...Introduction The classroom has become a more generationally diverse environment in recent years. Sanchez and Kaplan (2014) explained that higher education institutions have increasingly shifted towards lifelong learning to accommodate the age diversity among their students. This means that teachers and instructors need to be aware of generational aspects in within the learning environment to accommodate all learners. It also brings up the question as to whether there are actual differences in learning between the different generations. In this paper theoretical and research evidence in regards to intergenerational learning is noted. The importance for instructors to be aware of whether there are actual generational differences among...
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...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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.... 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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...Bilingual Education: Voter Driven Initiatives XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Grand Canyon University: ESL 523N February 27, 2013 Bilingual education is a very important topic in education. Classrooms are filled with diverse populations, including those that are learning English as a second language. Learning a new language and having to adapt to a new culture can prove to be detrimental for a student’s academic progress. English language learners struggle in the classroom and are in need of teachers that will work relentlessly in helping them be academically successful. To regulate bilingual/ESL education, there have been various state and federal decisions made. The Elementary and Secondary Education Act was passed on the heels of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The purpose of ESEA was focused mainly on eradicating poverty, providing equal education services to all students, and implementing high standards for students and teachers. The ESEA also provided funds for state established educational programs and low income students ("Elementary and secondary,"). Although the ESEA benefited many deserving students in bad economic areas, it did not specifically benefit English language learners. Making matters worse, ESEA was reauthorized as The No Child Left Behind in 2002. NCLB required states to align their standards/requirements with the federal NCLB standards/requirements. Although it looked good on paper, requiring schools to meet what is known as Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) forced...
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...Thai 1 “The Urban Learner” Who is the urban learner? The urban learner is described as a student being an active participant in an urban educational and learning environment. The urban learner includes such racial minorities as Native Americans, African Americans, Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, and a substantial number of poor whites. For proper education, urban learners should ideally have both a good home environment and a community that is safe and active. The home environment and community has a more profound impact on the urban learner than some would imagine, with some of the factors being violence, poverty, health, and how active a parents’ role is in pushing their children towards educational success in school. First, let's start off with the home environment and how big of a role it plays in the urban learner's success in school. The home environment provides the foundation or base for students learning in school. It is a factor of a student’s life that can affect their grades. Many things are considered here, such as what they do when they get home, what they eat, how much sleep they get, if they exercise to stay healthy, and more. Most of this can be controlled by the parents, although it is preferable that the parent give some liberties to the child so that they are not completely controlled. A child's health usually stems from their home environment. Their health is usually based on if they're well-nourished with healthy meals, if they're staying...
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...Learning cultures are as vastly diverse in our educational institutes as the diversity of cultures in general society. There are many differing studies available to assist the learner and the educator maximize the learning of todays’ students. This paper will focus on the VARK Questionaire: a guide to learning styles. VARK is an acronym for visual, aural, read/write, kinesthetic learning preferences. This is a sixteen question survey that indicates a learners preferences for the ways in which learning is taken in and expressed. It is important to differentiate that VARK provides information about the learners Preferences not necessarily their Strengths. A learner may be a gifted artist but does not choose to learn using visual strategies. VARK data is geared for the learners learning activity not leisure activities, the learner may be an avid reader for pleasure but that is not how the learner likes to take in and express information in the learning environment. The emphasis is on how the learner gathers, processes, interprets, organizes, and thinks about new information. When answering questions on the VARK questionnaire it is important to consider only how the individual not any others responds to learning. Nobody functions solely on any one given mode, for example when a person is describing something verbally they are most likely using gestures and voice flexion’s that may be visually interesting. Another facet of the VARK to be remembered is that the word visual...
