...In every classroom there will be all types of diversities. A few examples of different types of diversity are: students come from all different racial, ethical, and religious backgrounds. As a teacher it is our job to treat every student equally no matter what kind of background they come from. In our classroom we will have students that are originally from a different country and may not speak English; but we have to make accommodations to make sure this child can learn and succeed. In our classrooms we will also have students with different learning disabilities. We have to these into consideration when we plan our lesson making sure we make modifications to help ensure the childs needs are being met. Through out the textbook Comprehensive Classroom Management Creating Communities of Support and Solving Problems, the authors Vern and Louise Jones gathered reasearch and wrote about diversity in the classroom in several chapters. Here is the important information that I found that will assist in having a well managed classroom...
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...Mary Mason May 5, 2013 Course: EDU 313 Professor Rick Holbeck | Poor | Fair | Good | Excellent | Outstanding | Crust | The crust is still in dough form. The crust still taste like uncooked flour. | The crust is thin and doesn’t have any flavor. The crust if hard and cannot bend. | The crust can bend and has a little flavor to it. The crust is flaky and not too hard for you to crew. | The crust is bendable and taste good. The crust is flaky and good for you to eat. | The crust is very good to eat. It is even around the whole pizza. The crust is perfect, not to thin and not too thick. | Sauce | The sauce has no flavor. Very bland and not good to eat. The sauce is cold. | The sauce is somewhat not too good to eat but can be eaten. The sauce is lukewarm. | The sauce has some flavor to it. It can be eaten but it is not at its best. The sauce is warm enough to eat. | The sauce has much flavor to it. It is spread evenly throughout the pizza. It is good and hot enough to eat. | The sauce has enough flavors to it. It is spread all over the pizza in a great amount. The sauce is hot and ready to eat. | Cheese | The cheese is not evenly spread. It is cold and hard. And not good to eat. It not melted on top. | The cheese is somewhat spread on top. The cheese is lukewarm and somewhat melted on top. | The cheese is spread throughout the top of the pizza. The cheese is melted and ready to eat. | The cheese is all over the pizza. It is melted evenly throughout the pizza...
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...Infusing Diversity into Mathematics Cultural diversity refers to human activity and symbolic structure that gives significance of the activity. Culture also refers to an individual, group or society. Technology, art, science, characteristic behaviors and habits can even be referred to as culture. It classifies, symbolizes and defines features of humans. Also other references can be the way people live such as beliefs, language, history and even the way they dress. Academic achievements for students require infusing disciplinary knowledge and the knowledge of student diversity into the curriculum. In mathematics, it sometimes can be viewed as culture free, which can mean that it is not necessarily a social and culture discipline. What should be understood by the teachers is that how the knowledge that is understood in mathematics can be related to norms and values of diverse languages and cultures. One way to infuse diversity in mathematics is by acknowledging what they do know instead of what they don’t know. So for an example, the students who have knowledge of the subway system can use the system as a better understanding of operations with integers. There is a needed focus on student’s strengths where curriculum and instruction is based on what the students know. In order to deal and maintain integration diverse cultures in the classroom there is needed conceptual framework. There are three well known approaches for teaching mathematics while infusing diverse cultures...
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...Final Examination-Diversity in Education Directions: You will be mapping six concepts/ideas/theories from your textbook/the course offerings for Diversity in Education. These ideas should be personally and practically important to your future as an educator while considering the impact that you/they will have on ALL students in your classroom. The overall goal of this exam is for you to demonstrate your understanding of the ideas/concepts/terms and how they are connected as well as how you will apply them in your classroom. The exam requires: a concept map of six ideas/concepts/theories a written explanation of your concept map which includes: six ideas/concepts/theories two to three (2-3) sentences that define each term (use chapter readings, discussions, and your own personal experiences) the connection of the term to one or more other terms (each term must be connected to at least one other one meaning you should have ‘connectors’ from each term to at least one other not only in terms of the diagram but in terms of your written application as well) please CAPITALIZE the term you are describing in your written explanation You will choose six ideas/concepts/theories from the following list: communication gender differences ethnic groups poverty teacher expectations second-language acquisition impact of the family demographics learning climate differentiated classroom learning styles classroom management Provided is an example...
