Chapter Two- Methods of Social Studies

Essential Questions

Response

1. How will student diversity affect your instruction? 2. How does a teacher show respectfulness of those differences in young people? 3. If students differ in their readiness levels, interests, and learning preferences; how would this impact the types of resources we gather for the instructional unit? How about the planning of student learning tasks?

1. Diversity will have a huge influence in my classroom. Each student will bring a different view to the table and help enrich the classroom experience. The more diverse the classroom is, the more the students will learn about different cultures. My goal is to have every student learn as much about others as possible. 2. A teacher can show respectfulness of the different background each student has by giving each student 5 minutes to tell others about themselves. At the beginning of each day, a student would share a little bit about his/ her background. Once all the students got through their presentations, we would have a cultural awareness party. Each student would bring a food from the background of the culture. There are many more ways to increase awareness for the students and show respectfulness. 3. Well as teachers, we have to be flexible and willing to teach students of all levels. There are going to be students who will fly ahead and learn on their own and there will be other who needs more guided experience. We need to be able to find many different resources for our students; whether it is technology, additional readings, and other resources. The planning will just need to be more thought out, better planned, and takes more time. The learning tasks will have a variety of objectives and ways to do each task.