Learning Styles
This type of learner absorbs information mainly by reading it.
What is a visual learner?
Students who excel in academics.
What is a gifted student?
Academic rigor is not simply giving students this — it’s about depth and challenge.
What is more work?
A particular racial, national, or cultural group including that group’s customs, beliefs, values, and often language and religion.
What is diversity?
The ability to successfully work with people of all cultural backgrounds.
What is cultural competence?
These are ways that learners generally find effective to absorb and process information.
What are learning styles?
Allowing more student choice will allow students to.
What is draw on their strengths?
Academic rigor focuses on this rather than quantity.
What is quality?
Describes students who have difficulty communicating in English because it is not the native or primary language.
What is ELL or LEP?
Awareness of:
One’s Own Identity
Student Backgrounds
School community
What is cultural identity?
This type of learner absorbs information by performing it or using their hands/whole body.
What is kinesthetic-tactile learner?
This is used to provide the least restrictive, most effective learning environment.
What is an IEP?
Instead of being algorithmic and scripted, rigor encourages this type of thinking.
What is complex thinking?
Using several methods to teacher concepts, demonstrating, working in pairs, and summarizing .
What is helping English language learners?
Skills in:
Active Listening
Empathy
Engagement
What is knowledge and skills?
This type of learner absorbs information by listen to a presentation.
What is auditory learner?
Students are placed in one or more regular classes; not treated as special students.
What is mainstreaming?
Applying learning to new situations and deeply understanding complex ideas are examples of this.
What is academic rigor?
Listening to different ideas and opinions, learning to understand others, and trying new experiences stimulate thought and learning.
What is how diversity enriches learning?
Value of:
Asset-Based Teaching
Reflective Practices
What is embracing diversity?
Drawing on these will help a student learn more and expand in all areas.
What are multiple intelligences?
Students are in regular classes but not expected to keep up academically.
What is inclusion?
Relationships, differentiation, expectations, and options.
What is four ways to develop rigor in the classroom?
This student has only been in the United States school for less than three years.
What is a newcomer?
Provides structure, defines functions of individuals and groups, and sets up a process, or lifestyle, for individuals and groups.
What do you need to know about cultures?