Discussion 1

Project Analysis and Instructional Objectives

Shaquel Dials

Strayer University

Instructional Design and Development EDU 533

May 3, 2021

Project Analysis

The underserved students include those foreign students, students of color, those living with disability and the poor in the society lack resources and other important requirements that are essential for their academic success. There is the need for alternative educational settings that should be adopted to bring equality of learning in the classroom. The need analysis for the underserved students includes various aspects that include provision of enough resources that is both human and physical resources (Doucette, 2020). The government needs to consider equipping their schools with enough resources from infrastructure, learning resources and enough teachers. One of the main needs is to ensure that the school is welcoming and a serene environment where the students are able to learn.

There is much need to use a checklist to determine if the school welcomes all despite the differences and this includes the students of different genders, race, color and socio-economic background receiving equal education opportunities. The school climate should be welcoming to make students feel safe and part of the system (Thompson, 2017). In this kind of environment, teachers are expected to develop a learning pedagogy that promotes equity especially in a learning environment where there are English learners and speakers and all their interests have to be taken care of. Scholars who may have challenges with understanding concepts in the normal lecture classroom should be offered alternative learning options, such as the use of the visualization method (Doucette, 2020). There are the issues of stereotyping that students encounter and act as barriers to their academic success and this should be handled by the teachers through treating all students with equality and ensuring that we teach to the individual’s needs.

The government should equip all underserved schools in order to offer equality in education just in a similar manner to the privileged students creating a society of inclusivity. The teachers have the responsibility of interacting with the students and understanding their needs and challenges. This creates a way to channel the requirements in terms of resources and support from the government that would ensure that students get quality education (Tan, 2018). Successful presentation of the requirements of the underserved students results in teachers using the resources from the government to improve the quality of learning of the underserved students.

Objectives

There are various objectives that are targeted to achieve in this project and are categorized into three stages which are cognitive, behavioral and affective. According to the cognitive objective, the classroom should be welcoming and engaging and everyone is given an opportunity to share their views and suggestions about their learning challenges giving educators the hint about resources needed. The behavioral objective should create a learning environment for all with a combination of both the English speakers and learners in a single classroom to learn, interact, and communicate effectively (Tan, 2018). The daily interactions in a diverse classroom contribute to more engaged scholars. Affective objective focuses on educators needing to have empathy and understand students. This gives a sense of safety, and empowerment to students as well as an opportunity to trust the educators to be there to help and make them successful.

Plan

Implementation and use of the resources

Achieve academic success and cognitive objective

Meeting the behavioral and affective objectives

Educators submit the student needs to educational body (government)

Government support through funding to acquire resources needed

Government hire additional teachers and fight issues of inequality

Identification of underserved student needs

learning pedagogy challenge

Learning resources

References