classrooms, and (b) what they say they believe about multicultural strategies and their relationship to their students'' academic success. The study also extend the existing body of research on high achieving educational settings and effective teaching research by describing the practices of highly effective teachers with ethnically diverse urban students in low performing public schools.