Diverse Curriculum

Students have their own best way in effectively learning the lesson. With the diversity of students, the problem is each student has a preferred learning style. It becomes undeniably one of the reasons that make it difficult to achieve the best expected outcome out of teachers’ effort. However, teachers try to incorporate various teaching techniques to make every learning opportunity become productive, meaningful, and relevant for the learners.

I believe that the parents of children with disabilities play a pivotal roll in the educational and social development of their children. When a child is diagnosed with a disability it leaves the parent with a lot of responsibility and difficult decisions to make. When parents start planning to have children, most of them do not expect to have a child with special needs. It is the parents’ responsibility to provide everything that they are capable of to give the child what they need to succeed regardless of what those needs may be.

In beginning this class entitled Diverse Learners, I thought to myself that it would be a good opportunity to learn about teaching in an inclusive classroom to the myriad of students which will enter its walls. In essence that is what teaching is all about, creating an environment in which all students can learn to the best of their ability no matter what that ability is.

This is an important component because the staff should make sure the parents understand that they respect and value their opinion. At the end of the day, it is their children. It is important that staff make sure the environment is a “safe place” for parents to talk about the needs that their child may have.

In the video on Academic Diversity: Differentiated Instruction the teacher has the children work in different groups to learn about the Caribbean. She has already taught the students some background on the Caribbean and now, based off their interests, they are able to learn more about different aspects of the culture. Each group had a specific task to work on that they had to complete but they were allowed them to show their opinion and creativity. After she broke them into groups based on their interests she planned each group to have a chance to put their own twist on the assignment. The students in flag making got to choose what flag they wanted to make, the students in map making got to create a map, the students in the food group got to create food, and the group listening to music got to write about their favorite kind of music and why it was their favorite. The teacher made sure that the students worked as a group but also had an element that was theirs alone.

Do you remember what was school like for you? From elementary school to high school, I attended a total of three schools. But they are all private schools. I do not remember my first school very well, because I only studied in that school for 4 years, and in that time, I was too young. I had studied in the second school for 7 years and I had studied in the last school for 1 year. I want to show you about what was public school like in my mind, what is my favorite type of learning style, my very diverse school experience, and reflect about do my culture affect me.

The methodology comprised pre-service teachers attitude toward the inclusion of students with disabilities in the general education classroom, in a three-semester hour course. The details extracted were participants, setting description, instrumentation data collection procedures, study design, and the data analysis procedures used. The study design sought to answer the following research question “How does a one three-semester-hour service-based introductory course in diversity affect pre-service teachers’ attitude toward the inclusion of diverse learners in a general education classroom? The population used for the study were students enrolled in a teacher education program in a multi-faceted United Methodist Church related university located

From the first day a child is born, parents are there to nurture their child, to support them as they grow and develop. There is a lot to learn about raising a child under normal circumstances, but when a child has special needs parents must learn this whole new language of medical and special education terms (Overton, 2005). Parents enter this new world where navigating for the best interest of their child is riddled with challenges and obstacles that they need to somehow overcome. This is especially true when parents are dealing with

The curriculum involves all the developmental areas of a child’s growth, this moves around the attentions and needs of a child. The curriculum is also known as the outline around activities and lessons that are held in class that are premeditated and unpremeditated. As a teacher, you need to make sure that your curriculum is developmentally, individually and culturally appropriate before using it in your classroom. After obtaining understanding about each child’s background, and culture, you are able to incorporate all that information into your curriculum to make sure that your curriculum is culturally appropriate. You need to also find out about each child’s learning style, needs, interests, and their rate of growth so your curriculum can

The only way for a teacher to really know if students have met the lesson objective is by assessing constantly throughout the lesson. Through a diverse teaching strategies and differentiated instruction to meet all students needs this is possible. Mrs. Wiggins shows evidence of caring for her students by making connections and telling them to be proud of their answers. However, Mrs. Wiggins needs to improve the manner in which she assess students for understanding. Throughout the lesson students were being told to repeat the answers that were prompted by either the teacher or another student. There was little to no evidence of students being challenged and asked to assess their learning and understanding. It is suggested for Mrs. Wiggins to

A diverse student body is really important to me and is a prime factor in my decision of choosing where to apply for medical school. Our society today is a multicultural one with diverse patient populations. To account for this trend, it is paramount that we graduate physicians that are more culturally aware and culturally sensitive to these issues. Having a diverse student body also facilitates a good learning environment where we can learn from each other's unique experiences.

As I reflect on the learning from the weekend, my take away from our discussions and the reading, center around how institutions, in my case, K-12 institutions, cannot claim color-blindness or treating everyone the same through a race neutral lens. By doing so, we are setting our students back and not launching all students forward for a successful educational experience. In the article by Santos, (2010) it states valuing diversity in the college system is needed throughout all phases of college selection through specific actions and when students leave the system, such as graduation. (p.696) When in fact by creating policies linked to race neutrality it is more detrimental to the system and the students. It creates an unequal playing field

Parents can be a source of support or they can be problematic. Learning each parent as well as the child is the biggest challenge of teaching.

Do Now: Ms. Scoggin’s message is that the way you represent yourself as a person and the ethos you transpire in your writing determines your persona and credibility and it is the basis by which you are judged.

Taking care of children with disabilities requires a compassionate spirit of valuing them as human being worth of respect regardless of their disabilities.