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Diverse Learners

Types of Diverse Learners

Cultural backgroundsEducational backgroundsFamily support systemsLanguages Learning styles

Learning Styles

Constructivism

A learning theory created by:

John DeweyJean PiagetLev Vygotsky

Children develop their understanding by building on what they already know…

They “construct” knowledge.

Multiple Intelligences

A learning theory created by Howard Gardner

People can be smart in many ways

Cognitive Development

Bloom’s Taxonomy

Creating

Evaluating

Analyzing

Applying

Understanding

Remembering

Multiple Learning Modalities

Image source: Texas A & M Career and Technical Special Populations

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Cultural Backgrounds

EthnicityGenderLanguage

RaceReligionSocioeconomic

status

Educational Backgrounds

Educational Needs

Abused and neglectedAttention Deficit Hyperactivity

Disorder (ADHD) Autism Spectrum DisordersGifted and talentedHomelessnessIndividuals with Disabilities Education

Act (IDEA)

Languages

Overview of TEKS for LOTE

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Tips for Working with LEP Students

Family Support Systems

Family Structures

Students whose parents are married make up about two thirds of all families

Seven out of ten mothers work

The divorce rate rose four times from 1978-2000

One in four children live with only mom, 5% with only dad and 4% with neither

Accommodating Diverse Learners

Get to know your students

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Identify areas of your curriculum that could be adapted to differentiated instruction

Examine your role as teacher in the differentiated classroom

Instructional Strategies Online

Strategies to Help Students with Various Learning Styles

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Appropriate Technology Applications

Technology

Providing more realistic and relevant learning with digital simulations and models and virtual activities

Exposing students to the world around them

Providing digital multimedia for creating presentations and projects

Presenting e-books

Making class web pages and web classrooms

Using video-making technology

Developing digital learning games

Providing digital data storage

Technology in Education

Instructional tool

Assistive technology

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Examples of Technology in the Classroom

iPadsDigital camerasSmart boardStudent

response systems

Benefits of Technology

Students are engaged

Learning takes place

Questions?

References and Resources

Images:

Microsoft Clip Art: Used with permission from Microsoft.

Books: Kauchak, D. & Eggen, P. (2014). Introduction to teaching:

Becoming a professional. (Fifth ed.). Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education, Inc.

Morrison, G. (2012). Early childhood education today. (Twelfth ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education, Inc.

Glencoe/McGraw-Hill. (2005). Differentiating instruction: Meeting students where they are. Retrieved from http://www.glencoe.com/sec/teachingtoday/subject/di_meeting.phtml

References and Resources

Websites: Inclusive Schools Network

This page includes a variety of instructional strategies that are effective for diverse learners such as activities, lesson plans, technologies, websites, projects and more.http://www.inclusiveschools.org/instruction-for-diverse-learners/

Michigan’s Assistive Technology ResourceDebbie Spring, a technology consultant, comprised a list of resources to help teachers incorporate technology into the classroom to meet the needs of diverse learners.http://mits.cenmi.org/Portals/4/Documents/Materials/Selected_Resources_Technology_to_Meet_the_Needs_of_Diverse_Learners.pdf

The Four Modalities of Learning Implementing and developing differentiated instruction is possibly the most important and

effective thing we can do as educators in order to reach more of our students. http://msdillard.wordpress.com/2013/01/05/the-four-modalities-of-learning/

Videos: Overview of TEKS for LOTE

In this video, the Texas Education Agency (TEA) gives teachers an example for how to implement TEKS into the classroom, specifically Languages Other Than English classrooms.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNXTAwX7FPQ&list=PLu_W_IYy7yO8uBQT0rWASnMv4k-PTPJf6

Strategies for Teaching Diverse LearnersAn elementary teacher describes her approach to teaching diverse learners.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZvrPSdxU9w

Teaching Diverse LearnersElementary teacher, Jessica Wallace, teaches a lesson about the seasons using technology to reach a variety of learners in her classroom.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt9uMSjFQ6A

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