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...students who encounter difficulty in learning to read, if these students receive extra support in the form of an early intervention program (Goldberg, 1994). Interventions programs provide multiple methods of instructions that are particular to that student. Being able to determine if differentiated instruction is more effective than the use one method of instruction would be sufficient to change the way America teaches their children to learn. Every learner is different; however, instructors still use one method to instruct. Doing this does not facilitate learning for every learner. Using differentiated instructions would allow for instructors to enhance the learning experience for learners in attendance. The Multiple Instructional Method (MIM) allows the instructor to use various approaches to learning in order to affect every learner. Curriculum would be designed to enhance the learning experience for all learners by being flexible, strategic, and affective. Instructors are aware of how their students are learning; research will never be able to tell them exactly what to do for a given learner but rather what evidence shows will work most often with most learners and what will help specific groups of learners. The participant’s welfare is important; the approach to this research project will be to make sure that the experience is positive. The obvious legal responsibility to the participants is to maintain confidentiality and obtain permission from...
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...England Introduction Teachers and trainers are reflective and enquiring practitioners who think critically about their own educational assumptions, values and practice in the context of a changing contemporary and educational world. They draw on relevant research as part of evidence-based practice. They act with honesty and integrity to maintain high standards of ethics and professional behaviour in support of learners and their expectations. Professional skills Professional values and attributes Professional knowledge and understanding Teachers and trainers are ‘dual professionals’; they are both subject and/or vocational specialists and experts in teaching and learning. They are committed to maintaining and developing their expertise in both aspects of their role to ensure the best outcomes for their learners. These expectations of teachers and trainers underpin the 2014 professional standards, with their overall purpose being to support teachers and trainers to maintain and improve standards of teaching and learning, and outcomes for learners. The professional standards are set across three sections each of equal importance: each links to and supports the other sections. The 2014 professional standards: • set out clear expectations of effective practice in Education and Training; • enable teachers and trainers to identify areas for their own professional development; • support initial teacher education; • provide a national reference point...
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...someone. Social conflicts can be generated by racism, prejudice, and stereotyping; therefore efforts need to be made to reduce racist tendencies and prejudice in order to correct stereotyping. Ways of achieving this include more awareness education, and contact between the stereotyped and those who form stereotypes, as well as the accurate portrayal of individuals and groups in literature. ii) Stereotypes Stereotyping takes place when we conjure mental categories where one deposits people, items or events into conceptually specified groups. Stereotypes are formed as a result of the overload of experiences we have, and the continuous deluge of information preset in implication that we are subjected to e.g. media. In order to keep us from being cognitively overwhelmed, our brain has developed the mechanism of stereotyping – creation of categories in which we conveniently deposit large amounts of information in order to organize and simplify the world. Stereotyping sometimes amounts to a rigid overgeneralised...
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...Even though there is wide agreement that learning analytics can be highly valuable to the various MOOC stakeholders, application of those techniques onto MOOC datasets is however limited at present. Current implementations of the learning analytics in MOOCs are usually addressing facts like low completion rates, exploring learning patterns as well as supporting intervention. (Clow, 2013b; Mirriahi & Dawson, 2013). A focus on the learner-perspectives in MOOCs has the capacity to expand learning analytics beyond such dogmatic assessments such as that of completion rate, personalization, assessment, recommendation, feedback, awareness, and, of course, introspection. cMOOCs, as compared with xMOOCs pose certain challenges for the practice of these MOOC-Adaptation Analytics. This is largely because in cMOOCs, the learner participation is evolving, disjointed, scattered, and even varied (Clow, 2013b; McAulay et al., 2010) and a large number of these learning activities take place outside the platform spanning all the diverse learning environments. Working with cMOOCs would thus need a paradigm-shift towards analytics on more demanding data sets...
