Therefore, differentiated instruction may be the panacea that educators are searching for. Though differentiated instruction seems to be a broad term, it mainly refers to those classroom practices embodying student learning styles, interest, and prior knowledge (Benjamin, 2002)
Though differentiated instruction seems to be a broad term, it mainly refers to those classroom practices embodying student learning styles, interest, and prior knowledge (Benjamin, 2002). Understandably, state standards represent the knowledge to be taught, but differentiated instruction gives a meaningful way to teach those required standards (Protheroe, 2007)
However research supports the notion that increase autonomy in the classroom is beneficial for students (Van Tassell, 2004). Research also support the notion that students with poor self-esteem generally exhibit more problems and negative behaviors in the classroom (Edwards, 1994)
Setting up a positive classroom environment will encourage power and control over the classroom. Teachers must aspire to set up a win-sin situation for students, which can generally be accomplished through a positive learning environment, one that defines expectations and reinforces rules through adequate volumes of praise and encouragement for students behaving well, and sanctions or harsh treatment when things go wrong (Lewis, 2004)
Students are motivated by a variety of different factors within the classroom environment. Teachers can enhance student motivation and learning by giving up some control and encouraging students to self-asses their progress (Van Tassell, 2004)
Having worked with students from diverse ethnic backgrounds I learned that teachers have to work with students to set goals oriented toward improving competency in intercultural communication. A major goal of learning is facilitation of basic literacy and language skills of difference students, the importance of which stems from a persistent school failure in the United States of students with Hispanic, African-American and American Indian background (Gay, 1994)
S. school system multicultural education is consistently being re-focused, conceptualized and in a constant state of evolution (Gorski & Covert, 2000)
Having taught secondary education in a private school setting for more than 10 years, I have learned many things about teaching children in a multi-cultural setting, which this essay will address. Intercultural communication and associated intercultural sensitivity, whether taught in a middle or high school may be defined as the ability to communicate with individuals of varying backgrounds, ethnicities, beliefs, morals and cultures in a manner that is meaningful and encourages knowledge sharing (Neulipe, 2003)
In addition, more values that this mode of knowledge delivery will add to the education system are to be discussed and be justified. Assuming implementation, drawbacks highly likely to be experienced during transition from print textbooks to digital textbooks are to be addressed, with a solution for each drawback being discussed in order to ensure that the feasibility of this large-scale project is viable for smooth approval and transition (Frabish, 2009)
Most readers have a cost to the tune of over $200, a situation that may discriminate students from the lower class. These issues would terribly isolate the lower class students not able to purchase such gadgets, thus class education as a status quo aspect (Fioriello, 2010)
The advent of Digital Textbooks would completely eliminate the need to carry bulky textbooks in a bid of knowledge search. Moreover, with the advancement of technology, lighter gadgets are bound to be developed that would further eliminate the clause that education is a burden (Catone, 2009)
A solution for this would, however, be to initiate engagement and commitment to the government implementing the very education curriculum to help service the finance for buying the equipment. This would better the speed of transition and will further ensure that such gadgets are school-owned, ensuring subsequent classes and students have enough supply of knowledge tools (Sager, 2011)
These E-books comprised of basically electronically processed versions of print books that had the same features apart from the mode of delivery. However, the current print industry has the threat of a more technologically advanced mode of delivering books: the new era Digital books (Federra, 2006)
Such features would include searching, zooming, and editing. With the case of a print text book, the furthest action one would perform to the physical print is drawing in it or underlining the content, something believed to be destructive in the long run especially if the book is intended for use by other future academics (Jefferson, 2010)
Still on the issue of internet connectivity, rather than students having to physically face the teacher before any knowledge is imparted, he connectivity will enable the connection between the tutors and the students to efficiently communicate and relay information that could largely include academic information. This value could greatly improve teacher-student interaction as it would eliminate the previous fears that some students had in interacting with their teachers physically (Rath, 2011)
Training usually requires considerable amount of time and expenditure thus slowing the whole process of adoption. Solution to this would be to initiate training while still maintaining the print textbook curriculum and only shift after both parties were ready for transition (Chris, 2005)
This is the point, they can become disconnected with everyone else and fall behind the class. (Jordan, 2011) (Scott, 2010) The student's problem behavior is for their inability to focus for long periods of time
This is the point, they can become disconnected with everyone else and fall behind the class. (Jordan, 2011) (Scott, 2010) The student's problem behavior is for their inability to focus for long periods of time
On the micro issue, within the classroom, most experts say that overcrowding can be better managed if the instructor is positive, engaging, and committed to teaching with whatever extremes occur. Keeping lessons relevant and interesting, modeling empathy and courteous behavior, and changing the classroom set-up to reflect openness whenever possible will, in the long run, improve many of the general problems engendered by too many students in a class (Green, 2010)
This is likely due to the fact that most school systems and parental expectations are not set up for 12-month schools, and the programs attempted were not long or robust enough to see longitudinal details. Additionally, teacher morale tended to drop in the 12-month program, as well as mobile classrooms, in which both the teacher and the student feel more isolated (McMullen and Rouse, 2012)