...Axia College Material Appendix B Learning Needs of Diverse Students Teachers can be most effective when they vary their instructional methods because each classroom has a unique set of learners. Chapter 3 in Introduction to Teaching: Becoming a Professional discusses diversity among learners. Use Chapter 3 to help complete the following: 1. Fill in the table: a. Select two types of diverse learners as discussed in Ch. 3 of the text. b. Search for teaching practices on the Internet and in the text. c. List effective teaching practices for each type of learner. Your responses should not take up more space than allowed within the table. d. List the Web addresses for information retrieved from online sources, if any were used. 2. Answer the question in Part 2: a. Select one teaching practice/strategy from your list. How can this strategy be applied to both types of learners you identified? Can this single strategy be effective for all learners? Why or why not? Part 1: Best Teaching Practices for Diverse Learners |Type of Learner: |Best Teaching Practices: | |1. Language |Good organization and structure | | |Group activities | | ...
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...Associate Level Material Appendix B Learning Needs of Diverse Students Teachers can be most effective when they vary their instructional methods because each classroom has a unique set of learners. Chapter 3 in Introduction to Teaching: Becoming a Professional discusses diversity among learners. Use Chapter 3 to help complete the following: 1. Fill in the table: a. Select two types of diverse learners as discussed in Ch. 3 of the text. b. Search for teaching practices on the Internet and in the text. c. List effective teaching practices for each type of learner. Your responses should not take up more space than allowed within the table. d. List the Web addresses for information retrieved from online sources, if any were used. 2. Answer the question in Part 2: a. Select one teaching practice/strategy from your list. How can this strategy be applied to both types of learners you identified? Can this single strategy be effective for all learners? Why or why not? Part 1: Best Teaching Practices for Diverse Learners |Type of Learner: |Best Teaching Practices: | |1. English as a second language|a) Include parents in on the lesson plan, showing an interest in the student and family will | | |establish trust and allow students to feel more comfortable and able to learn. | | ...
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...Resources for Diverse-Needs Students. Education Week. Retrieved February 7, 2014, from http://www.edweek.org/tsb/articles/2011/10/13/01metlife.h05.html B. Synopsis of the Article: This article is talking about the lack of resources for the diverse needs of students in the classroom. The article mentions that teachers and parents believe that programs and resources to help diverse learners should be a high priority in education. The article also mentions the views about not only parents and teachers but it also shows the views of students and executives of companies. Article then goes on to talk about some of the initiatives or programs that teachers suggested that could help the learning of the diverse students. Some of these where opportunities for collaboration access to interactive, personalized learning programs, better tools for understanding students’ learning strengths and needs, and others as well. Lastly it mentions the grades the students give their teachers. The students were likely to give their teachers a B+ on the accommodations that they made for the diverse students in their classes. C. Critique of the Article: The article does a great job of explaining the message it is trying to convey, which is that there is a lack of resources for the diverse needs of students. It does a decent job of giving the thoughts of current teachers and how they feel on the matter of having lack of resources to properly education the diverse student s in their classes...
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...encompasses numerous characteristics including socio-economic background, ethnicity, special needs, gender, and giftedness (Cazden, 2001). Today, classrooms are getting more varied and diverse with students from diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds, and students with a disability. It appears that teachers must meet the needs of all students successfully and individually to effectively teach a classroom of diverse students. This paper will first identify three challenges involved with ensuring that teaching strategies are appropriate for culturally diverse children. These three challenges are acknowledging there is a difference and that all students are not the same, establishing school-wide cultural collaboration, and implementing culturally responsive teaching. Second it will discuss these cultural challenges in the classroom using the sociological perspective of conflict theory. Third and finally it will discuss these cultural challenges in the classroom using the relevant perspective of Piaget’s preoperational stage of development. To make certain that all students in a certain classroom justly feel like they belong to that class, teachers who teach in diverse and inclusive classrooms must employ major strategies. The first challenges involved with ensuring that teaching strategies are appropriate for culturally diverse children is acknowledging there is a difference and that all students are not the same. To be effective teachers, the teachers are expected to acknowledge...
