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Peer 1
Analyze how you can maintain high standards and demonstrate high expectations for all
ethnically, culturally, and linguistically diverse students in the classroom.
When it comes to being a teacher, you want to make sure that you are showing the best communication skills that you can within the cultural background to all your students that you are teaching in the classroom. When you are a teacher, you want to first get to know all your students and their background and making sure that your classroom is a safe environment when the students are entering your classroom each morning to learn as well. The students will have a great relationship when it comes to teaching them within their trust and support. I believe that when it comes to the first thing with the classroom setting is to have a great standard for what the students will be learning in there as well. Also, you want to maintain a higher standard and demonstrating when it comes to the expectation within the ethnically, linguistically, and culturally diverse classroom for the students and the rules that they need to manage as well. There is a lot of different standards that the students have when it comes to the experts in the learning from the classroom. Since there is a lot of different cultural backgrounds in the classrooms, I will be instructing the students on the diversity learning within their styles, needs, and skills that they will be learning in the classroom. The students will be challenged when it comes to the differentiated instruction learning in the different forms that they need to learn. When it comes to doing this, the students will be able to learn easier and I will be able to have all the students come together in the form of their goals that are expected from each other. When it comes to the rules in the classroom, everyone will be following them within the regulations and the part of the rules are created within the rules as well. I will make sure that I am consistent when it comes to the standards that I have made in the classroom as well.
Discuss how you would differentiate instruction for the inclusion of various learning styles.
When it comes to being a teacher, you want to make sure that the students understand that they are learning in different ways within their brain work as well. When it comes to the differentiating of the instruction within the inclusions, this means that I will be able to introduce the learning styles in different variations. Howard Gardner's multiple intelligence is the style that is what he has called this. Ever since this class is dealing with inclusion, then I have to make sure that the students that have a different style have a learning area within the multiple intelligence as well. When you are studying the students, this will make your job easier for the teaching styles better for you to teach them. When it comes to the students and their different styles of learning, this is where the compresses of intelligence begin. There are different things that the students have in their environment and they are visual-spatial that are very aware within their classroom. Then, there is bodily-Kinesthetic that the students will be able to learn easier when it comes to their movement, making different things, and touching as well. When it comes to the students, they will be learning throughout the interaction-intrapersonal, but within the students, they will be tended to be a little shy when it comes to being away from the other classmates as well. Then, lastly, you have the higher development of the auditory skills that the students will be learning within the skills as well. I will be making sure that the students are using the learning styles in different ways within the instruction for the inclusion styles as well.
Reflect on ways in which you would modify instruction for students in your area of
specialization.
When it comes to teaching the students in my area, we want to make sure that they are instructed within the specialization and making sure that the students are able to be modified by the instructions as well. As the special education students in the classroom, they need to make sure that I know the reason behind their disability and how I can help them develop their needs as much as possible too. The regular students would be able to introduce themselves within the 21st century when it comes to my area as I will be working with them called the 4cs. What are the 4cs you ask? They are communication, creativity, collaboration, and critical thinking. All four of these go a long way when it comes to the students in the classroom. The 21st century has helped the students out when it comes to keeping the students in school at all times within the framework too.
Reference
Framework for 21st Century Learning Links to an external site. . (n.d.). Retrieved from
http://www.p21.org/our-work/p21-framework
tecweb.org/styles/gardner.html
Peer 2
Analyze how you can maintain high standards and demonstrate high expectations for all ethnically, culturally, and linguistically diverse students in the classroom.
As educators with students from culturally diverse backgrounds from minority communities in our classroom, we must offer a multicultural environment. This will maintain a high standard in our classroom at all times. This might mean that all students need to feel comfortable in a classroom environment in which their culture is available around the class. There are many reasons children from culturally diverse backgrounds are discriminated against when they have disabilities. According to Taylor and Quintana (2003), "to teach successfully in culturally diverse classrooms, school teachers need to become more aware of their multicultural perceptions as their beliefs and behaviors affect the academic and social skill development of their students" (as cited in Koyama et al., 2012). By showing students of different backgrounds what other cultures are like, educators in the classroom not only provide a basis for quality learning but also teach students that everyone is the same no matter what culture they come from.
Reflect on ways in which you will choose culturally relevant curriculum and instructional materials that recognize, incorporate, and reflect students' heritage and the contributions of various ethnic groups.
