Unifying+Diverse+Backgrounds+For+Educational+Success

**//Overview//** Students come from very diverse backgrounds and into one unifying school with expectations of proper behavior and successful academic performance in school. However, if not properly managed, diverse backgrounds can often have an impact on educational success and impede the learning processes and goals for students.

**// Evaluating your school //** How does diversity impact the educational process within your setting? What are the needs specific to your school and community?

**//Unifying diverse backgrounds for educational success//**

- Consider the student you suspend, expel, or remove from the classroom. Is the breakdown of students you discipline comparable to the school population? - Provides consistent expectations for behavior by educating students on expected behaviors. - Promoting positive behaviors and showing students the connection between behavior and educational success. - []
 * Postive behavior support**

-** Helping students to make connections - Assessment practices - Are their biases in the way students are being assessed? - Curriculum Design - Allow students to examine conventional interpretations and introduce alternate ones - Instructional strategies (scaffolding, differentiated instruction, etc.) - Cooperative Learning **-** Providing students with meaningful tasks to discuss in smaller groups. - Students learning from one another (backgrounds, beliefs, feelings, perspectives, etc.) - Providing opportunities to shine among their classmates
 * Curriculum & Instruction

- Making global connections - 21st Century Skills - Prepares students for tomorrow's jobs - Access to make personal connections - Varied learning opportuinities - Bringing more racially and culturally diverse curriculum into the classroom
 * Utilizing Technology**

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