Teaching Diverse Students: Teachers understand the diverse characteristics and abilities of students and how individuals develop and learn within the context of their social, economic, cultural, linguistic, and academic experiences. Teachers use these experiences to create opportunities that maximize student learning.
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The picture to the above shows when I was a paraprofessional at Elim Christian Services for their ESY program. The student I worked with had cerebral palsy. Many of the activities the class did needed to be modified so she can accessibly do them. Instead of doing a paper and pen worksheet like her other classmate we needed to make the activity accessible because of her fine motor issues. Coming up to the board and using a pointer with a ball on top is easier for her to point/move the objects. There is more room for her which makes it easier for her to work because of her fine motor issues.
These three below were a group of 4th graders we would pull for intervention. The boy closets to me is an ESL learner. The boy farthest from me does not have an IEP but has moved schools a lot and was very low so the school began interventions with him. The girl was just moved from self contained to resource room with us. All of these students have very different backgrounds from their at homes lives, to culture, to academics needs. Because it was me and my cooperating teacher we often rotated between the kids to work with them on their specific needs and do stations for the needs that were similar. They were a hard working bunch that got along well and taught me a lot about how to work and learn about kids and their varying needs and experiences.
The pictures to the left and right are stations the kids do called finger jam. These are a minute and thirty second rotations to be work on building hand strength and fine motor skills. The one to the left is for building hand strength but using a hole puncher to punch out holes from the paper. The worksheets on the right are for fine motor skills. You trace the lines on one worksheet and cut on the line for the other.
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