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...Understanding Diversity to Create Successful Libraries A Review of Literature Veronica Espinoza SLIS 5000 Dr. O’Connor University of North Texas August 5, 2012 Abstract Within our country, the diverse users who visit libraries and seek information services from their librarians are many. Within the 21st century dynamic demographics are creating diverse communities which bring significant challenges in our library systems. In order to target the needs of diverse users, librarians and information professionals are taking on a multifaceted approach. This approach requires librarians to provide a variety of quality information services to diverse users while advocating diversity standards. The manner in which diverse users will be best served by librarians will fall upon the understanding and employment of four relevant criteria. The advocacy of successful programs and community support systems, diverse collection development, implementation of guidelines and legislation, and targeted diversity training for librarians and staff are all needed in order for librarians to adequately serve those diverse user population groups within their library communities. Introduction In the information field, librarians are taking important steps to stay relevant and effective to those users living in a 21st century environment who require information services. The makeup of users however, is a fluid reality...
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...who are serving 4200 students on a daily basis. The district is designed to promote students to achieve, develop leadership, impact the lives of students, empower their staff, and engage the community. Within the school district, the emotional intelligence that the employees need to consider is relationship management with building cultural diversity among...
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...NORTHCENTRAL UNIVERSITY ASSIGNMENT COVER SHEET Student: Mary Hawkins THIS FORM MUST BE COMPLETELY FILLED IN | | <Course ID Number> | <Instructor> | ECE5005-8 | MICHELE HERRERA | <Course Title> | <Assignment Number or Title> | CHILDREN AND FAMILIES IN A DIVERST SOCIETY | 3 | | | <Add student comments here> ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Faculty Use Only ------------------------------------------------- <Faculty comments here> ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- <Faculty Name> <Grade Earned> <Date Graded> “The most diverse group in the United States is our youngest children, and they will make the nation more diverse as they age. Almost 9 million young people age 5 to 17 speak language other than English in their home and 2.6 million of the have difficult speaking English” (Sarvavia-Sore, 2008). We as educators today have to learn to accept and embrace today’s new changing society and population as it continues to grow. Welcoming diversity inside of the classroom comes with changing a lot of old modern day rules and regulations. However in order for all students to succeed every education system has to design and creates ways to embrace diversity. As a Head Start teacher I found it...
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...New Jersey can be considered one of the most diverse state in the United States. This state has people residing from all around the world which also makes schools very diverse. Diversity and demographics in schools can be defined as students belonging to different races, religions, genders, languages, socio-economic status, ages, students with special education needs, and English language learners. Hudson county is located in the Jersey City and that’s where I lived after immigrating from India. The school I attended was William L. Dickinson High School. As I attended this school, I noticed this school was very diverse with students and teachers from different countries. My school had students belonging to various religions, cultures, races,...
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.... Supporting the Needs of All Learners Shiffon Hooper EDU697 Capstone: A Project Approach Dr. Margaret Broderick April 3, 2015 Support the Needs of All Learners With the advancement of technology in education it has provided more opportunity for learners of all backgrounds: students from diverse economic situations, students with special needs and students with different backgrounds. Gardner (1996) explains his eight theories of intelligences as the way we learn and adapt. We are all different and have different learning styles. Some are visual and others learn by doing. As humans we process information differently (Lever-Duffy & McDonald, 2011). Redesign EDU648 Lesson Technology helps us learn in a different way other than the traditional textbooks. Online lets us learn in a different way than the traditional brick and mortar schools. You will see my blog and see the changes made to the re-design paper with many new ways to learn through technology and how technology supports each learning styles. One size does not fit all anymore, we are a diverse world and have many different learning styles and our culture and environment reflects in our learning. Many children with learning disabilities may struggle with social situations and behavior problems. Challenges It was challenging to find the right lesson to re-design. Going back and reading each lesson took time and I was undecided what to choose. The original lesson was more about multiple...
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...As an educator, it is critical to always be aware of the students in your environment and to recognize each as a diverse learner. Often teachers lose focus that while we are teaching to the group, we need to be able to reach the individual. First we need to realize that a diverse learner simply means the characters that make each person unique. Each person comes into the classroom with their own sets of fears, accomplishments, and abilities and even though you teach to the group, you must embrace each student. For example, a student with attention issue may need to sit in the front to stay focused while the organized student could be in the back and still stay on task. Teachers start each year with new students and need to embrace each student’s...
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...far-reaching implications. The increasing diversity of the student populations served by public education systems is already having an adverse effect on overall student achievement and is forcing more and more educators to question their own beliefs and prejudices. The article focuses on the major issues in public education failing to reach our culturally and linguistically diverse student population, particularly those with and at risk for disabilities, including disproportionate academic underachievement, special education referrals, and disciplinary actions (Cartledge & Kourea, 2008). An eruption of social consciousness and moral seriousness has occurred about the “savage inequalities” faced by minorities and poor children in so many of America’s urban schools today (Kea & Utley, 1998). Even while it is clear that culturally and linguistically diverse students have the greatest need for quality instructional programs, many researchers argue that they are less likely to be taught with the most effective evidence-based instruction. Banks (2002) contends that the challenges facing educators in meeting the needs of multicultural students is of highest importance. I believe qualitative research method was used in this study. The author states Cultural awareness, sensitivity, and competency will help both preservice and in-service teachers to understand the sociopolitical problems facing multicultural students in the educational system including high drop-out...