To provide students with an effective teaching method, the teacher must know well their cultural background. Students from different cultures learn differently and may need another way of teaching. Since students from diverse backgrounds speak various languages, promoting multiculturalism builds a multicultural library in the classroom. The Framework for 21st Century Learning website enables different learning and teaching methods to help all students, including those with diverse cultural backgrounds in the area they need help. They combine different outcomes with assisting students in mastering a skill like key subjects, media, technology, curriculum instruction, and professional development. This will help the students to feel comfortable and better understood because their culture is represented around their classroom. For example, including posters and flags depicting some of the countries of origin, including ethnic foods, and inviting families to share their culture in the classroom can improve students' understanding of the diverse, multicultural environment in which they learn.
Discuss how you would differentiate instruction for the inclusion of various learning styles.
Differentiated instruction helps the teacher make changes in the classroom according to the different types of students. In addition, the teacher's goal is to make sure that the student wants to come to class every day to learn something new (Koschmeder, 2012). For example, students need language, communication, reading comprehension, classroom management, and self-care skills. The special education teacher can find accommodation by creating small groups for class topics and discussions. Students usually participate more when they are in smaller groups versus larger groups. In my experience, when students are not in group activities, they rarely raise their hands. Small group discussions help them feel free to comment and raise their hands to answer questions or give their perspective. Flexible grouping promotes communication. As educators providing differentiated instruction, we offer individualized attention to work toward the uniqueness of our student's learning styles and abilities. We can also create differentiated lessons by giving a personalized packet to help the student understand the material. The use of technology enhances the lesson and provides a student a different way to present the information being taught, such as recording or text to talk. Provide options to show the end material and use various forms of assessments to accommodate students who might not understand the lesson in traditional assessment forms.
References
Framework for 21st Century Learning. (n.d.). Retrieved August 30, 2021, from http://www.p21.org/our-work/p21-framework
Koschmeder, C. (2012). What is differentiated Instruction? Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAWKxpCv1Fw
Koyama, C., Plash, S., & Davis, K. (2012). Comparing cross-cultural, multicultural self-awareness among K-12 in-service school teachers . SRATE Journal, 21(1), 29-37. http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ959534.pdf
Analyze how you can maintain high standards and demonstrate high expectations for all ethnically, culturally, and linguistically diverse students in the classroom.
Being a twenty year educator and learning from older and younger teachers, I truly believe that teachers and myself must maintain high standards and expectations for all my students by first establishing classroom management and holding every student who walks into their class to the same expectations and never lowering those expectations for any particular individual. I truly believe that all students have the ability to learn, whether they are special education or general education students. It's about tapping into their young minds and taking the time out to see what they truly interest them. The specific behaviors that teachers must communicate loud and clear with no grey lines regarding their expectations for all students. I attack different areas students differently to ensure they also have high expectations for themselves academically and socially in my classroom and helping them meet their goals and objectives. You have to differentiate instruction in this day and age because of the diversity individuals who sit in your classroom. Through differentiated instruction, all students learn the same lesson but all students learn different.
Discuss how you would differentiate instruction for the inclusion of various learning styles.
All students are unique in their way, it's like a snowflake, it's never two students who are the same. Some children are visual learners, some are verbal learners and others are kinesthetic learners. Some different instruction should include art, music, videos and multiple visual aides. Reading, math , writing , spelling and listening skills for my students are very important for them to master in my classroom. Hands or activities and group projects is also an important part of my classroom in which all students must master. Music is another form in which they will listen to different types of genre while working, which actually helps a lot of students stay calm and relaxed while doing individual or group work. In making sure my classroom environment inclusion, all of my students will interact with one another regarding the learning process in what they like and dislike within the classroom.
Reflect on the ways in which you would modify instruction for students in your area of specialization.
Looking back on my classroom during the 2020-21 school year, there were individuals whom needed modify instructions in which they had special needs related to a specific emotional, physical or behavioral challenge. Accommodations and modifications are necessary to allow those students the equal opportunity as their regular education peers. Moving the child closer to the front of the classroom and near me is one solution. I had one student who used a recorder and then go back to find answer or main points what we were talking about as a whole group. i like to use big manipulatives around the room for visual sights. Modify instruction allows some students to learn at their present levels , rather than failing to comprehend what's being taught to them.
Reference(s)
Framework for 21st Century Learning (Links to an external site.) . (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.p21.org/our-work/p21-framework
Mertler, C. A. (2017). Action research: Improving schools and empowering educators (5th ed.) Sage Publications.
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