Teaching in academically diverse classrooms

1. Teaching in academically diverse classrooms

2. Instructional Strategies That Support Various Teacher Roles • Didactic/Direct Instruction • Demonstration, lecture, questions • Facilitative/Constructivist Methods • Cooperative learning, guided inquiry, simulation • Coaching • Feedback, conferencing, guided practice

3. Without Various Teacher Roles • Students are not being expected to participate in higher level thinking • All students learning abilities are not being met • Will they be able to understand or repeat everything you just said

4. Flexible Use of Classroom Elements • Student Groupings • Pre-assigned, readiness, interest, profiled • Time • Delay of due dates, compact or exempt of work, learning centers • Space • Quiet zone, arrangement charts • Resources • Textbooks, websites, video/audio clips

5. When Flexible Use of Classroom Elements is not used • Students are missing out on many different aspects of learning through different medias • Different students perform at different speeds • Some people need quiet, and others don’t mind noise

6. Addressing students needs to the Benefit of Others • Reading support • Buddy, highlighter, read alouds, excerpt on tape • Vocabulary Building • Lists, pinpointing, hunts, word walls • Attention in class • Pair and share, multiple presentations, activity shift • Addressing Strengths • Interest group, advanced, independent • Targeted Instruction • Small group, targeted homework

7. If your Not Addressing students needs to the Benefit of Others • You are losing out on an opportunity to reinforce, recreate, and create a new learning environment • Singling out students for being different