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...will be comprised of students of color, and therefore, there is an increasing need for teachers to exhibit culturally sensitive behaviors in the classroom (Cross, 2003). In order to adapt in such an environment, practitioners must understand that cultural differences do not merely serve as a backdrop- they must be seriously considered in order to achieve success. In fact, key studies have found that individuals who have thrived in these classrooms exhibited a unique combination of personal characteristics (both innate and learned) and were aware of the challenging road ahead of them. Considering the fact that urban schools are made up of such diverse students, the question then arises if teachers of these classroom culturally follow suit. According to one article, 85.6% of urban schoolteachers are white (Cross, 2003). This sort of homogeneous instruction, if not approached properly, could certainly have negative effects towards the effectiveness of equitable education. For example, some students of color may not trust the teacher because they could have been isolated from diversity in their households prior to formal schooling. These urban students may feel an overall sense of detachment from their instructors and this could inevitably harm their enthusiasm and will to learn. Since it is known that most urban teachers are white and most commonly females, how are they supposed to relate to their culturally rich classroom and provide for all students an equitable education...
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...Diversity is an important part of education but in my community diversity rarely exists. The lack of avenues to open the community up to diversity is precisely why students aren't educated in diversity here. We are a small redneck town (which I wouldn't change for the world) that just isn't exposed to other cultures and ethnicities. The only way that students are exposed to diversity, in a cultural sense, is if they have the ability to travel or communicate with other cultures via the internet, Skype, Facebook, etc. Some kids are extremely diverse but their education in diversity is not a result of their schooling, it is a result of their travels, exposure and friendships to people of other countries and regions. In our school district we do have foreign exchange students who offer some insight into the lives of other cultures, genders, etc. We also have “distant learning” classes available at our school for students who want to take them. I feel that our local communities are very close-minded in terms of other cultures and the ways in which diversity can benefit us. Due to my own lack of cultural education I am going to write about the history of and importance of multicultural education in the school systems, citizen education programs and cultural enrichment activities.. Multicultural education has slowly evolved since its origins in the 1950’s civil rights movement to become part of the cultural mainstream. The desire to recognize the diversity of cultures rather...
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...Introduction Nationwide, schools are being faced with a rapid increase in the number of students of color, culturally and linguistically diverse students, students with learning disabilities, students from low-income families, and students from non-traditional and single parent families. As a result, determining how schools can adapt to meet the needs of these vast demographics, as well as how the varied demographics can play a role in the education of these students, has become more than just a topic of conversation and research for academic professionals, educators, researchers, and practitioners. Literature and research point to educational reform by improving school systems to foster multicultural educational environments. Specifically, school leadership and professional development are closely looked at as driving factors in which to achieve this educational reform. In their article “A Blueprint for Developing Culturally Proficient/Responsive School Administrators in Special Education,” Bakken and Smith (2011) focus on the need for school administrators to be culturally responsive/proficient in the special education arena particularly in order to better meet the needs of culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) students who have learning disabilities (LD). Bakken and Smith highlight research that explains why school administrators should prepare themselves and their staff to work with CLD students of various races, ethnicities, languages, beliefs, and expressions of cultural...
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...to research language acquisition principles for ELL students. The article helps educators see how they might apply the information to their teachings in their personal situations. The author of this essay will also react and give her opinion on the articles content. The Walqui article will also be used to describe how each factor affects second language acquisition and address how educators can support the acquisition of a second language. Many things affect students learning such as factors that have to do with the individual, social and societal issues. These factors are language, language distance, native language proficiency, knowledge of the second language, dialect and register, language status, language attitudes, the learner, diverse needs, diverse goals , peer groups , role models, home support the learning process, learning styles, motivation and classroom interaction and quality of instruction(Walqui,2003). As an educator this essay writer needs to know what second language acquisition theories are important to use, knowing the previous afore mentioned theories and factors will help this writer as a teacher be able to meet the needs of my ELL students. We as educators must be able to use scaffolding, sheltered instruction, stages of language proficiency, sociocultural competence, and standard American English(Echevarria, Vogt, & Short, 2004).. By using differentiated instruction it helps students learn most importantly. In reading the article...
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