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Education 415 M U L T I C U L T U R A L EDUCATION. Dr. Pauline Leonard. Strategies for Teaching Diverse Learners. Strategies for Teaching Diverse Learners. What is a learning strategy? A technique or method used to assist in the learning and remembering of information.
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Education 415MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION Dr. Pauline Leonard
Strategies for Teaching Diverse Learners • What is a learning strategy? • A technique or method used to assist in the learning and remembering of information.
What are three examples of learning strategies? • Advance organizers • Graphic organizers • Mnemonic devices
All are designed to increase a student’s cognition through the development of metacognition “Thinking About Thinking”
Metacognition • Knowledge of one’s own thinking and learning processes • Includes • Constant monitoring of learning • Awareness of strategies to be used when faced with a learning task • Ability to select and use appropriate strategies to complete tasks
What is an advance organizer? • Conceptual preview of what is to come • Serve as “pegs’ on which students • hang key points • focus learning in most productive areas
What is a graphic organizer? • Visual and verbal illustrations of information • Depict relationships among main concepts • Can be used • as advance organizers • for remembering and retrieving information • for synthesizing information • for active learning
What is a mnemonic device? • A strategy to increase or enhance memory
Variety of Graphic Organizer Patterns • Graphic Organizers • Venn Diagram • Web • Spider Concept Map • Time Line • Hierarchical Map • Series Map • Cycle
Venn Diagram Similarities and Differences Disability Handicap
Concept Web Illusion of Balance Cosmetic Bias Superficial
SPIDER CONCEPT MAP Gender Roles Invisibility Stereotyping Assumptions Forms of Gender Bias Fragmentation Cosmetic Bias
Major Concept Racism Individual Racism Institutional Racism Subconcepts Details Bias Prejudice Bias Prejudice Personal/ Individual Systemic/ Organizational Hierarchical Map Used to stressrelationship between main concept, subconcepts and related details.
Time Line TIME LINE Used to illustrate sequence of events over time. 1850 1875 1900 1950 1975 2000 2025 1925 Normal School for African American Women Title IX of the 1972 Education Amendment Act Dr. Edward Clarke’s comment
Series Map Used to illustrate stages; sequences of events. EVENT 1 EVENT 2 EVENT 3 SUMMARY
Level 7: Specialized facilities – Nonpublic school Level 6: Special school Series Map (Another example) Level 5: Full-time special class Level 4: Regular classroom and resource teacher Level 3: Regular classroom with supplementary instruction and services Level 2: Regular classroom with consultation to teacher Level 1: Regular classroom Continuum of Educational Services for Students With Disabilities (Chapter 13)
Cycle Used to illustrate continuous series of events. Poverty Inequity Racism
What is a Venn Diagram? A graphic organizer used to depict __________ and _________. similarities differences
What is a web? A graphic organizer used to organize ______________ related to a broad concept. subconcepts
What is a time line? A graphic organizer used to illustrate a ________________ over time. sequence of events
What is a hierarchical map? A graphic organizer used to stress ________________ between concept, subconcepts, and related details. relationships
What is a series map? A graphic organizer used to illustrate stages or _______________________ . sequence of events
What is a cycle? A graphic organizer used to illustrate ________________ series of events. continuous
Macroculture Microculture Group Identity Think about the variety of group memberships (group identity) to which you belong. Use any appropriate graphic organizer to illustrate the group memberships to which you belong – identify with and share core values. Graphic Organizer: