A Study on the Problems Faced by Teachers in a Mixed-Ability Class.

Adapt learning environments, instructional strategies, and assessment techniques to meet the needs of culturally and developmentally diverse students.

Diversity encompasses numerous characteristics including socio-economic background, ethnicity, special needs, gender, and giftedness (Cazden, 2001). Today, classrooms are getting more varied and diverse with students from diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds, and students with a disability. It appears that teachers must meet the needs of all students successfully and individually to effectively teach a classroom of diverse students. This paper will first identify three challenges involved with ensuring that teaching strategies are

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The inability of the educational system to provide equitable education leads to the achievement gap between different groups of students. The most important elements of the mixed quality classroom are the need to facilitate knowledge constructions for students that have different abilities. Differentiation of learning is the only way for facilitating effective learning for all the students in a mixed-ability classroom (Paul & Elder, 2013).

There are few issues in education that are as controversial as Inclusion. This topic resonates powerful feelings on both sides of the spectrum. Largely due to the fact that it relates not only to educational values but social values as well. On one side, advocates believe inclusion would have a negative impact on the classroom, due to a lack of teaching resources, which would disrupt the already limited individual instruction time. However, the other side has seen that the inclusion of students at all learning levels has a positive effect in the classroom because it creates a progressive social and educational environment.

As we have learned this week, the meaning of the term diversity has evolved throughout the years and has a plethora of different definitions. Diversity can include students that are exceptional learners; multiple intelligences and learning styles; different ethnicity, race, and culture; different gender and religion; and even different socioeconomic status (“Notes On Diversity,” n.d.). According to Florian (2012), “the increasing cultural, linguistic, and developmental diversity of today’s classrooms demands more inclusive approaches to schooling, but classroom teachers often report feeling unprepared for inclusive education”. The articles’ findings that I read, Preparing Teachers to Work in Inclusive Classrooms: Key Lesson for the Professional

Promoting diversity and equality in education is essential both for teachers and for students. The main goal of holistic learning is to create a classroom environment where each student can thrive in learning as well as understand that the individual characteristics are meant to make people unique and not different. This means creating a classroom environment that is inclusive of all learners. A teacher should design an environment that pays attention to the needs of students from diverse backgrounds including learning and assessment process that ensures that every student is given consideration in terms of accessibility and inclusivity. A diverse learning environment must also incorporate

Whilst the skill of looking up a definition of a word is a relatively simple activity for high level learners with positive learning attitude, this mixed ability classroom is primarily a low to average ability class, whose instinct would be to complete learning quickly rather than correctly. Using Direct Instruction the teacher is able to control outcomes to ensure the success of all students foreseeing problems and difficulties that may arise during the activity and explain in clear ways how students may overcome these difficulties so that nothing is left to interpretation. (Killen, 2013, p.

The current state of inclusivity and diversity in a self-contained environment is equal and fair treatment for all students. The class population consists of eight male students. Six of the students are Caucasians while the other two students are African Americans. The students have varied disabilities to include autism, multiple disabilities, speech impairment, and intellectual disabilities. Each student receive instruction based on their instructional needs and each student has access to the resources that are available to them. Moreover, each student participates in two electives and join the general population for lunch.

Differentiation is an advanced form of scaffolding designed to meet each students level and ability. Pearl Subban proposes that teachers can create a model of differentiated instruction to increase academic diversity. Subban reports that,“ current educational trends across the globe reflect significant changes in student populations from two or three decades ago” (2006). In the 21st century we have the inclusion of students that range from english language learners, special needs students, and gate students. In order to differentiate instruction, we must recognize student’s diverse cultural backgrounds and how that plays a role in adjusting curriculum to meet the needs of all students. Subban’s work clarifies or makes apparent the gap between the learning stances of responsive teachers who do not want to change their

When it comes to teaching, it is important that you, as a teacher, have the best interest for your students at heart. Also, it is important that you make sure that you provide your students with the abilities that they will need in order to succeed not only in the classroom, but also in everyday life. Although this may appear to be an easy task, it could be problematic, such that there are students in the classroom who may have certain disabilities that you will have to attend to. It is up to the teacher to attend to these student’s needs and prepare them for things that they will face everyday.

The key to the effectiveness of inclusion could be argued as discussed in our textbook in chapter 2. That Inclusion is now a worldwide educational issue and we have become aware that our real problem is deciding which students should be taught what criteria, which students need special attention and where or who will provide

Education is a very important part of society and weighs heavily on human development. It is presented to lay the foundation of knowledge and intellectual welfare for all people. However people being different physically, mentally, and emotionally brings in all types of groups. The diversity in society provides specific challenges for educators sworn to provide an equal effective educational opportunity for all they must have a plan of action to teach all students in their classroom. With more and more classes becoming inclusive educators are more likely than not to have at least one student who

This article is a short overview of the Eclectic theory or ideology of teaching English. A discovery of where the origins of the philosophy were born, and why it evolved and stayed alive in many fields of study to this day.. While many old school linguists see it as un principled and vague without any structure, is does have strong concepts and principles about language acquisition and learning environments, choices of activities and reasons for these varieties, A look at what prominent linguists say about the advantages and the disadvantages of this theory.

Bremner (2008:2) argues that, ‘a mixed ability class does not just consist of a range of abilities but also a range of learning styles and