Managing Diversity in the Classroom
Managing Diversity in the Classroom
Introduction
In a regular classroom, there is a wide range of diversity of students. They are different in gender, culture, social class and learning ability. Some students may have learning difficulty or disability. When they receive education in school, it is necessary to adopt special education strategies. In this essay, I am going to suggest some educational skills and strategies for managing and teaching students with dyslexia in Mathematics lessons.
Dyslexia
Dyslexia is a common type of specific learning difficulty. For Chinese speakers in Hong Kong, there is around 10% of the population who has dyslexia. Students with dyslexia may have disorders in language, memory or thinking. They may be intelligent and do well in other areas but have difficulties in reading, spelling or writing abilities. Those students may have learning problems in identifying words, understanding directions, presenting work, managing themselves, and reading passages. Dyslexic students have different levels of difficulties in different stages. For example, when they are in primary schools, they may have difficulties in identifying words or characters in similar shape. While in secondary schools, they may have difficulties in reading comprehension. Because of their learning difficulty, they would easily be frustrated and feel anxious if they cannot meet their or their parents’ expectations. As a result, they tend to have low self-esteem which creates other emotional problems.
Classroom Accommodation
There are various ways to help students with dyslexia in their leaning. In this part, I am going to suggest some of the ways that can be used to manage and teach them in classroom.
One of the weaknesses of students with dyslexia is processing information slowly. Therefore, they are usually frustrated in lessons as they find difficulty in keeping pace with the lesson. In order to help them, it is necessary to develop a routine which can help them to
Introduction
In a regular classroom, there is a wide range of diversity of students. They are different in gender, culture, social class and learning ability. Some students may have learning difficulty or disability. When they receive education in school, it is necessary to adopt special education strategies. In this essay, I am going to suggest some educational skills and strategies for managing and teaching students with dyslexia in Mathematics lessons.
Dyslexia
Dyslexia is a common type of specific learning difficulty. For Chinese speakers in Hong Kong, there is around 10% of the population who has dyslexia. Students with dyslexia may have disorders in language, memory or thinking. They may be intelligent and do well in other areas but have difficulties in reading, spelling or writing abilities. Those students may have learning problems in identifying words, understanding directions, presenting work, managing themselves, and reading passages. Dyslexic students have different levels of difficulties in different stages. For example, when they are in primary schools, they may have difficulties in identifying words or characters in similar shape. While in secondary schools, they may have difficulties in reading comprehension. Because of their learning difficulty, they would easily be frustrated and feel anxious if they cannot meet their or their parents’ expectations. As a result, they tend to have low self-esteem which creates other emotional problems.
Classroom Accommodation
There are various ways to help students with dyslexia in their leaning. In this part, I am going to suggest some of the ways that can be used to manage and teach them in classroom.
One of the weaknesses of students with dyslexia is processing information slowly. Therefore, they are usually frustrated in lessons as they find difficulty in keeping pace with the lesson. In order to help them, it is necessary to develop a routine which can help them to