...Hidden Gems in Your Classrooms! Have you ever listened to the Malvina Reynolds’ old song “Little Boxes” which is an ironic way to show of the people’s tendency to fit everyone into one size mold? In case, you did not encounter the song, here some part of it; And the people in the houses All went to the university, Where they were put in boxes And they came out all the same, And there's doctors and lawyers, And business executives, And they're all made out of ticky tacky And they all look just the same. Under the shade of this song, I imagine the student sitting in the rows where they exposed to one style of teaching method and expected to have the same outcome. Like the writer of this satire song pointed out this conception, the researchers claimed that the traditional approach “one size fit all” does not an effective method anymore for teaching in the culturally and linguistically diverse classrooms. The teachers are aware of limitation of that method and they endeavor differentiation in their teaching methods according to their children’s needs. Yet, still the gifted and talented students in early grades are not recognized by their teachers....
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...plants. Academic disciplines and categories were discussed and illustrated by Frank and the divisions of Humanities, Science, and Social Science were categorized. On January 13, 2016, the class met for the second time and was introduced to Rob, who was assigned to be the electronic tech taking care of lighting and the computer operations. The song of the day was Little Boxes; by Malvina Reynolds is a commentary of suburban homogeneity as all the houses are from the same cookie cutter architecture. The class also listened to The Working Class Go to Heaven, by Ennio Merricone. Rob is informed of all the class assignments, and the class will meet at the Walter Reuther Library on January 20, 2016, which has the collection of the United Farm Workers...
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