Diversity and Discovery in the Classroom

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Remote Ready Biology Learning Activities

Remote Ready Biology Learning Activities has 50 remote-ready activities, which work for either your classroom or remote teaching.

FATHER JUDGE HIGH SCHOOL, PHILADELPHIA, 4 FEBRUARY 1998

(available at http://serendipstudio.org/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://serendipstudio.org)

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.

BEYOND TODAY:

Serendip
Serendip Forums
Bryn Mawr Summer Institutes
buiLD - "Base for Unifying Information on Learning Differences", information and resources in the Delaware Valley and vicinity (http://www.ldinfo.org/)
Learning Disabilities, from the National Institutes of Mental Health
Attention Deficit Hperactivity Disorder, from the National Institutes of Mental Health
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