Personalizing alternatives for diverse learner groups: readability tools

Author(s):  
Debora Jeske ◽  
Nadia Pantidi ◽  
Mammed Bagher
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2020 ◽  
Vol 2019 (1) ◽  
pp. 84
Author(s):  
Ryota Moriya ◽  
Andrew Reimann ◽  
Shoko Moriya ◽  
Ryoko Sato

As classrooms become more diverse, the understanding of learner needs has evolved to include both visible and invisible needs. Traditionally, reasonable accommodation has been limited to supporting students with physical or cognitive requirements. This has evolved to include support for social, psychological, emotional, and even economic difficulties. Resources and institutional support remain underfunded and underdeveloped; it is therefore paramount that teachers are able to diagnose, communicate, and empathize with students who are displaying a wider range of learning needs and difficulties than ever before. Through such teacher awareness raising, we can provide scaffolding for our students and empower them to be successful. The field reports, analysis, and examples described in this study demonstrate how diverse learner needs can be better accommodated by helping learners choose or develop better learning environments for themselves. The objectives of this study were to raise awareness of diverse learner needs and share potential coping strategies. 教室における多様化が進むにつれ、学習者のニーズも、可視化された違いだけでなく不可視化された違いも含み、その対象を拡大してきた。合理的配慮も、社会的、精神的、そして経済的な学習困難を対象とする考え方に転換しつつある。一方で、学習資源と教育機関の支援は未だ発展途上にある。したがって、教師が様々な困難を抱える学習者のニーズを把握し、支援をすることがこれまで以上に求められている。このような認識の転換により、教育者は多様な学習者に学びの場を提供し、学習者の学習意欲を醸成することができる。本稿は、様々な事例の分析を通して、学習者自身が学習環境の向上に取り組むことを支援することが、どのように学習者の多様なニーズの充足に結び付くのかについて明らかにする。本稿が、学習者ニーズの認識を拡大し、教育的戦略の一つのモデルを提示し、言語教育に示唆を与えるものとなることを願う。


Author(s):  
Philomena S. Marinaccio ◽  
Kevin Leichtman ◽  
Rohan Hanslip

The English Language Arts (ELA) curriculum in United States (US) schools is failing students from ethnically and economically diverse communities. Standards for ELA have been accused of perpetuating inequality and causing a spiral of marginalization to continue for diverse learners. The current conceptualization of ELA and literacy does not reflect the complex set of diverse social, cultural, and linguistic dynamics inside and outside the classroom that influence the curriculum. Changes in the literacy curriculum need to be made that mirror changes in the world. The present chapter proposes an ELA curriculum that is flexible enough to respond to the socio-cultural synergy between language, identity, and power to combat diverse learner school resistance, misevaluation, and barriers to higher levels of literacy knowledge. There is an urgent need for a curriculum based on a universal and dynamic curriculum that acknowledges the identity and needs of each student. Our theoretical framework is based on the classic works of Piaget and Vygotsky and traces the history of ELA research from the deficit-based theories regarding the oral-literate continuum to the inclusive research design and pedagogy of “new literacies.” Being cognizant of myriad reading and cognitive development theories is needed to guide ELA educators in teaching reading and literacy. We need to go beyond blaming students to transforming and expanding the ELA curriculum through critique and reflection. The ELA curriculum must itself be potentially transformative in that it will embrace diverse learner discourses and identities by integrating rather than assimilating diverse learners into the classroom.


2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 287-301
Author(s):  
Hetty Roessingh

Storytelling in the classroom has long been recognized for its many benefits, especially as a bridge from orality to literacy. With the changing demographic landscape present in current elementary classrooms across Canada and internationally, storytelling reaps additional benefits for promoting the goals of inclusion among diverse learner profiles. This article provides an updated literature review reflecting these shifting instructional mandates, offers practical ideas for using storytelling in the contemporary classroom, and provides an illustrative sample of a co-constructed story between student and teacher, highlighting the many ways in which storytelling benefits all learners.


