Overview

Developers: Northeast and Islands Regional Educational Laboratory at Brown University; Belinda Williams, Senior Developer

This is the resource to turn to first when your school is looking for wasy to educate a more diverse student population.

Use of this kit in smaller groups offers participants the opportunity to learn and apply new ideas on educating linguistically and culturally diverse students. Explore common theories, research, and practice important to educating diverse student populations, including techniques for ESL learners.

The first folder in the eight-folder series provides teachers with a rationale for and clear instructions on forming a successful study group. The remaining folders are titled:

• Why Educating Diverse Student Populations Requires Leadership for Change
• Culture and Learning: Guidelines for Considering Culture and Its Influence on Teaching and Learning
• Appropriate Instruction for English Language Learners: Emphasis on Oral Interaction
• What Standards-Based Learning Means for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Schools
• Initiating and Sustaining Meaningful Schoolwide Reforms
• Professional Development: Strategies for Improved Achievement
• Extending Your Learning.

(ASCD Professional Inquiry Kit, 1998) Eight activity folders and a videotape.

Related Resources:

• Meeting the Needs of Second Language Learners: An Educator's Guide
  
• Educating Everybody's Children: Diverse Teaching Strategies for Diverse Learners, Revised and Expanded 2nd Edition
  
• Creating an Inclusive School, 2nd Edition
  
• Managing Diverse Classrooms: How to Build on Students’ Cultural Strengths
  
• Classroom Instruction That Works with English Language Learners Book