Purpose
This is how teachers implement cultural diversity into the classroom
What are authentic meaningful texts and lessons?
Large class sizes (40 +)and lack of administrative support
What is the largest challenge educators face in CCSD?
This is the typically the first challenge that new educators in CCSD encounter
What is the lack of culturally and socially appropriate training for all educators?
This allows research participants to rank responses using a variety of answers such as "more likely" or "highly unlikely"
What is a Likert survey?
This is the percentage of teachers surveyed using technology or other forms of media in their classrooms as a multi-modal technique
What is 100% of the surveyed teachers in the sample size?
The Cognitive-Affective Theory of Learning with Media, Control Value of Achievement Emotion and Least Restrictive Environment
What is the use of multimodal strategies in the classroom that help in reaching diverse learners and differentiating within the classroom?
Multimodal strategies that appeal to different learning inputs such as VAKT (Visual, auditory, kinesthetic and tactile)
What techniques do teachers in Clark County School District use to reach diverse learners?
A challenging situation for educators in the Clark County School District that has gotten worse each school year
What are varying levels of diversity as well as high numbers of 504 and IEP students?
This strategy allows educators to reach and challenge their diverse learners that are linguistically challenged
What are differing multimodal strategies that appeal to diverse learning styles?
This instrument allows participants to go into detail about strategies and techniques regarding their diverse learners
What is a questionnaire with open-ended questions?
This promotes student's technology usage at home as a means to promote more in-depth and meaningful lessons in the classroom
What is a flipped classroom?
Student-centered as opposed to teacher-led learning
What is the method preferred by diverse learners to reach their strengths?
The teacher does this to challenge diverse learners
What are relevant and meaningful assignments that promote rigor in a diverse classroom?
The reason many educators are unable to connect culturally with their students from diverse backgrounds
What is a lack of preservice training and exposure to different cultures, heritages, and languages?
This is an outdated method to teach and reach diverse learners
What is common core curriculum?
This protection of participants' names and other important identifying elements is crucial when collecting data.
What is the health and human rights policy for the protection of human research subjects?
More than 75% of educators surveyed in the sample size have this type of student in their classroom.
What are varying levels of diversity as represented by IEP, 504, or ELL students?
These are data strategies that teachers in CCSD utilize
What is identifying students' strengths and weaknesses to give them the opportunity for best practices?
Videos, YouTube and other technology to support and scaffold learning
What is a way for educators in CCSD to utilize multimodal strategies in the classroom to reach diverse learners?
The sensitivity to diverse backgrounds and cultural and linguistic differences lead to increased levels of this
What are the competence and confidence levels of educators in CCSD?
This strategy allows students to compare, classify and create cause and effect relationships within lessons to utilize higher-level thinking
What are identifying similarities and differences?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
This form of data is based on interviews, questionnaires, Likert scales, and so on.
What is qualitative data?
Working in conjunction with the student, their family, and administration, this provides the student equal opportunity to succeed and grow
What is an LRE as defined by the teachers in the survey?
These lessons enable simple changes to take place to increase higher-level thinking
What does rigor look like in a diverse classroom?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY- These strategies allow for emotional growth and support
What are Mental health checks daily, brain breaks, and journaling?
This problem stems from a Eurocentric based curriculum in place since the early 2000s which can be alleviated by relevant and socially sensitive training
What is diversifying the curriculum for diverse populations and making it accessible to all learners?
This strategy is used to integrate language and content through group engagement
What is turn and talk, readers theater, group work, or any other collaborative method which is a part of cooperative learning?
This is an answer to a questionnaire that allows for more than a yes or no answer and can be interpreted as part of data collection
What is an open-ended question?
The environment in the classroom for 100% of educators surveyed
What are achievement emotions that promote student creative thinking and reflect positive reinforcement and dealing with emotions?
These learning communities enable teachers to create rigorous, well-though-out lessons to appeal to divers learners
What are Professional Learning Communities (PLC)s?