Student populations are becoming more diverse. The range of diversity among current students is wide thus requiring all school personnel to become familiar with how each respective population group needs to be supported to achieve their career goals. This group is for all school personnel who aspire to discuss and master the competencies necessary for exemplary performance and top customer service in a dynamic, rapidly changing education landscape. Group members share best practices, ideas, thoughts, reflections, and resources to help colleagues across the globe improve performance.
Students have both learning difficulties and learning preferences. Being able to marry the two together to help each student be successful is important for professors to accomplish.
The difference between language and literacy, and how students can be literate with spoken/written words, but not necessarily academic words. Being able to meet students where they are, with appropriate resources, is important with all students.
Distinguishing between race and culture, and being able to speak inter-culturally to students rather than cross-culturally is important for their success in a classroom.
Being able to reach individual students instead of the class as a whole by using different teaching techniques and asking the students' preferences will allow the best learning environment for all students to succeed.
Include diversification of instruction and the sharing of information.
Each and every person is of value and has worth.
It is very important to always know the background of your student and to take into account if they speak more than one language. It is also important to understand that language is a big part of someone's culture and to include this knowledge when teaching student.
It is important to tailor each learning experience to each student. It is also important to note that culture does impact the learning environment. Furthermore, it is important to note that race is a constructed idea of grouping people together but not to allow race to impact your views on a certain person or group, remembering that each student is different regardless of if they share the same race.
It is very important as an educator to take into account each learner's post life experiences, background and learning style when teaching. If these things are not taken into account it leads to student success and learning abilities to decrease. It is a good idea to establish and learn about your students from the beginning in order to tailor learning to each individual student.
Learning that student learn in different ways and learning diversity helps promotes equity and inclusion.
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