Diverse Learners

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Diverse Learners

Possible Artifacts

  1. Paper (Diverse Learners Class)
  2. Lesson plan-with options for special learners (Early Child. & Child. Lit)
  3. “Learning Box” (Science Methods)
  4. Student Profile Assessment (Literacy & Early child)
  5. IEP observation paper (Spec. Ed.)
  6. Observation paper - respite volunteer
  7. Written response to a video on disabilities (Meeting the Needs)
  8. Term Paper “Inclusive Education” (Meeting the Needs & Human Relations)
  9. Piaget project (Dynamics)
  10. “Celebrating Diversity” thematic unit (Advanced Children’s Lit)
  11. Adaptations paper (Guidance & Early Child)
  12. Media portrayal of persons with special needs--project
  13. Level I Log addressing student diversity
  14. Group Presentation on Inclusion
  15. Paper on ADHD or other challenges for learners (meeting Needs, Early Childhood)
  16. Professional organization membership or participation in meetings (e.g. Autism Speaks, Mental Health Association)
  17. Paper on “Being Deaf for a Day” (Diverse Learners course assignment)
  18. Camp Adventure - picture of child & reflection
  19. Personal friend or family member with unique challenges (e.g., physically, intellectually, socially)
  20. Your own experience with people having a different cultural, racial, family, or educational background.
  21. Conferences--sessions you facilitated (include lesson plan), reflection about what participants might have learned and may apply at their schools, your understanding of diversity as a result of experience at conference

Connecting the artifact to this standard


DIVERSE LEARNERS: The candidate understands how students differ in their approaches to learning and creates instructional opportunities that are adapted to diverse learners.

How does each artifact show your growth in understanding the many different kinds of diversity and how you are sensitive to their diversity, and how you provide varied instructional opportunities to meet the needs of diverse learners.

  1. Show that you understand learners who look different, sound different, or have a different culture than you).
  2. What instructional opportunities have you created that were adapted to diverse learners.
  3. Show that you understand and have applied one or more of the following concepts:
  • Students’ strengths are used as the basis for growth;
  • Exceptionalities (LD, ADHD, visual problems, physical disabilities) are opportunities to understand/accept;
  • English as Second Language and its potential effects on communication;
  • Influence of language, culture, family and/or community values on learning