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Meeting the Needs of Diverse Learners in English Language Arts Case…
Meeting the Needs of Diverse Learners in English Language Arts Case Study
Paradise Canyon is a public high school serving Grades 9-12. It is a large Division 6 urban school in a mostly lower middle-class neighborhood. Five public middle schools and three charter middle schools feed into Paradise Canyon. It has very competitive and high-ranking football and soccer teams. The student population is 60% African American, 20% Hispanic, 10% Caucasian, 9% Asian, and 1% Native American.
Scenario
You have 50 minutes per day to teach your remedial high school students the required English language arts content and skill they will be tested on in the district assessments. You have two months before the first district benchmark exam, five months before the second district benchmark exam, and seven months before the state standardized test.Each class period, you start with a warm-up grammar practice. You then introduce the reading for the day. You or the students read portions aloud in turn. Using the questions from the textbook, you guide students through discussion of the reading. Their exit ticket is a short paragraph summarizing the reading and the discussion. You then assign homework. Every Friday, you give an assessment of the week’s material with a few questions from previous material. Your class agenda is predictable, consistent, and covers the required material.Your students’ scores on their work and assessments are very low after the first unit, and they seem lethargic and uninterested in general. As you are grading the students’ exams, you are displeased with the scores. You come across a student’s test on which he has written, “This class is boring. You are boring. This is stupid, and I will never use this again.” You stare at this note for a moment. You let it sink in
Use the “Meeting the Needs of Diverse Learners in English Language Arts Case Study” to complete the topic assignment.
summary response to the following:
How can you build relevancy of the content and skills that are being presented so the students see the application and value of learning in an authentic way that the content and skill are meaningful for them?
How can you use assessment data to show growth and help students change their self-competency beliefs regarding their own ability?
Creative opportunities inspire, motivate, and challenge people. How can you integrate creativity into this course to deepen learning, enrich concepts, make the concepts more interesting, strengthen problem-solving, encourage risk-taking, and build connections between concepts?
How can you use this case study to improve your future instruction including using assessment data, providing feedback to students, and adjusting instruction to meet the needs of diverse students?
