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Marjorie Hall Haley, PhD - GMU
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Valuing Diverse Students
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Teaching Foreign Languages Video
Library• This video library illustrates
effective instruction and assessment strategies for teaching foreign languages
• There are 27 videos that may be viewed at www.learner.org
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Think/Pair/Share1. What are your beliefs about
diverse learners?2. In what way(s) do the
changing demographics impact classroom diversity?
3. How do you define diverse?
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Identification• Students come from many
racial/cultural/ethnic/SES/linguistic backgrounds
• “Exceptional” indicates abilities ranging from gifted to physical, emotional, or learning disabilities
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Pedagogical Implications
• Students having different proficiency/linguistic levels
• Students having different native/heritage languages
• Students with different academic levels
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Think/Pair/ShareThink of nonverbal answering
practices (body language) that are commonly used in classrooms and brainstorm with a partner to create a list like the following: pointing, hand raising, standing on line, etc.
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Think/Pair/Share• What are some instructional
strategies and assessment practices that work effectively with the wide variety of diverse learners?
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Learner Preferences• What are some strategies to
learn about students’ multiple intelligences and/or learning styles?
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Now think about….1. How these may be integrated
into an early phase of a lesson.2. Other ways students could use
the list you generated to signal their comprehension.
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Other Important Pedagogical Implications
• Multiple Intelligences• Learning Styles• Learning Strategies
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Multiple Intelligences
• Verbal/Linguistic• Logical/Mathematical• Bodily/Kinesthetic• Naturalist• Visual/Spatial• Musical/Rhythmic• Interpersonal/Social• Intrapersonal/Introspective
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Multiple Intelligences
• Bodily/Kinesthetic: Role playing; dancing; TPR, TPRS, hands-on learning
• Interpersonal/Soc: Cooperative teams, paired activities
• Intrapersonal: Independent study
• Log/Math: word order activities, pattern games, classifying and categorizing, cause and effect
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Multiple Intelligences
• Musical/Rhythmic: write jingles, jazz chants, musical cloze
• Naturalist: describe changes in local environment
• Verbal/Linguistic: debates, story telling, word games
• Visual/Spatial: drawing a response, video exercises, graphic organizers
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Learning StylesA learning style is a general
approach a learner uses to learn a new language (Scarcella & Oxford, 1992).
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Learner Styles can be categorized into 3
areas:• Global • Analytic• Integrated
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Learning Strategies• Metacognitive: planning for
learning, monitoring one’s own comprehension and production, and evaluating how well one has achieved a learning objective.
• Cognitive: manipulating the material to be learned mentally or physically
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Learning Strategies (cont’d)
• Social/Affective: either interacting with another person in order to assist learning, as in cooperative learning, and asking questions for clarification, or using affective control to assist learning tasks (Chamot & O’Malley, 1994).
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Ask Yourself These Questions
1. What do you believe are the advantages of teaching culturally, linguistically, and cognitively diverse students?
2. What experiences do you have with people whose cultural backgrounds are different from yours?
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Ask Yourself These Questions
3. How do you accommodate the special needs of heritage language learners?
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In the video you will see….
• Ways to work with multilevel classes in the same room & at the same time (Shuffleton and Fu).
• How important grouping and cooperative learning are in working with diverse learners.
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In the video you will see….
• Strategies to create a positive learning environment for HL and EL learners in the same class.
• How teachers help students to value the diversity of their classmates.
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Theory & Research Informing Practice
• Teaching practices must be underscored by theory and research.
• Evidence on this can be collected using teacher action research.
• TFL Library showcases practicing teachers demonstrating “theory to practice”
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TFL Video Library is a wonderful resource!!
• It’s free!• It’s easily accessed• It reaches many languages across
all grade levels• It’s useful for new and “not so
new” teachers• Did I mention it’s “FREE!”
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To Access the Library
•Go to www.learner.org
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