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...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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...a Multicultural Classroom Instructor Dr. Ashley Berger July 25, 2012 Intercultural Communication Plan for a Multicultural Classroom This paper on Intercultural Communication Plan for a Multicultural Classroom is going to look on the importance of early education educators creating a multicultural classroom that will include all the different ethnic groups. This it will help to create a learning environment that will help all the students. In my experience working in a Head Start classroom I have learned that facilitating intercultural communication, and cross-cultural understanding is possible for students in a multicultural classroom, and that different cultures can be taught and incorporated in the classroom. Prince George's County Public Schools is number twenty-five in the nation for one of the largest school districts. They have 205 schools and about 125,000 students. They have approximately 18,000 employees that work for the school. The budget annually is $1.6 billion, and the school district caters to a socially inclusive student population. Prince George's County Public Schools are known for their innovative programs. The Prince George's County Public Schools believes that incorporating a multicultural education program in the schools creates and promotes an understanding of the diverse population of students that they have. The school that I work in Patuxent Elementary school is a community school that opened its doors in 1958. The student population shows...
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...encourage students from all backgrounds. Abraham Maslow’s “Hierarchy of Needs” illustrates the deep intrinsic need for a sense of 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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...it is important to take into account student diversity, student learning, curriculum, classroom management, and technology. In the following, I will explain my ideas in these areas and how I will implement them in the classroom. Student Diversity As a future educator, I look forward to teaching children with diverse backgrounds. No classroom is made up of students who are all identical. I will encounter gifted children and ones with special needs. There may be boys and girls who are culturally different and from dissimilar economical circumstances. Gifted students are challenging because they grow impatient about material that doesn’t interest them. Therefore, it is important to modify lessons to accommodate their needs. For example, I will add further criteria that appeal to each of their interests. Just the opposite will be done with special needs children. Many times I will need to modify lesson criteria in order to fit their needs. It is best to limit their written work and set achievable objectives for them. When they do reach these goals, I will praise them for what they’ve done. It is a definite possibility that I will teach children of different cultures throughout my career. With that being said, I understand the importance of being aware of various cultural differences. Ignoring these disparities will only cause problems in the classroom. Therefore, I will make it a point to value these differences and teach my students to appreciate one another. It is also...
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...Developmentally Appropriate Teaching Strategies In the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development (2008) it describes the management of a classroom has “to those activities of classroom teachers that create a positive classroom climate within which effective teaching and learning can occur” (Martin & Sugarman, p.9, 1993) (Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, 2008). In the class of culturally diverse children , the teacher has to receptive and appreciative of the diverse cultures which is represented by the students. The first challenge most teachers do not appreciate the fact that their culture is not necessary the right approach to situations or even lives. They will endeavor to conform the students or children to their own beliefs, which will inturn the students in a rebellious classroom, full on insuborination and indiscipline. The main perspective article explains by Southern Poverty Law Center in reference to a quote by one high school student which the student quoted by expressing his disappointment of the teacher at his school “think they know what’s wrong with us. But they don’t know. If people want to helpus, they have to see what we’ve been through, not from what their own experiences tell them” (Southern Povery Law Center, 2014). In this paper it says that many schools in the United States that the teaching staff are all middle aged, middle class, and monolingual and that they intend to represent or teach highly diversified...
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...Division and Diversity Division and Diversity Veronica Benson Cunningham Grand Canyon University: EDU 131N September 16, 2012 The Behavioral theory that I will discuss is behavioral psychologist B. F. Skinner (1901- 1990) who sought to understand why our voluntary actions are influenced by what happens to us immediately after we perform an act. In the 1960’s his ideas were used to develop behavior modifications techniques which are still used in present day. He is best noted for his research on operant conditioning and negative reinforcements. He developed the “cumulative recorder,” which showed rates of responding as a sloped line, as well as the skinner box ( tested a rat using a lever to get pleasure from positive reinforcement). The device (“cumulative recorder”) determined that behavior did not depend on the preceding stimulus as previously thought, but that behaviors were dependent upon what happens after the response, called the operant behavior. These principles can be witnessed in teaching, child rearing, and promoting the development of healthy social relationships. Skinner’s theory of reinforcing stimulus states that an act will be repeated if it receives a reward (reinforcement). We may repeatedly try to get this attention even more to receive this reinforcing stimulus. He felt that a person receives this stimulus only immediately after a particular act occurred. Although Skinner never used the term Behavioral...
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...Effective school leaders should ensure that vision, mission, and goals encompass awareness of school culture, instruction, organizational management, group process and consensus building, learning resources, school law and politics, and ethics. School leaders play a significant role in school culture. Organizations with a positive culture have cohesiveness and responsibility towards maintaining embedded attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors (Ali, Brownson, Kahlert, & Sobel, 2002). It is important for leaders to create cultures that have values, equity, and high expectations. Effective leaders accomplish positive cultures with the use of appropriate dialogue, actions, and symbolic gestures. The overall goal of positive school culture is effective student learning and achievement. Therefore, school leaders must establish a culture that meets the needs of diverse student populations and challenges of accountability-driven education systems. This also involves effective collaborative instruction that is designed to maintain a focus on improving student learning. School leaders are required to ensure that students are meeting performance standards in a collaborative process. The research in this paper offers several suggestions for school leaders to facilitate their responsibilities to student achievement. Organizational development and management are discussed to provide principles and concepts that promote a dynamic continuum of teaching and learning. An organization that is...
