Diversity in the Classroom
Cultural identity
(What is) An overall sense of who one is. (Some factors may include: language, religion, age, racial identity, ethnic group, gender, status, etc.) ?
It is important to remember that every student develops at ______ rates
As a group of learners come together, they form a
(What is a) Classroom Culture? (or community)
Goal of Curriculum
(What is) The learning and growth of students?
True or false: There are plenty of roles beyond the traditional classroom available to teachers/those who hold a teaching degree:
(What is) True!
The analogy of the salad bowl captures the concept of
(What is) Cultural pluralism?
Students mature and learn to perform tasks that are a necessary part of daily living
(What is) Stages of development?
The atmosphere or quality of life in a classroom
(What is) Classroom climate?
Four types of curriculum that all students experience in their education
(What is) Explicit curriculum, hidden curriculum, null curriculum, extracurricular/cocurricular programs?
By integrating technology into the classroom, teachers can:
(What is) Provide students with learning experiences that would have been impossible years ago? (or: Enables students to experience events or study phenomena that they could not witness firsthand)
(What is) Gender-fair classroom?
Suggests that people are first motivated by basic needs for survival and safety. Once these have been met, they naturally seek to satisfy higher needs.
(What is) Maslow's Model of a Hierarchy of Needs?
Classroom climate will be influenced by
(What is) your style of communicating and treating students?
Roles of Assessments (2 main roles)
The four key elements of understanding a school's technological infrastructure
(What is) Connectivity, devices, accessibility, and resources?
While working with students of different backgrounds, teacher should:
(What is) Avoid forming stereotypes or overgeneralizations about those cultures?
These models help teachers better understand and serve their students
(What is) Piaget's theory of cognitive development, Erikson's stages of psychosocial development, and Kohlberg's stages of moral reasoning?
The three important dimensions of positive learning environments
(What is) the caring classroom, the physical classroom environment, and classroom organization (including procedures for grouping students for instruction and managing time)?
Two important qualities of classroom assessments (and their definitions)
(What is) (1) Validity (the extent to which assessments measure what they are supposed to) and (2) Reliability (the degree to which an assessment provides results that are consistent over time)?
With the use of web-based resources, teachers can provide opportunities to students such as:
(What is) Communication, collaboration, design, creation, and making?
To be an effective teacher when dealing with different cultural backgrounds is to:
(What is) Understand how to incorporate these differences into the lesson so the students (regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, or language) realize their maximum potential in school?
Because no two students progress through the same stages of development, teachers need to have perspectives that are:
(What is) Flexible, dynamic, and useful?
The goal of classroom management
(What is) To structure the classroom environment to maximize student attention and minimize disruptive behavior?
(Can be done via furniture arrangement, classroom expectations, etc.)
Assessment approaches used to assess student learning (and their definitions)
Three jobs (outside of the classroom) that a teacher can get include:
(What is (any of the following)) (1) Development Specialist (2) Paralegal (3) Museum Curator and Archivist (4) Librarian (5) Nanny (6) Education Writer (Mattie, 2021)?