Author(s):  
Ke Zhang ◽  
Curtis J. Bonk

This paper critically reviews various learning preferences and human intelligence theories and models with a particular focus on the implications for online learning. It highlights a few key models, Gardner’s multiple intelligences, Fleming and Mills’ VARK model, Honey and Mumford’s Learning Styles, and Kolb’s Experiential Learning Model, and attempts to link them to trends and opportunities in online learning with emerging technologies. By intersecting such models with online technologies, it offers instructors and instructional designers across educational sectors and situations new ways to think about addressing diverse learner needs, backgrounds, and expectations. Learning technologies are important for effective teaching, as are theories and models and theories of learning. We argue that more immense power can be derived from connections between the theories, models and learning technologies. Résumé : Cet article passe en revue de manière critique les divers modèles et théories sur les préférences d’apprentissage et l’intelligence humaine, avec un accent particulier sur les implications qui en découlent pour l’apprentissage en ligne. L’article présente quelques-uns des principaux modèles (les intelligences multiples de Gardner, le modèle VAK de Fleming et Mills, les styles d’apprentissage de Honey et Mumford et le modèle d’apprentissage expérientiel de Kolb) et tente de les relier à des tendances et occasions d’apprentissage en ligne qui utilisent les nouvelles technologies. En croisant ces modèles avec les technologies Web, les instructeurs et concepteurs pédagogiques dans les secteurs de l’éducation ou en situation éducationnelle se voient offrir de nouvelles façons de tenir compte des divers besoins, horizons et attentes des apprenants. Les technologies d’apprentissage sont importantes pour un enseignement efficace, tout comme les théories et les modèles d’apprentissage. Nous sommes d’avis qu’en établissant des liens entre les théories, les modèles et les technologies d’apprentissage, il est possible d’obtenir un résultat plus puissant. This article has been translated to Armenian. Click here for the translation.


This chapter explores traditional theorists as they apply to our current context in higher education. With a more diverse learner population entering higher education institutions, administrators and instructors need to recognize and utilize the building blocks of the theory that have brought higher education to where it is today. Included are not only traditional theorists, but their back, major concepts of the theory, how the theory applies to current administrators and instructors, and reference materials to learn more. Finally, case studies are included that provide opportunities to synthesize chapter information and provide discussion.


2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 174-188
Author(s):  
Zachary Walker ◽  
James B. Hale ◽  
Shen-Hsing Annabel Chen ◽  
Kenneth Poon

2012 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 231-250 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Scarino

In school languages education in Australia at present there is an increasing diversity of languages and learners learning particular languages that results from a greater global movement of students. This diversity builds on a long-established profile of diversity that reflects the migration history of Australia. It stands in sharp contrast to the force of standardisation in education in general and in the history of the development of state and national frameworks for the learning of languages K-12 in Australia and indeed beyond. These frameworks have characteristically generalised across diverse languages, diverse learner groups and diverse program conditions, in particular, the amount of time made available for language learning. In addition, in the absence of empirical studies of learner achievements in learning particular languages over time, the development of such frameworks has drawn primarily on internationally available language proficiency descriptions [such as the American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), the International Second Language Proficiency Rating Scale (ISLPR), and more recently the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR)] that were developed primarily to serve reporting and credentialing rather than learning purposes. Drawing on a description of the current context of linguistic and cultural diversity and on a brief characterisation of the history of curriculum and assessment framework development for the languages area, I provide a rationale for acknowledging in the development and use of frameworks (i.e. descriptions of achievements) the diversity of languages that comprise the languages learning area in Australia and, in particular, the diverse learner groups who come to their learning with diverse experiences of learning and using particular languages. The Student Achievement in Asian Languages Education (SAALE) study provides an example of the development of descriptions of achievement that are sensitive to these dimensions of context. I discuss the rationale for such context-sensitive descriptions in relation to their potential purposes and uses at the language policy and planning and educational systems level, at the teaching and learning level, and in ongoing research.


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