Acknowledging the learning styles of diverse student populations: Implications for instructional design

1992 ◽  
Vol 1992 (49) ◽  
pp. 19-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
James A. Anderson ◽  
Maurianne Adams
Keyword(s):  
Instructional Design ◽  
Learning Styles ◽  
Diverse Student Populations ◽  
Diverse Student

scholarly journals Differentiation in the Digital-Based Classroom: A Universal Design Approach for Inclusive Settings in Middle Schools

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen McCoy ◽  
Sarup Mathur
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
English Language Learners ◽  
Learning Styles ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
English Language ◽  
Learning Needs ◽  
Autistic Behavior ◽  
Diverse Classrooms ◽  
Inclusive Settings ◽  
Diverse Student

Teachers across the world have become barraged with various techniques to meet the educational needs of multiple subgroups, e.g., autistic, behavior disorders, English Language Learners (ELL), gifted. They have the responsibility of creating environments in which learners become more knowledgeable and skilled from the time when they entered the classroom. For the current and future generations of learners and their teachers, the emergence of technology has created new prospects for accommodating the learning styles of diverse classrooms. The versatility of technology can be used to organize and design material that promotes successful acquisition and retention of expected middle school content within the inclusive settings. In this paper, the authors provide a greater understanding of how technology can be an effective change agent for learning in middle school inclusive settings. Suggestions are included for teachers’ capacity building to integrate technology to accommodate diverse student learning needs and styles.

Youth and Schools’ Practices in Hyper-Diverse Contexts

2016 ◽  
Vol 53 (6) ◽  
pp. 1491-1521 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Brigid Malsbary
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Linguistically Diverse ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Public High Schools ◽  
Diverse Classrooms ◽  
Diverse Student Populations ◽  
Teachers Beliefs ◽  
Diverse Student

The article presents findings from a multisited ethnography in two public high schools in Los Angeles and New York City. Schools were chosen for their hyper-diverse student populations. Students came from over 40 countries, speaking 20 languages in one school and 33 languages in another. Results of analysis found that despite contrasting missions, policies, organizational structures, curricular techniques, and teachers’ beliefs and attitudes across schools, youths’ practices were similar. Youth enacted explicit transcultural repertoires of practice: multiplicities of talking, thinking, and acting that engaged the resources and opportunities of ethnically and linguistically diverse classrooms. The article theorizes the importance of recognizing hyper-diversity as a distinct cultural context that shapes and situates youths’ practices and therefore their opportunities to learn.

Pre-Service Teachers' Intercultural Sensitivity, Multicultural Efficacy, and Attitudes Toward Multilingualism

2019 ◽  
pp. 211-227
Author(s):  
Ioannis Karras ◽  
Julia A. Spinthourakis ◽  
Vasilia Kourtis-Kazoullis
Keyword(s):  
Culturally Diverse ◽  
Language Attitudes ◽  
Intercultural Sensitivity ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Diverse Students ◽  
Culturally Diverse Students ◽  
Program Of Study ◽  
Diverse Student Populations ◽  
Diverse Student ◽  
Different Populations

Preparing teachers to assist linguistically and culturally diverse students to integrate is difficult as the paradigm is not limited to students but radiates outwards. Preparation of teachers in Greece has involved the incorporation of foreign languages and courses in multiculturalism in their program of study in an effort to promote multilingualism (ML), multicultural efficacy (ME), and intercultural sensitivity (IS). In this research brief, the authors attempt to look at how we prepare teachers to meet increased challenges migration of very different populations brings to their teaching as well as how their attitude toward multilingualism, ME, and IS may be interrelated. The study's main objectives are to measure this group's level of IS, ME, and multilingual language attitudes and examine their relationship. The goal is to determine how well equipped these pre-service teachers are to deal with the linguistically and culturally diverse student populations they will be called upon to teach and what facilitates them achieving this end.

Using Technology to Bridge the Intercultural Gap in the Classrooms of K-8 ENL Students

TPACK ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 222-238
Author(s):  
Renee White-Clark ◽  
Shawn Robertson ◽  
Ashley Lovett
Keyword(s):  
Culturally Responsive Teaching ◽  
Culturally Responsive ◽  
Linguistically Diverse ◽  
Educational Opportunities ◽  
Responsive Teaching ◽  
Linguistically Diverse Students ◽  
Pedagogical Expertise ◽  
Diverse Student Populations ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Diverse Student

The transformation of today's classrooms' demographics and the demand for instructional technology has created a challenge for many teachers. While teachers must comply with Common Core Standards and infuse technology throughout the curriculum, they must also differentiate instruction for their diverse student populations. Therefore, the success of all students requires teachers to bridge the intercultural gap in the classrooms of ENL students. This imperative task encompasses the orchestration of teachers' pedagogical expertise of culturally responsive teaching, literacy instruction, technological engagement, and parental partnership. This chapter will discuss the enhancement of the educational opportunities of linguistically diverse students, while emphasizing the importance of these elements. The authors will disseminate the theoretical framework for understanding the integral aspects of the teachers' dilemma, and provide practical instructional ideas and resources for educators to feasibly implement to improve their use of technology in their respective classrooms.

