Description

Welcome to Teaching Diversity: Influences & Issues in the Classroom, an interactive computer-based instruction course designed to give you the knowledge and tools to facilitate a diverse classroom effectively. This course will help you understand and identify differences in approaches to learning and performance, including different learning styles and ways in which students demonstrate learning. This course will emphasize understanding how students’ learning is influenced by individual experiences, talents, disabilities, gender, language, culture, family, and community values. You will be challenged to apply knowledge of the richness of contributions from our diverse society to your teaching field.

This computer-based instruction course is a self-supporting program that provides instruction, structured practice, and evaluation all on your home or school computer. Technical support information can be found, in the Help section of your course.

Syllabus, Objectives, and Outcomes

Objectives:

As a result of this course, participants will demonstrate their ability to:

• Reflect through online exams how participants can combine and apply their knowledge of learning styles and teaching theories in a multicultural classroom. Participants will be challenged to honestly evaluate their own attitudes and teaching, and to change those if necessary in order to teach so that all students succeed in their classrooms.
• Analyze how poverty issues in our society affect the students in classrooms.
• Gather information from several sources on individual student cultures, knowledge, skills, language proficiencies, and interests.
• Gather information from several sources on individual students’ special needs.
• Discuss development patterns of classroom interactions that are friendly and demonstrate general caring and respect.
• Apply a system that responds successfully to disrespectful behavior among students.
• Employ behavioral intervention to remediate disruptive, negative, and/or self-destructive behavior.
• Employ positive framing to model and reinforce appropriate student behavior and redirect inappropriate student behavior.
• Initiate regular communication with families to discuss class and individual activities.

Course Materials (Online):

Title: Teaching Diversity: Influences & Issues in the Classroom, Dr. Karen Lea

Review Syllabus:  Teaching_Diversity_Karen_Lea_VESi.pdf

Online registration URL closes @ 5:00 p.m. on August 2, 2024.