Teaching Strategies for Diverse Learners
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Teaching Strategies for Diverse Learners
Brittany Santiago
Liberty University
Teaching Strategies for Diverse Learners
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Instructional Overview
The class is a grade 11 classroom with 18 diverse students pursuing English within a
small-town high school known for its ability to meet different student's needs. The chosen
Virginia English Standard is 11.4 b) – The student will read, comprehend, and analyze
relationships among American literature, history, and culture. Compare and contrast the
development of American literature in its historical context. The general integration area that can
be used in the teaching is viewing. Examples of this would include clarifying the information,
summarizing and analyzing as well as connecting the information. The standard and chosen
integration area 'analysis' will be addressed differently for learners in categories like
academically gifted, academically struggling, those learning the English language, and
traumatized students. The essay will emphasize how analyzing could help the students compare
and contrast the evolution of American literature from the perspective of history. The standard
and the integration areas will be addressed for each category of the students listed above. The
strategies for the diverse groups of students will be identified and applied in the standard and
integration area.
Gifted Learners
Research-based strategies that can teach gifted learners how to compare and contrast the
evolution of American literature from the perspective of history through analyzing include talk-
and-talk turns and group discussions and using memory and demonstration matrixes. It is
