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Teacher candidates
need to be prepared to teach students from diverse
backgrounds and with exceptionalities to ensure that all
students have the opportunity to learn.
Looking at the demographics of American schools it is
clear that students today come from increasingly diverse
backgrounds. Many children come from families with
diverse religious backgrounds or in which the spoken
language is not English. Growing numbers of students are
identified as having special needs. At the same time,
there is a diminishing number of minority teachers in
schools. Thus teacher candidates must develop knowledge
of diversity in the U.S. and in the world, dispositions
that respect and value differences, and skills for
teaching diverse students.
Field placements are a key element in this learning
process. Your placements will enable you to observe at
first-hand the diversity in the schools in our
Partnership. You will observe how teachers work with
diverse students, including limited-English-speaking
students and students with special needs. It is
important for you to consciously observe these
differences among students and the strategies and skills
teachers need to have to meet the needs of these
learners. This Field Experience Log is an important
component of this process. By keeping this list of
observations and reviewing it periodically with your
instructors you will be able to plan your observations
to include the various diversities in the schools.
DIVERSITIES
NOTED - In the DPI document “Standards for Teachers of
Diverse Students,” diversity includes exceptionalities,
race, ethnicity, religious backgrounds, gender, language
(linguistic differences) socio-economic levels, and any
of the other ways in which our society defines human
differences.
For our
purposes, note the makeup of each class you observe.
Briefly describe the class to the best of your ability.
Include any of the following: ethnicity, race,
socio-economic level, gender, limited English, gifted,
resource, mainstream/inclusion, self-contained, reading
recovery, physical disability (mobility, hearing,
vision, speech, etc.), other. Include a separate
description for each class you observe.
Please list
the following:
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Date
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Course
Number or Experience (i.e. service
learning, tutoring, work in the
schools)
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School
or Educational Setting
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Grade
Level
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Hours
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Type of
Participation and Description
(i.e. observation, interview,
tutor, teach, substitution)
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Type of
Diversity Observed (i.e. race,
language,
socioeconomic,
gender, special
needs) and Description of
diversities represented in the
class.
PLEASE DO NOT
USE STUDENT NAMES.
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Date |
Course Number or
Experience |
School
or Educational Setting |
Grade Level |
Hours |
Type of Participation |
Type of Diversity
Observed |
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12/31/2007 |
EDUC310 |
Brush Creek Elementary
School |
5 |
1 |
Observation
Description:
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Gender
Description: |
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01/04/2008 |
EDUC314 |
Asheville Middle
School |
7 |
2 |
Tutoring
Description: Two (2) hours tutoring math. |
Socioeconomic
Description: |
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02/14/2008 |
EDUC380 |
Erwin High School |
10, 11, 12 |
3 |
Observation
Description:
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Special Needs
Description: |
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02/15/2008 |
EDUC396 |
North Buncombe High
School |
11 |
3 |
Substitution
Description: Three
(2) periods substitution ESL class. |
Language
Description: |
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03/15/2008 |
EDUC396 |
Madison High
School |
12 |
16 |
Service learning
Description: Eight
(2) hour sessions. |
Socioeconomic, gender,
special needs
Description: |
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At the
end of Student Teaching and when you
have completed the Preservice Teacher Diverse Field
Experiences Log and verified this with your
University Supervisor, then please click the
following link to go to the Summary Diverse Field
Experiences form to enter summary data.
This form is
to be completed only one time. (Expect 20 minutes
to complete the Summary Diverse Field Experiences
form.)
Summary Diverse Field Experiences form
http://www.unca.edu/education/educ311/data_capture/summary_dfe_form.htm |
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Pass
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_________________________________ |
_________________________________ |
Student Teacher (Please
Print)
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Student Teacher
E-mail (Please
Print)
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_________________________________ |
_________________________________ |
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Assessment Signature |
Assessment Date |
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Diverse
Field Experiences Plan of
Action
(Contains
details of experiences not
met and agreed plan of
action. To be reassessed
after completion of
remediation.)
Continued
on back of form if checked
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Student Teacher
(Signature
for Plan of Action)
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Capstone Course Instructor Signature |
Plan of Action Date |
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