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Diverse Learners

Diverse Learners. Chapter 2. Factors contributing to Learning Styles. Learning Styles…diverse ways of learning, comprehending, knowing Affective Factors: motivation, attitudes, values, emotions, frustration, curiosity, risks, locus of control

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Diverse Learners

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  1. Diverse Learners Chapter 2

  2. Factors contributing to Learning Styles • Learning Styles…diverse ways of learning, comprehending, knowing • Affective Factors: motivation, attitudes, values, emotions, frustration, curiosity, risks, locus of control • Cognitive Factors: perceiving, organizing, retaining information • Physiological Factors: hungry, tired, body rhythms, light, sound, temperature

  3. Intelligence(s) • The IQ score…developed early in the twentieth century, supposed to measure innate intelligence • Multiple intelligences… “the capacity to solve problems or to fashion products that are valued in one or more cultural settings” logical mathematical, linguistic, bodily-kinesthetic, musical, spatial, interpersonal, intrapersonal, naturalist, existential • What are multiple intelligences? (video) • A Multiple Intelligences Lesson in Action (video)

  4. Emotional Intelligence • Knowing emotions: self awareness • Managing emotions • Motivating oneself • Recognizing emotions in others • Handling relationships • So, what’s your EQ?

  5. Cultural Diversity • New Americans mainly from Latin America and Asia, also from the Caribbean, the Middle East, Africa, Eastern Europe • One in ten Americans is foreign born • 2.5 million Native Americans, 10 million Asians, 6 million multiracial • One out of three Americans is of color

  6. Teaching Them All • Lives are shaped by geography, ethnicity, exceptionality, social class, race, gender • Generalize, but don’t stereotype • Model skills and behaviors that reflect sensitivity • A Challenging Student (video)

  7. Teaching Them All • Use classroom strategies that build on student learning styles • Give equal instructional attention: biases toward females and males

  8. Multicultural Education • The Contributions Approach • The Additive Approach • The Transformation Approach • The Social Action Approach

  9. Bilingual Education • 1700-1800s: The Permissive Period • 1900-1960s: The Restrictive Period • 1950s-1980s: The Opportunist Period • 1980s-present: The Dismissive Period • Lau v. Nichols. Led to Congress passing the Equal Educational Opportunities Act (EEOA) • Transitional approach, maintenance approach, immersion approach • NCLB emphasizes transition into English • Assimilating the Alien (video)

  10. Exceptional Learners • Typically categorized: Students with: mental retardation, learning disabilities, emotional disturbance or behavior disorders, hearing and language impairments, visual impairments, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, other health and physical impairments, severe and multiple disabilities, gifted and talented students

  11. Giftedness • Specific academic ability • Leadership • Visual and performing arts • Specific academic ability, general intellectual ability • Creative thinking • Enrichment, accelerated programs, advanced placement • Including Students with Special Needs (video)

  12. Special Education • Zero reject • Nondiscriminatory education • Appropriate education • Least-restrictive environment: mainstreaming, inclusion • Procedural due process • PL 94-142 (1975), IDEA (1991)

  13. Individualized Education Program (IEP) • A statement of the student’s current performance, including long-term (annual) goals and short-term objectives • A description of the nature and duration of the instructional services designed to meet the prescribed goals • An overview of the methods of evaluation the will be used to monitor the child’s progress

  14. Distribution of students served under IDEA • Specific learning disabilities: 50% • Speech or language impairments: 19% • Mental retardation: 11% • Emotional disturbance: 8% • Multiple disabilities: 2% • Hearing impairments: 1% • Orthopedic impairments: 1% • Autism: 1% • Others: 6%

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