DIVERSITY AND DISCOVERY IN THE
CLASSROOM:
LEARNING ABILITIES AND
DISABILITIES
FATHER JUDGE HIGH SCHOOL,
PHILADELPHIA, 4 FEBRUARY 1998
(available
at
http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/local/Diversdiscov/)
PARTICIPANTS:
- Kimberly Cassidy, Department of Psychology, Bryn Mawr College
- 610 527-5490, kcassidy@brynmawr.edu
- Alison Cook-Sather,
Education Program, Bryn Mawr and Haverford
Colleges
- 610
526-5396, acooksat@haverford.edu
- Paul Grobstein, Department of
Biology, Bryn Mawr College
- 610 526-5098, pgrobste@brynmawr.edu
- Father Judge High School faculty and administration
- Serendip
(http://serendip.brynmawr.edu)
- OBJECTIVES:
-
- To share
experiences, perspectives, ideas, and expertise on
the challenges and
opportunities of diversity in high school
classrooms, and to facilitate
continuing exploration and
discussion of how best to meet the challenges
and take advantage
of the opportunities.
-
- OVERVIEW:
- STARTING
WHERE ONE IS: From
the pedagogical perspective, ACS invites thinking,
writing, and
talking about teachers' experiences with classrooms and
teaching
to get a sense of context, population diversity, assumptions,
expectations.
- INSIGHTS
FROM THE
BRAIN: From the neurobiological perspective, PG on brains,
how
they work and learn, differences between them, and how these
differences create both challenges and opportunities in the
classroom
- THE EXTREMES OF DIVERSITY: From the
psychology perspective, KC
will address some of the more extreme
differences students have,
how to recognize such differences, some causes
of them, and some
ways of dealing with them.
- PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER: Drawing
on each of
these perspectives, as well as ideas teachers have
brought and have
developed throughout the day and some further
materials, joint development
of a set of strategies and approaches
for dealing with and making use of
classroom diversity.
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