Discussion 1

Analyze how you can maintain high standards and demonstrate high expectations for all ethnically, culturally, and linguistically diverse students in the classroom.

I believe that I can maintain high standards or all of my students by first establishing classroom management and hold all of my students to high expectations no matter their special population. I believe that all students can learn, it’s all about tapping into their interests and building on what they like to do. The specific behaviors that teachers engage in clearly communicate their expectations for students. I can focus on the ways in which I can ensure that my students understand that they have high expectations as well as ways for helping my students meet those expectations. I will differentiate instruction to address the diverse learning styles, needs, and skills found in my classroom. Through differentiated instruction, students are challenged but not frustrated and teachers are able to facilitate learning.

Discuss how you would differentiate instruction for the inclusion of various learning styles.

We are all smart, but in different ways. With their being Visual/Spatial, Verbal/Linguistic, Bodily/Kinesthetic, and Musical/Rhythmic learners in my classroom I will make sure that my instruction fosters drawing, creating, illustrating, and learning from photographs, videos, and other visual aids. Reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills for my students that are verbal and linguistic. hands-on activity: games, movement, role-play, and building and manipulating things for my students that are kinesthetic. And last, songs, patterns, rhythms, instruments, chants, listening to music, and other forms of musical expression for my students that learn better through music and rhythm. To make my class a classroom of inclusion, all of the students will have to interact in every aspect of the learning process nit just what really interest them.

Reflect on ways in which you would modify instruction for special education students.

There are students in my class that may need some differentiated and/or individualized attention because they have special needs related to specific physical, emotional, or behavioral challenges. For example, I had a child in one of my classes that could not hear as well as some of the other students. First, I let the director know that I had a student that may need some special attention in the classroom. I began to use the board more in the classroom, I moved that child up to the front of the class. And when I talked to that child or talked to the class in general I made sure that child could see my out as it moved.