Diversity
The competent teacher understands how students differ in their approaches to learning and creates instructional opportunities that are adapted to diverse learners.
Knowledge Indicators - The competent teacher:
3A. understands the areas of exceptionality in learning as defined in the Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA) and the State Board’s rules for Special Education (23 Ill. Adm. Code 226).
3B. understands the process of second language acquisition and strategies to support the learning of students whose first language is not English.
3C. understands how students’ learning is influenced by individual experiences, talents, and prior learning, as well as language, culture, family, and community values.
3D. understands and identifies differences in approaches to learning and performance, including different learning styles, multiple intelligences, and performance modes.
3E. understands cultural and community diversity through a well-grounded framework and understands how to learn about and incorporate students’ experiences, cultures, and community resources into instruction.
3F. understands personal cultural perspectives and biases and their effects on one’s teaching.
Performance Indicators - The competent teacher:
3G. facilitates a learning community in which individual differences are respected.
3H. Makes appropriate provisions (in terms of time and circumstances for work, tasks assigned, communication, and response modes) for individual students who have particular learning differences or needs.
3I. uses information about students’ families, cultures, and communities as a basis for connecting instruction to students’ experiences.
3J. uses cultural diversity and individual student experiences to enrich instruction.
3K. uses a wide range of instructional strategies and technologies to meet and enhance diverse student needs.
3L. identifies and designs instruction appropriate to students’ stages of development, learning styles, strengths and needs.
3M. identifies when and how to develop and implement strategies and interventions within the classroom and how to access appropriate services or resources to assist students with exceptional learning needs.
3N. demonstrates positive regard for individual students and their families regardless of culture, religion, gender, sexual orientation, and varying abilities.
3A. understands the areas of exceptionality in learning as defined in the Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA) and the State Board’s rules for Special Education (23 Ill. Adm. Code 226).
3B. understands the process of second language acquisition and strategies to support the learning of students whose first language is not English.
3C. understands how students’ learning is influenced by individual experiences, talents, and prior learning, as well as language, culture, family, and community values.
3D. understands and identifies differences in approaches to learning and performance, including different learning styles, multiple intelligences, and performance modes.
3E. understands cultural and community diversity through a well-grounded framework and understands how to learn about and incorporate students’ experiences, cultures, and community resources into instruction.
3F. understands personal cultural perspectives and biases and their effects on one’s teaching.
Performance Indicators - The competent teacher:
3G. facilitates a learning community in which individual differences are respected.
3H. Makes appropriate provisions (in terms of time and circumstances for work, tasks assigned, communication, and response modes) for individual students who have particular learning differences or needs.
3I. uses information about students’ families, cultures, and communities as a basis for connecting instruction to students’ experiences.
3J. uses cultural diversity and individual student experiences to enrich instruction.
3K. uses a wide range of instructional strategies and technologies to meet and enhance diverse student needs.
3L. identifies and designs instruction appropriate to students’ stages of development, learning styles, strengths and needs.
3M. identifies when and how to develop and implement strategies and interventions within the classroom and how to access appropriate services or resources to assist students with exceptional learning needs.
3N. demonstrates positive regard for individual students and their families regardless of culture, religion, gender, sexual orientation, and varying abilities.
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Reflection
Artifact: Language Arts and Mathematics Content Strategies
PTS 3. Diversity: The competent teacher understands how students differ in their approaches to learning and creates instructional opportunities that are adapted to diverse learners.
Write a paragraph explaining your knowledge and understanding of that standard—put the standard into your own words.
Within the field of education, the wide variety of differences in children requires that teachers have a wide variety of differences in their educational strategies. Not every child learns the same and not every technique is going to work across the board in one a classroom. This is not a problem however it only becomes one when a teacher is inflexible and expects the children to learn the way she/he is willing to teach. This should never be the case. It is our duty as educators to create learning opportunities and have the ability to be flexible and adapt our lessons to suit the needs of our students. We should always be finding new ways to adapt to our students, not trying to make our students adapt to us.
Explain how the artifact you chose demonstrates your understanding and application of the standard.