Understanding Teachers' Cultural Competencies

2020 ◽  
pp. 1447-1467
Author(s):  
Inna N. Dolzhenko ◽  
Jemimah L. Young
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Teacher Preparation ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Social Awareness ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Cultural Competencies ◽  
Diverse Student Populations ◽  
Diverse Student

As linguistic and cultural diversity in public schools continues to rise, an increased need for culturally aware teachers is warranted. This chapter informs the development of cultural competencies in teachers by integrating anti-bias education (ABE) goals into teacher preparation. Existing research in preparing teachers to work with diverse student populations tends to focus on how teachers gain appropriate knowledge and practices to work effectively at school. However, there is little evidence that researchers have approached the issue of developing teacher's cultural competencies with the intent of building a cohesive understanding and providing practical tools, such as ABE goals, to positively influence the development of social awareness and self-awareness in teachers and their students. Consequently, the aim of this chapter is to provide empirical evidence to substantiate the instructional importance of understanding the development of teacher's cultural competencies.

Intergenerational Learning Styles, Instructional Design Strategy, and Learning Efficacy

2020 ◽  
pp. 40-51
Author(s):  
Michael G. Strawser ◽  
Renee Kaufmann
Keyword(s):  
Instructional Design ◽  
Learning Styles ◽  
Learning Style ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Design Strategy ◽  
Instructional Designers ◽  
Intergenerational Learning ◽  
Educational Design ◽  
Broad Base ◽  
Learning Efficacy

Instructional designers must appeal to a variety of audience members both in terms of competency and preferred learning style. Though many factors may influence learning style, generational preferences may provide instructional designers a broad base of understanding undergirding strategic educational design choices. While it would be naive, and even inaccurate, to assume that Millennials constitute the only unique generational challenge for instructional designers, their sheer presence in organizations and their education expectations have changed the game—so to speak. Thus, in an attempt to clarify generational uniqueness, this chapter will explore general generational instructional trends while positioning instructional design as a necessary answer to 21st century learning efficacy challenges.

The Cultural Adaptation of E-Learning

2011 ◽  
pp. 308-325 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea L. Edmundson
Keyword(s):  
Instructional Design ◽  
Learning Styles ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Cultural Analysis ◽  
Instructional Designer ◽  
Course Content ◽  
Instructional Methodologies ◽  
Cultural Preferences ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Design Skills

Culturally appropriate instructional design requires the integration of instructional design skills with intercultural knowledge. In e-learning, as in classroom-based courses, courses that accommodate the learning styles and cultural preferences of the targeted learners will offer the best—and fastest—learning outcomes. In this chapter, the author illustrates how to modify an existing e-learning course—or design one ‘from scratch’—that aligns the course content, the instructional methodologies (including activities and assessments) and the technology to the needs and environment of learners in other countries. The ‘smart’ instructional designer conducts a cultural analysis and makes validated changes to e-learning courses, before they are sent for translation, localization, or final production.

Indigenous Student Experience in Higher Education

2022 ◽  
pp. 254-266
Author(s):  
Lawrence F. Camacho ◽  
Arline E. Leon Guerrero
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Student Experiences ◽  
Indigenous Students ◽  
University Campuses ◽  
College And University ◽  
Indigenous Student ◽  
Diverse Student Populations ◽  
Diverse Student ◽  
Education Today ◽  
College And University Campuses

Higher education today is faced with many challenges. However, behind some of those challenges are potential opportunities. One in particular is the focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion, and especially the unpacking of systems and processes that are increasingly becoming more prevalent in higher education's ecosystem of support, mainly for Indigenous students. This is due in large part to the global shift in the rising diverse student populations across college and university campuses. Indigenous students are entering today's evolving college landscape with a clear sense of purpose. To take advantage of this opportunity, institutions are pivoting their support structures to also facilitate their diverse student populations and learning outcomes. They are developing programs to make sense of the Indigenous student experiences, issues, challenges, and are paying special attention to strategies and infrastructures designed to safeguard their student success.

scholarly journals Preparing Teachers for Diversity: A Literature Review and Implications from Community-Based Teacher Education

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huanshu Yuan
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
Teacher Education Programs ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Qualified Teachers ◽  
Diverse Student Populations ◽  
Instructional Context ◽  
Diverse Student

This study reviewed current issues in preparing qualified teachers for increasing diverse student populations in the U.S. and in other multicultural and multiethnic countries. Based on the framework of community-based and multicultural teacher education, this literature review paper analyzed issues and problems existed in the current curriculum, content, and practicum in traditional teacher education programs in addressing cultural knowledge and competence of preparing pre-service teachers in a multicultural society. Drawing from implications from community-based teacher education, this paper proposed several suggested strategies to reform traditional teacher education programs to meet the needs from multicultural and multiracial student populations and instructional context. 

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