This document discusses the importance of Standard 4.3, which focuses on using digital tools to enhance cultural understanding and global awareness. The author provides two artifacts - a blog post and ELL report - that detail ways educators can use digital tools to further these goals. The blog post discusses resources like student blogs that expose students to other cultures. The ELL report details using digital tools to differentiate instruction for English language learners. The author reflects on learning about additional resources for diversity and differentiating instruction for ELL students, and wants to better share these resources with other teachers.
This document discusses the importance of Standard 4.3, which focuses on using digital tools to enhance cultural understanding and global awareness. The author provides two artifacts - a blog post and ELL report - that detail ways educators can use digital tools to further these goals. The blog post discusses resources like student blogs that expose students to other cultures. The ELL report details using digital tools to differentiate instruction for English language learners. The author reflects on learning about additional resources for diversity and differentiating instruction for ELL students, and wants to better share these resources with other teachers.
This document discusses the importance of Standard 4.3, which focuses on using digital tools to enhance cultural understanding and global awareness. The author provides two artifacts - a blog post and ELL report - that detail ways educators can use digital tools to further these goals. The blog post discusses resources like student blogs that expose students to other cultures. The ELL report details using digital tools to differentiate instruction for English language learners. The author reflects on learning about additional resources for diversity and differentiating instruction for ELL students, and wants to better share these resources with other teachers.
This document discusses the importance of Standard 4.3, which focuses on using digital tools to enhance cultural understanding and global awareness. The author provides two artifacts - a blog post and ELL report - that detail ways educators can use digital tools to further these goals. The blog post discusses resources like student blogs that expose students to other cultures. The ELL report details using digital tools to differentiate instruction for English language learners. The author reflects on learning about additional resources for diversity and differentiating instruction for ELL students, and wants to better share these resources with other teachers.
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Standard 4.
3: Diversity & Global Awareness
Standard 4.3 focuses on the importance of educators modeling and facilitating the use of digital tools and resources to enhance cultural understanding and increase global awareness. I have chosen 2 artifacts to support my mastery of this standard. The Diversity Blog post from my Internet Tools class and my English Language Learners (ELL) report. In both of these artifacts, I detail the ways that educators can model and facilitate the use of digital tools to enhance cultural understanding. In the blog post, I give specific resources that educators can use, which I have also used in my classroom, to enhance global awareness. For example, I have had my students visit the blogs of American students studying overseas to expose them to the experiences of those students. This helps enhance their global awareness and acquisition of cultural understanding. I also discuss the REACH conference and workshops I have attended which also have an emphasis is on helping educationally or culturally diverse students be comfortable and academically successful in the classroom. I also discuss being a model for tolerance for my students. There's not as much focus on educating students who are not exposed to cultures outside of their own to find tolerance and acceptance. The ELL report details the experience I have had with limited language learners and how I have used digital tools to enhance their learning experiences and to address diverse needs of students. Both of these artifacts were solely created by me and I am responsible for them in their entirety. From this artifact I learned that there are many resources that general education teachers are not aware of for ESOL students. Recently, I earned my ESOL endorsement and I have found that digital tools and resources are really advancing the differentiation possibilities for ESOL students. I also was able to find more resources for diversity and extending cultural education. If I could do anything different about this artifact, I would do a better job of sharing these diversity resources with my faculty. Although I did write the blog article, I can do a better job of sharing to promote higher usage of these digital tools and facilitate their usage. School improvement can be judged based on how well the teachers assist in the needs of our students. By making others aware of the ease of researching ideas and technologies that can be used by our students with disabilities, as well as our English language learners, I was able to improve the overall diversity acceptance of the school. One of the challenges in any school improvement plan is to be able to positively affect the success and performance of our subgroups, minorities and ESOL students are two of those subgroups. By doing a better job providing culturally diverse experiences and lessons we help those students to better link new knowledge to prior experiences. These practices can be assessed by the ACCESS test annually with our ELL students and by looking at testing data for our subgroups.