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...way students process information best is referred to as their “preferred learning method.” (The VARK Questionnaire. [n.d.]). Awareness of learning styles enhances the teacher and the student learning experience. Educators as well as students who realize the differences in learning styles can implement best practice strategies for successfu learning opportunities. Kinesthetic Learning Style Kinesthetic learning style means that the learner learns best if they are actively doing something while learning. Lecture and written instruction are replaced with active participation in learning and hands on approach. Kinesthetic learners need the material to sound practical and they need to be able to apply the material in a personal way. The learner needs to be able to do things to understand them. (The VARK Questionnaire [n.d.]). Preferred learning Strategies in relation to identified kinesthetic strategies • Demonstration of material: Demonstrating the principles being taught through video or in person presentation allows learner to see the physical act of the concept. This is...
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...not dictate a person’s intelligence or their abilities to learn; instead it explains why some learner’s process information acquired differently than others. How a student retains knowledge depends on how that learner comprehends and process the information. VARK learning analysis quiz and learning style is a study to determine one’s learning style. VARK is an acronym for visual learning style, auditory learning style, reading/writing learning style and kinesthetic learning style. This paper discuses all the different learning styles but focuses on the Kinesthetic learning style and strategies that may offer an easier way to retain and enjoy any learning experience After taking the VARK learning analysis quiz it was determined that this authors learning style is more kinesthetic with a score of 14. “Kinesthetic learning is a learning style in which learning takes place by the students carrying out physical activities, rather than listening to a lecture or watching demonstrations,”("Kinesthetic learning," 2010, para. 1). Kinesthetic intelligence makes up about five percent of the population and was originally coupled with having tactile abilities or using the body to do something. According to the theory of learning styles, termed as “discovery learners”, kinesthetic learners struggle with reading or listening and have realization through doing rather than thinking before initiating an action.("Kinesthetic learning," 2010, para. 4) Using research of kinesthetic learning styles in...
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...belongingness. When students are unable to connect with the curriculum, there becomes a disconnection between the applicability of content to the learners’ lives and learning retention rates. In order to create more meaningful experiences, educators must focus on students needs and interests in a student-centered manner. A researcher, Geneva Gay, addresses today’s diverse student population in her research. Her work encourages culturally responsive teaching, which is ultimately validating, comprehensive, multidimensional,...
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...You have been hired to teach a credit-based community college course. The course has 35 learners ranging in age from 17 to 70. You must develop the course to meet the needs of your learners. Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper in which you analyze fundamental principles of adult education including biological, psychological, sociocultural, and cognitive factors that will have an effect on the diverse demographics of your adult learners. 1. Analyze fundamental principles of adult education including biological, physiological, socio-cultural, and cognitive factors that will have an impact on the diverse demographics of your adult learners. Malcolm Knowles pioneered the field of adult learning. He identified the following characteristics of adult learners: · Adults are autonomous and self-directed. · Adults have accumulated a foundation of life experiences and knowledge that may include work-related activities, family responsibilities, and previous education. · Adults are goal-oriented. · Adults are relevancy-oriented. · Adults are practical, focusing on the aspects of a lesson most useful to them in their work. · As do all learners, adults need to be shown respect. (see attached resources, which expands on each of these characteristics). According to Kuhne (2000), the following ten characteristics of adult learners will impact how you teach adult learners. Kuhne incorporates the above characterizes stated by Knowles, including biological, physiological, socio-cultural...
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...dispositions truly are for the success of a teacher and what I need to work on to better myself to become a true star educator. The first disposition of teaching is the commitment to diversity. Commitment to diversity is a strong point of mine because I have first handedly seen the benefits of diversity in the schools. In one hand I went to a middle school that was about 30% African American, 25% Hispanic, and 45% White. On the other hand I went to a high school that was almost 95% White, 4% African American, and 1% Hispanic. I feel like the students I went to school with in the diverse community had a more open mind about society in a whole which clearly made for better learning. I also observed that the teachers at the diverse school seemed to have more motivation to drive the students to succeed. The more diverse schools also seem to have a more positive attitude towards diverse cultures and learners. The more open a student is to other cultures, the more open he or she is with society. Diversity, a key to live, is extremely important in the school system which traces back to the teachers. Another disposition is the commitment to...
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