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The candidate plans and develops science curriculum addressing the needs of
students with differing social or cultural backgrounds or learning styles.
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- Diverse teaching strategies - Throughout my
teaching, I utilized a variety of teaching strategies so as to meet the
needs of different learning styles. This included: (1)
large cooperative groups,
(2)
partner cooperative groups,
(3)
individualized activities,
(4)
online activities, (5)
hands-on activities,
(6) role-playing activities (indoors
and
outdoors), (6) and
teacher-directed lectures
using PowerPoint (hard copy and online version of
notes outline made
available to all students), just to name a few.
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Prior
Knowledge Investigation - This lesson was taught in a middle school
science classroom that included a high percentage of minority students,
thus the lesson was tailored to their age level and cultural background. I
included Lil' Bow Wow's hereditary traits and discussed sickle cell anemia
at length, versus including an older, white famous figure and discussing
a disease like Tay- Sach's (low frequency in black populations).
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Reflection:
Adolescent Learners and Diversity - This reflection discusses some
strategies that can be used to meet the needs of diverse learners,
including ELL students, students with an IEP/504, as well as those regular
education students that benefit from oral, written, and/or hands-on
teaching strategies.
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