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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"Culturally and linguistically diverse students"”.
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Addressing idiom avoidance in culturally and linguistically diverse students through biography-driven instruction
… on the linguistic phenomenon of idiom avoidance and a discretionary strategy of idiom use employed by Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CLD) students. The review of the literature on linguistic avoidance behavior revealed that this topic was not widely researched. Less so were the …
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Narrowing the Opportunity Gap: Developing Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students
<p>As per Breeze and Laborda (2016), a culturally responsive curriculum addresses the integration of students into a new culture, as bilingual education traditionally receives minimal interest from the authorities. Akkari and Loomis (1998) explain that bilingual education is socially and …
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Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students' Standardized English Literacy Achievement and Language Redesignation Status: A Multiple Regression Analysis
… legislation stated that by 2014 <em>all</em> students would reach proficiency in all subjects. However, this has not been the case as NCLB has had mixed effects for culturally and linguistically diverse students (CLDs) (Hopkins, Thompson, Linquanti, Hakuta, & August, 2013). Language …
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Special education preservice teachers' changes in self-efficacy to serve culturally and linguistically diverse students while completing their first field experience
… Texas completed a modified version of the Culturally Responsive Teaching Self-Efficacy scale (Siwatu, 2007) before and after they had completed their first field experiences. The researcher who conducted this dissertation sought to find whether the respondents had experienced any changes in …
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Making the Significant Significant: A Discourse Analysis Examining the Teacher's Role in Negotiating Meaning of Text with Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students
… language used to negotiate meaning of text with linguistically and culturally diverse students. Specifically, I use Gee`s (2005) discourse analysis methodology to examine the teacher`s language-in-use for seven building tasks of language--significance, activities, identities, relationships, …
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Examining the Role of Meaning-Making and Cultural Competence in How Teachers Understand and Approach their Work with Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students
… transforming into a mosaic of colors, languages, and backgrounds. As the population of culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) students continues to rise, a deeper understanding of how teachers construct meaning and understand their internal and relational experiences when working with these …
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An LRE Placement Loophole: A Critical Policy Analysis of LRE Placement in Defining Disproportionality of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students in Special Education
… practices, underestimating the monitoring and reporting criteria, and overlooking non-dominant cultural and linguistic groups within the Colorado community. In this critical policy analysis, I used quantitative methods to analyze and explore the difference between the odds ratio calculation …
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Empowering Equity in Postsecondary Transition for Marginalized Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students with Disabilities by Implementing a Culturally Responsive Summary of Performance Teacher Training and Support Program
<p>Marginalized culturally and linguistically diverse students with special needs often struggle after high school. Many special educators are unaware of legal mandates and best practice in postsecondary transition, especially the intricate needs when working this group. The culturally responsive …
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Centering Culture and Relationships in Learning: Culturally Responsive Teaching in Higher Education
<p>In colleges and universities all across the United States, the amount of culturally and linguistically diverse students has increased significantly. Research has shown that when educators can develop educational practices and curricula that account for and incorporate students’ cultural …
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Self Portraits: How The Arts May Be the Key to Equitable And Authentic Engagement For Culturally And Linguistically Diverse Student Populations
<p>As the linguistic and cultural diversity across America’s classrooms steadily increases, educators are searching for ways to meet the needs of their students. The linguistic and cultural resources our students bring are a tremendous asset, yet our country has not been able to fully realize the …
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Ethnographic Narrative: Nereida Montes
… my experience as a Mexica-America student, and my decision to become a History-Social Science educator. Throughout this narrative, I explored the competencies of becoming a warm-demander and an effective educator for culturally and linguistically diverse students. I interviewed 3 students of …
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Supporting Emerging Multilingual Newcomer Students and their Teachers in California Public High Schools
… emerging multilingual <em>newcomer </em>students and their teachers. The study examines research regarding deficit mindset that has led to student labels that perpetuate negative school and teacher views of culturally and linguistically diverse students. Additional research used for this …
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Cultivating Culturally Responsive Elementary Teachers in a Suburban Title I School
<p>Research suggests increased enrollment of students with diverse cultural, racial, linguistic, and social backgrounds will continue in schools across the United States over the coming years; thereby, imposing a challenge for some teachers with differing backgrounds to instruct culturally and …
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Professional Development and the Impact on Teacher Growth and Development
… development has helped them meet the needs of culturally and linguistically diverse students. This study included a series of in-depth interviews with three teacher leaders. The goal was to obtain consent from them to participate in this study at their school. With a qualitative approach, this …
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No such thing as neutral: An exploration of antiracist teacher preparation
… in the United States have become increasingly diverse, teacher education programs have worked to prepare educators to effectively teach culturally and linguistically diverse students. Scholarship on multicultural education emerged in the 1980s, followed by culturally responsive and culturally …
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School Counseling for the Achievement Gap: Attitudes and Beliefs of School Counseling Graduate Students About Culturally Responsive School Counseling
… to mitigate gaps in opportunity, achievement, and attainment for culturally and linguistically diverse students. However, culturally responsive school counseling is a relatively new field and many practicing school counselors lack requisite knowledge and skills. This heuristic, critical …
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Examination of dispositions and practices in diversity: the impact of a teacher education course promoting culturally and responsive pedagogy
<p>Assimilation ideology guiding teachers and policy makers to mainstream immigrant children into the American schools has prevailed in spite of pluralists' efforts for reform schools to provide more opportunities for culturally and linguistically diverse students. Research shows a need to change …
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Transformational Practices in a Culture of Change: Advocating for Culturally Adaptive Practices in Educator Credential Requirements Policy
… requirements policy to reflect the needs of culturally and linguistically diverse students with accountability measures to provide state legislators and governing education agencies with a data-informed implementation and assessment plan. The recommended policy change describes the rationale …
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A Meta-Analysis of Research-Based Reading Interventions with English Language Learners
… is a proactive process of early interventions and evidence-based instruction for all students. RTI has additional intensive and individualized interventions to prevent student underachievement, including students at risk for academic failure and culturally and linguistically diverse students …
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Transformation in Language and Literacy: A Collaborative Approach
… United States today, there is an increasingly diverse student population in terms of language and cultural diversity as well as a mismatch between teachers' cultural and linguistic backgrounds and that of an increasingly diverse student population. Of this group of culturally and linguistically …
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