The artifact that I chose for this standard is a content strategies review that I did in my Special Education class. In this artifact it clearly shows that I know what different strategies are for the stated content areas, and also it shows that I know and understand how to differentiate my instruction based on the learning level of my students. I believe that this artifact demonstrates my understanding of indicator 3A which states that competent teachers “understand the areas of exceptionality in learning as defined in the Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA) and the State Board’s rules for Special Education (23 Ill. Adm. Code 226)” because of its particular focus on a student with special learning needs. In the indicator 3G is states that the competent teacher “facilitates a learning community in which individual differences are respected.” I believe that this artifact shows that I understand this because in it it clearly shows that I mean for all of my students to be working towards the same goals, but that some students just work at a different pace than others. Similarly, I believe that this goal also shows that I understand indicator 3H which states that the competent teacher “makes appropriate provisions (in terms of time and circumstances for work, tasks assigned, communication, and response modes) for individual students who have particular learning differences or needs.”
If the artifact has not been used in your practice, i.e., a class assignment, reflect upon how your teaching will be impacted by the assignment.
I believe that creating this artifact impacted the way that I think about my lesson plans, therefore impacting the way that I will teach in my classroom. By creating this document I have had to think about the many different kinds of students I will have to teach and I have had to think about the many different kinds of strategies that could be effective in helping them learn. My teaching will be impacted just by the fact that I have had to reflect on issues of learning diversity and laws such as Inclusion. My students are going to be at different levels when they come to me, in many different senses, but I feel more readily prepared to deal with their differences efficiently. The biggest impact this will have on me is that it will help me be a more effective teacher.
Conclude with a paragraph discussing how you are more prepared to Teach and Learn in a Diverse Society as a result of satisfactorily meeting the standard.
What I know now about differentiating my teaching is at the core of teaching in a diverse society. Diversity can mean many different things; it can mean different cultures, languages, social status, but what is the most important to keep in mind is learning diversity. These learning diversities includes how and at what level they learn best, and after completing this artifact, I believe that I have a higher level of understanding about this.
Artifact: Language Arts and Mathematics Content Strategies
PTS 3. Diversity: The competent teacher understands how students differ in their approaches to learning and creates instructional opportunities that are adapted to diverse learners.
Write a paragraph explaining your knowledge and understanding of that standard—put the standard into your own words.
Within the field of education, the wide variety of differences in children requires that teachers have a wide variety of differences in their educational strategies. Not every child learns the same and not every technique is going to work across the board in one a classroom. This is not a problem however it only becomes one when a teacher is inflexible and expects the children to learn the way she/he is willing to teach. This should never be the case. It is our duty as educators to create learning opportunities and have the ability to be flexible and adapt our lessons to suit the needs of our students. We should always be finding new ways to adapt to our students, not trying to make our students adapt to us.
Explain how the artifact you chose demonstrates your understanding and application of the standard.
The artifact that I chose for this standard is a content strategies review that I did in my Special Education class. In this artifact it clearly shows that I know what different strategies are for the stated content areas, and also it shows that I know and understand how to differentiate my instruction based on the learning level of my students. I believe that this artifact demonstrates my understanding of indicator 3A which states that competent teachers “understand the areas of exceptionality in learning as defined in the Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA) and the State Board’s rules for Special Education (23 Ill. Adm. Code 226)” because of its particular focus on a student with special learning needs. In the indicator 3G is states that the competent teacher “facilitates a learning community in which individual differences are respected.” I believe that this artifact shows that I understand this because in it it clearly shows that I mean for all of my students to be working towards the same goals, but that some students just work at a different pace than others. Similarly, I believe that this goal also shows that I understand indicator 3H which states that the competent teacher “makes appropriate provisions (in terms of time and circumstances for work, tasks assigned, communication, and response modes) for individual students who have particular learning differences or needs.”
If the artifact has not been used in your practice, i.e., a class assignment, reflect upon how your teaching will be impacted by the assignment.
I believe that creating this artifact impacted the way that I think about my lesson plans, therefore impacting the way that I will teach in my classroom. By creating this document I have had to think about the many different kinds of students I will have to teach and I have had to think about the many different kinds of strategies that could be effective in helping them learn. My teaching will be impacted just by the fact that I have had to reflect on issues of learning diversity and laws such as Inclusion. My students are going to be at different levels when they come to me, in many different senses, but I feel more readily prepared to deal with their differences efficiently. The biggest impact this will have on me is that it will help me be a more effective teacher.
Conclude with a paragraph discussing how you are more prepared to Teach and Learn in a Diverse Society as a result of satisfactorily meeting the standard.
What I know now about differentiating my teaching is at the core of teaching in a diverse society. Diversity can mean many different things; it can mean different cultures, languages, social status, but what is the most important to keep in mind is learning diversity. These learning diversities includes how and at what level they learn best, and after completing this artifact, I believe that I have a higher level of understanding about this.