Helping Diverse Learners Succeed in Today’s Classroom
Partner Practice (Questioner)
Helping Diverse Learners Succeed in Today’s Classroom
Partner Practice (Answerer)
1. Name three ways in which effective teachers respond to cultural
diversity. (a. accept and value differences and communicate that to students
b. adapt interactions- be aware of different adult- child interactions c.
Teach classroom procedures d. make connections between the child‘s home
environment and learning)
1. Name three ways in which effective teachers respond to cultural
diversity.
2. Describe the main ways teachers can adapt their instruction to meet the
needs of students with various language backgrounds. (a. create a warm
positive environment b. give them opportunities to practice language with
other students through cooperative learning, tutoring, buddy systems c.
provide concrete examples for new ideas and vocabulary)
2. Describe the main ways teachers can adapt their instruction to
meet the needs of students with various language backgrounds.
3. How should teachers respond to gender differences? (a. be aware of
stereotypes b. call on both equally c. give the same quality of questions to
both d. give the same wait time e. give the same quality of feedback)
3. How should teachers respond to gender differences?
4. What are learning styles? How can teachers meet the needs of students
with different learning styles? (It is the preferred way of learning, or
processing information. Teachers can: a. use a variety of teaching
strategies b. remember that all students learn uniquely, and c. need to help
students become aware of how they learn best- metacognitively see their
learning strengths and weaknesses)
4. What are learning styles? How can teachers meet the needs of
students with different learning styles?
5. How has the government changed its stance on language diversity in the
schools? (It went from promoting bilingual education in 1968 to
emphasizing an English only approach today)
5. How has the government changed its stance on language diversity
in the schools?
6. How have schools changed the ways that they deal with exceptionalities?
(At one time, students with exceptionalities were separated from their
peers. Now we have a whole spectrum of services to all them to be taught
in the LRE, least restrictive environment)
6. How have schools changed the ways that they deal with
exceptionalities?
7. What is an IEP? ( An instructional plan developed by teachers, parents
and sometimes the student)
7. What is an IEP?