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What teachers need to learn to be successful in schools with low-income students:
1. Knowledge of the community and students' cultures.
2. The skills to work with neighborhood children and their families.
3. An understanding of the research on effective teaching.
4. Classroom organization and management.
5. The skills to plan lessons that promote higher-level thinking.
6. Positive behavior-management techniques.
7. An understanding of students' prior knowledge, cultures and experiences with school lessons.
8. The principles of interactive instruction.
9. The skills to improve reading comprehension with culturally diverse literature.
10. The ability to analyze personal change and set goals.
SOURCE: Texas A&M University's Learning to Teach in Inner-City Schools program
