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

Cognitive Factors: perceiving, organizing, retaining information

Physiological Factors: hungry, tired, body rhythms, light, sound, temperature

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)

Emotional Intelligence

Knowing emotions: self awareness Managing emotions Motivating oneself Recognizing emotions in others Handling relationships

So, what’s your EQ?

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

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)

Teaching Them All

Use classroom strategies that build on student learning styles

Give equal instructional attention: biases toward females and males

Multicultural Education

The Contributions Approach The Additive Approach The Transformation Approach The Social Action Approach

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)

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

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)

Special Education

Zero reject Nondiscriminatory education Appropriate education Least-restrictive environment:

mainstreaming, inclusion Procedural due process PL 94-142 (1975), IDEA (1991)

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

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%