Marjorie Hall Haley, PhD - GMU1 Valuing Diverse Students

Marjorie Hall Haley, PhD - GMU2 Teaching Foreign Languages Video Library This video library illustrates effective instruction and assessment strategies for teaching foreign languages There are 27 videos that may be viewed at

Marjorie Hall Haley, PhD - GMU3 Think/Pair/Share 1.What are your beliefs about diverse learners? 2.In what way(s) do the changing demographics impact classroom diversity? 3.How do you define diverse?

Marjorie Hall Haley, PhD - GMU4 Identification Students come from many racial/cultural/ethnic/SES/linguistic backgrounds “Exceptional” indicates abilities ranging from gifted to physical, emotional, or learning disabilities

Marjorie Hall Haley, PhD - GMU5 Pedagogical Implications Students having different proficiency/linguistic levels Students having different native/heritage languages Students with different academic levels

Marjorie Hall Haley, PhD - GMU6 Think/Pair/Share Think of nonverbal answering practices (body language) that are commonly used in classrooms and brainstorm with a partner to create a list like the following: pointing, hand raising, standing on line, etc.

Marjorie Hall Haley, PhD - GMU7 Think/Pair/Share What are some instructional strategies and assessment practices that work effectively with the wide variety of diverse learners?

Marjorie Hall Haley, PhD - GMU8 Learner Preferences What are some strategies to learn about students’ multiple intelligences and/or learning styles?

Marjorie Hall Haley, PhD - GMU9 Now think about…. 1.How these may be integrated into an early phase of a lesson. 2.Other ways students could use the list you generated to signal their comprehension.

Marjorie Hall Haley, PhD - GMU10 Other Important Pedagogical Implications Multiple Intelligences Learning Styles Learning Strategies

Marjorie Hall Haley, PhD - GMU11 Multiple Intelligences Verbal/Linguistic Logical/Mathematical Bodily/Kinesthetic Naturalist Visual/Spatial Musical/Rhythmic Interpersonal/Social Intrapersonal/Introspective

Marjorie Hall Haley, PhD - GMU12 Multiple Intelligences Bodily/Kinesthetic: Role playing; dancing; TPR, TPRS, hands-on learning Interpersonal/Soc: Cooperative teams, paired activities Intrapersonal: Independent study Log/Math: word order activities, pattern games, classifying and categorizing, cause and effect

Marjorie Hall Haley, PhD - GMU13 Multiple Intelligences Musical/Rhythmic: write jingles, jazz chants, musical cloze Naturalist: describe changes in local environment Verbal/Linguistic: debates, story telling, word games Visual/Spatial: drawing a response, video exercises, graphic organizers

Marjorie Hall Haley, PhD - GMU14 Learning Styles A learning style is a general approach a learner uses to learn a new language (Scarcella & Oxford, 1992).

Marjorie Hall Haley, PhD - GMU15 Learner Styles can be categorized into 3 areas: Global Analytic Integrated

Marjorie Hall Haley, PhD - GMU16 Learning Strategies Metacognitive: planning for learning, monitoring one’s own comprehension and production, and evaluating how well one has achieved a learning objective. Cognitive: manipulating the material to be learned mentally or physically

Marjorie Hall Haley, PhD - GMU17 Learning Strategies (cont’d) Social/Affective: either interacting with another person in order to assist learning, as in cooperative learning, and asking questions for clarification, or using affective control to assist learning tasks (Chamot & O’Malley, 1994).

Marjorie Hall Haley, PhD - GMU18 Ask Yourself These Questions 1.What do you believe are the advantages of teaching culturally, linguistically, and cognitively diverse students? 2.What experiences do you have with people whose cultural backgrounds are different from yours?

Marjorie Hall Haley, PhD - GMU19 Ask Yourself These Questions 3. How do you accommodate the special needs of heritage language learners?

Marjorie Hall Haley, PhD - GMU20 In the video you will see…. Ways to work with multilevel classes in the same room & at the same time (Shuffleton and Fu). How important grouping and cooperative learning are in working with diverse learners.

Marjorie Hall Haley, PhD - GMU21 In the video you will see…. Strategies to create a positive learning environment for HL and EL learners in the same class. How teachers help students to value the diversity of their classmates.

Marjorie Hall Haley, PhD - GMU22 Theory & Research Informing Practice Teaching practices must be underscored by theory and research. Evidence on this can be collected using teacher action research. TFL Library showcases practicing teachers demonstrating “theory to practice”

Marjorie Hall Haley, PhD - GMU23 TFL Video Library is a wonderful resource!! It’s free! It’s easily accessed It reaches many languages across all grade levels It’s useful for new and “not so new” teachers Did I mention it’s “FREE!”

Marjorie Hall Haley, PhD - GMU24 To Access the Library Go to