Using flexible grouping instruction to create culturally relevant PK-12 learning communities for culturally and linguistically diverse learners with exceptionalities
Abstract
In this article, two instructional practices, Numbered Heads Together (NHT) and Carousel Brainstorming (CB), are discussed to guide instructors through the intentional practice of incorporating flexible groupings (CEC, HLP 17) in their daily instruction for the purpose of creating Culturally Relevant PK-12 Learning Communities for CLD Learners with Exceptionalities. Although NHT and CB are not the only approaches for implementing cooperative learning groups as an effective instructional tool, it is the authors’ premise that both practices successfully promote academic achievement and provide a positive, culturally relevant design for diverse learners, as well as a practitioner-friendly framework that is easily implemented. NHT and CB also serve as a means to provide students with a voice for their learning and to promote positive student behaviors. Regardless of the setting or identified disability, when facilitated with foresight and careful planning, evidence-based instructional best practices are supported, and inclusive course content is attained through the use of NHT and CB. Example lesson plans to intentionally incorporate both strategies are included within the article.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Editorial Comment
- Executive editor’s comments: sustaining our multicultural world
- Research Articles
- Lived experiences of Puerto Rican university students displaced to South Florida after Hurricane Maria
- Some analogical methods of teaching English as a second foreign language
- Creating equitable access and opportunity: predictors of success for college freshmen who participate in a Living Learning Community
- Using the Church to maximize the potential of learners with special needs
- Strategizing assessment to support emerging bilingual students: a focus on the home language
- A systematic review of culturally responsive teaching self-efficacy using confidence intervals
- Investigation of Iranian and Turkish English language teachers’ views, perspectives and experiences of teaching cultural content in English courses
- Using flexible grouping instruction to create culturally relevant PK-12 learning communities for culturally and linguistically diverse learners with exceptionalities
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Editorial Comment
- Executive editor’s comments: sustaining our multicultural world
- Research Articles
- Lived experiences of Puerto Rican university students displaced to South Florida after Hurricane Maria
- Some analogical methods of teaching English as a second foreign language
- Creating equitable access and opportunity: predictors of success for college freshmen who participate in a Living Learning Community
- Using the Church to maximize the potential of learners with special needs
- Strategizing assessment to support emerging bilingual students: a focus on the home language
- A systematic review of culturally responsive teaching self-efficacy using confidence intervals
- Investigation of Iranian and Turkish English language teachers’ views, perspectives and experiences of teaching cultural content in English courses
- Using flexible grouping instruction to create culturally relevant PK-12 learning communities for culturally and linguistically diverse learners with exceptionalities