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...Presentation of Concept | Notes | Classroom Management | * All of the things that a teacher does to organize students, space, time and materials so that instruction in content and student learning can take place. (Lakes, 2002) * Classroom management, often called classroom discipline, has been a priority for teachers for nearly 40 years, or for as long as there have been opinion surveys of educational priorities. (Kratochwill, 2006) | | | Ending | * a point that marks the limit of something : the point at which something no longer continues to happen or exist * the last part of a story, movie, song, etc. * the part at the edge or limit of an areaWebster’s Dictionary | (Johnson et al; Ledlow 1998) | | Grading | * Grading leniency is a removable contaminant of student ratings. * Grading in education is the process of applying standardized measurements of varying levels of achievement in a course.(Greenwald, Anthony G.; Gillmore, Gerald M. 2009) | University of Mindanao Official Website | | Student Course Evaluation | There are almost as many terms used to describe student course evaluations as there are articles about them; among the most common are “student evaluations,” “course evaluations,” “student ratings of instruction,” and “student evaluations of teaching (SETs).” Each of these phrases has slightly different connotations, depending on whether they emphasize students, courses, ratings, or evaluation...
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...BUAD 309 Management and Organizational Behavior SYLLABUS FALL 2012 Mondays 6:00pm-8:45pm 102 GORE HALL Instructor: Meg Reno Email: mreno86@aol.com Phone: 302-598-9878 (c) 302-475-4196 (h) The following details how the course will be taught and what will be expected of each student. Required Texts Management and Organizational Behavior, Custom Edition for University of Delaware, Pearson, Course Pak McGraw ISBN-10 1121130593 CHANGE THIS Order online: www.mcgrawhillcreate.com/shop Course Description The course will focus on individuals and groups in organizations. We will discuss the concepts of diversity, corporate culture, personality, motivation, power, conflict, communication and group behavior, etc. Each unit will give you the theory and the skills to better understand yourself and others. In addition, you will grasp the impact of people strategies on organizational effectiveness and tools/techniques to support team effectiveness and help people reach maximum potential. Course Objectives The following course objectives will be achieved by the end of the term. Each student will: • Understand the environmental context in which organizational change takes place. • Comprehend the issues relevant to individual and group behavior in organizations. • Understand the people strategies involved in effective management practices. • Describe the organizational issues and possible solutions. Each student should take...
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...Personal Philosophy Cynthia Sigala Grand Canyon University: SPE – 529N Dr. Brenda Combs 6/4/2014 My philosophy of teaching has evolved from many years working as a para-professional in special education classrooms. I know my mission as a beginning teacher is threefold: In my classroom I want to light the spark for learning and promote the love of learning. I truly believe education is the most important tool a person can have in life. I can remember while growing up my mother telling me that the only thing I could fall back on was my education. I believe that in order for me to accomplish what I have set out to do. I will need to apply several different strategies that have been based on the principles of cognitive functioning, learning theory, diversity issues, instructional planning and assessment. As an educator, I believe it is my job to assure that every child receives the best education possible, regardless of special needs. It has always been my passion to help children discover their individual talents and to be able to help them reach their full potential. One way I can assure this happens is to make sure my students are placed in the least restrictive environment, gain necessary life skills, learn how to relate and communicate with others; as its imperative to their academic growth and success. It is essential to understand the cognitive functioning level(s) of the learners I am teaching in order for me to implement and apply strategies that are appropriate...
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...FS1The Learner’s Development and Environment FIELD STUDY | Episode 2 LEARNERS’ CHARACTERISTICS AND NEEDS | Name of FS Student Subject World History Year & Section 1st-Yr. & III-Merit & Mercy Resource Teacher Date Sept. 28, 2020 Cooperating School Your Target At the end of this activity, you will gain competencies in differentiating the characteristics and needs of learners from different developmental levels. Your Map To reach your target, do the following tasks: Step 1Observe 4 groups of learners from different level ( 1st Yr-4th Yr) | | Step 3Validate your observation by interviewing the learners. | Step 2Describe each of the learners based on your observations. | | Step 4Compare them in terms of their interests and needs. | Your Tools Use the activity form provided for you to document your observations. ------------------------------------------------- An Observation guide for the Learners Characteristic ------------------------------------------------- Read the following statements carefully. Then write your observation report on the provided space. Your teacher may also recommend another observation checklist if a more detailed observation is provided. ------------------------------------------------- Physical ------------------------------------------------- 1....
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