Instructional Practices Addressing Student Diversity I PASD

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Instructional Practices Addressing Student
Diversity I PASD

• Cycle 3 Project
• Black Gold Regional School Division
• Faye Gertz Tia Martini

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Overview

• Project Origins
• Project Goals and Measurements
• Project Strategies
• Project Innovations
• Professional Development Model
• Parent Involvement

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Project Goals

• To increase high school completion rates
• To increase successful course completion at the
  Senior High level
• To increase successful course completion at the
  Junior High level

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Project Measures

• Quantitative Measures
• attendance rates
• course completion rates (number of students that
  finish a course they began)
• 3 and 5 year high school completion
• Qualitative Measures
• satisfaction survey questions
• Descriptions of Quality
• teacher reports on strategies added to repertoire
• students describing examples of learning that
  work for them

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Project Strategies

• Create an inviting environment for learning
• Increase awareness of student diversity
• Build positive relationships between staff,
  students, parents and community
• Develop capacity and resources for teachers to
  employ alternative teaching strategies

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Project Strategies

• Develop metacognition of learning styles in
  teachers and students
• Research and develop ways of increasing self
  awareness and self esteem
• Increase student self advocacy with respect to
  learning needs
• Improve numeracy and literacy skills

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Project Strategies

• Provide alternatives for students inside and
  outside of the classroom
• constructivist approach
• project inquiry based learning
• collaborative learning
• differing options to complete courses
• increase types of extracurricular activities

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Project Strategies

• Work to provide increased flexibility and
  understanding of student differences including
  career explorations/transitions

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Innovations

• Focus on building relationships among teachers,
  students, parents and caring adults in the
  building
• Focus on improving school climate
• Increase repertoire of teaching strategies
  (focused on the secondary level)
• Provide alternate forms of program delivery (eg.
  Video conferencing)

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Parental Involvement

• Keep parents informed of the school initiatives
• Increase online, written and/or oral
  communication with parents
• Develop two way communication plans to not only
  provide information, but also seek input from
  parents
• Use focus groups to find out from families how
  they feel about activities that are in progress
  and areas of need
• Encourage participating parents to invite other
  parents to become more involved with the school
• Share research with parents

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