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STANDARD 3 - Diversity
The competent teacher understands how students differ in their approaches to learning and creates instructional opportunities that are adapted to diverse learners.
Artifact: Reflective Course Essay
Reflection:
The artifact for this standard is a reflective course essay discussing various scenarios that are centered upon diversity issues, misconceptions, and theories. I wrote this essay as a part of my CI 415 Language Varieties, Culture, and Learning course, which focused upon the diversity of language, culture, and learning that I will surely come into contact with and be required to effectively work with as a classroom teacher.
This artifact demonstrates my understanding of how students differ in their approaches to learning, personal backgrounds, and groups (either cultural, racial, or socioeconomic) that they identify with. I thoroughly explain various language differences and categories, such as African American Vernacular English (AAVE) and English Learners (EL), which many students today can identify with. As I discuss English Learners in the classroom, I evidence my understanding of the process of second language acquisition by explaining different researched strategies that have been proven to support the learning of students whose first language is not English. I also depict my understanding of how students’ learning is influenced by individual experiences, prior learning, language, culture, family, and community values in my in-depth discussion of AAVE and effective instructional strategies to use with these diverse learners. In the beginning of this essay I make explicit how teachers need to facilitate a learning community in which individual differences are respected so that they can best instruct their diverse learners. I further explain how in order to effectively respect and promote diversity in the classroom a teacher needs to understand, appreciate, and validate the differences apparent in their students. This includes demonstrating a positive regard for individual students and their families regardless of culture, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or varying abilities as well as using cultural diversity and individual student experiences to enrich academic instruction. Further, I identify and explain different instructional strategies (such as ones to best teach AAVE learners) that are appropriate and relevant to students’ learning styles, personal backgrounds, cultures, strengths, and needs.
This course essay has helped me grow as a professional educator in the arena of diversity within the classroom. Through the creation of this artifact I better understand certain differences among students, such as language dialects and how to best address, respect, promote, and appreciate them in the classroom as a teacher. Although I already had experience working with diverse learners prior to composing this artifact, I did not fully understand the researched methods and strategies that can best aid these diverse students so that they can reach their full potential in school. I am glad that I was able to write this course essay and am eager to implement some of the instructional strategies I discussed in my future classroom so as to best meet the needs of my diverse learners.
The competent teacher understands how students differ in their approaches to learning and creates instructional opportunities that are adapted to diverse learners.
Artifact: Reflective Course Essay
Reflection:
The artifact for this standard is a reflective course essay discussing various scenarios that are centered upon diversity issues, misconceptions, and theories. I wrote this essay as a part of my CI 415 Language Varieties, Culture, and Learning course, which focused upon the diversity of language, culture, and learning that I will surely come into contact with and be required to effectively work with as a classroom teacher.
This artifact demonstrates my understanding of how students differ in their approaches to learning, personal backgrounds, and groups (either cultural, racial, or socioeconomic) that they identify with. I thoroughly explain various language differences and categories, such as African American Vernacular English (AAVE) and English Learners (EL), which many students today can identify with. As I discuss English Learners in the classroom, I evidence my understanding of the process of second language acquisition by explaining different researched strategies that have been proven to support the learning of students whose first language is not English. I also depict my understanding of how students’ learning is influenced by individual experiences, prior learning, language, culture, family, and community values in my in-depth discussion of AAVE and effective instructional strategies to use with these diverse learners. In the beginning of this essay I make explicit how teachers need to facilitate a learning community in which individual differences are respected so that they can best instruct their diverse learners. I further explain how in order to effectively respect and promote diversity in the classroom a teacher needs to understand, appreciate, and validate the differences apparent in their students. This includes demonstrating a positive regard for individual students and their families regardless of culture, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or varying abilities as well as using cultural diversity and individual student experiences to enrich academic instruction. Further, I identify and explain different instructional strategies (such as ones to best teach AAVE learners) that are appropriate and relevant to students’ learning styles, personal backgrounds, cultures, strengths, and needs.
This course essay has helped me grow as a professional educator in the arena of diversity within the classroom. Through the creation of this artifact I better understand certain differences among students, such as language dialects and how to best address, respect, promote, and appreciate them in the classroom as a teacher. Although I already had experience working with diverse learners prior to composing this artifact, I did not fully understand the researched methods and strategies that can best aid these diverse students so that they can reach their full potential in school. I am glad that I was able to write this course essay and am eager to implement some of the instructional strategies I discussed in my future classroom so as to best meet the needs of my diverse learners.