Teacher Responsibilities for teaching diverse learners

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Teacher Responsibilities for
teaching diverse learners

• Maintain good order and discipline in the
  classroom and school at all times.
• Provide and optimum learning atmosphere with
  learning goals that are both challenging and
  attainable. Help students get ready to learn.
• Continuously strive to improve teaching
  performance and use assessment results not only
  to evaluate students, but also to find out
  whether teacher methods are working.

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• Let parents know that homework is important and
  give them tips on how to monitor homework
  assignments.
• Check students understanding of
• material presented .
• Pay attention to student interests, problems and
  accomplishment in social interaction.
• Communicate positively and frequently with
  students and parents by phone or short notes
  about students progress in school including
  academic achievement, social behavior and attitude

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• Expand expectations of students from
  non-English-speaking backgrounds and develop a
  commitment to provide effective instruction
  appropriate to the background of these students.
• Work to increase the participation of
• females and minorities in elementary and
  secondary curriculum and in courses related to
  occupations in which they are underrepresented.
• Teach students about stereotypes and prejudice
  and how to recognize the bias that may exist in
  materials they use in school or for research.

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• Compensate for or supplement biased materials in
  the classroom.
• Serve on textbook adoption committees
• or find other ways to influence the
• selection on nonbiased curriculum materials.
• Make sure that all visuals in the classroom
  reflect human diversity.
• Do not segregate students by gender or race in
  study groups, curricular groups, or activities.
• Use nonbiased language

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• Attempt to use role models of both sexes and of
  different ethnicities when inviting resource
  people into the classroom.
• Take advantage of opportunities to be trained in
  recognizing and dealing with bias.

Source Northwest Regional Educational
Laboratory, Center for National Origin, Race, and
Sex Equity. The fourth r Responsibility.
Portland, OR Zauthor, pp 11-12.