Assignment task:
Use the chapter reading material on Student Diversity: Culture, Language, Gender, and Exceptionalities to complete this assignment.
After reading the chapter, read over each of the questions and choose one topic. Provide a detailed and scholarly summary response to your chosen topic below.
Define the term culture. Explain how culture, cultural diversity, and ethnicity influences learning. What multicultural approaches can educators use to enhance students learning and demonstrate culturally responsive teaching?
Describe at least three major approaches for helping EL students learn.
Explain how gender differences influences school success and how effective teachers respond to these differences.
Explain the specifics of PL 94-142 the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and the guidelines it provides for working with students with exceptionalities.
Explain how schools have changed the ways they help meet students with exceptionalities needs, and support learners.
Explain how federal legislation has identified students for special services. Identify the categories and percentages of students with exceptionalities.
Who is Howard Gardner and what were his views on intelligence and learning? Describe and identify Gardner's theory and the dimensions of intelligence.
What is emotional intelligence? What are some of the factors associated with mature emotional intelligence and immature emotional intelligence?
What are learning styles? In at least one paragraph with five or more sentences, explain why it is important to help children identify and recognize their learning style?
What is an IEP and the components addressed in the IEP?
Summary Paper Guidelines
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No extra space between paragraphs
Indent each paragraph
Your paper must be at least 2 pages in length (Title Page and Reference Page does not count as your 2 pages of content)
Complete in Microsoft Word
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Give your paper structure with an opening paragraph, main body, and conclusion.
The opening paragraph may be brief, about 4 to 5 sentences, but it should offer some overall statement of your perspective based on what you've learned
Include in-text references and a reference page for any materials you cite using APA citation formatting.