Title: Describe the ways that diversity can influence learning.
Course: Virginia Teachers for Tomorrow I (19151-I) > Section: Building a Foundation for Teaching

Description should include the following and the way they influence learning:

- Language
- Culture
- Socioeconomic status, including the effects of poverty
- Educational background
- Gender
- Sexual orientation
- Ethnicity
- Religion
- Exceptionalities

Teacher Resources:

- Culturally Relevant Pedagogy: Asking a Different Question by Gloria Ladson-Billings (https://books.google.com/books/about/Culturally_Relevant_Pedagogy.html?id=8kxwzgEACAAJ)
- Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain by Zaretta Hammond (https://www.google.com/books/edition/Culturally_Responsive_Teaching_and_The_B/BxGoBQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0)
- Holler if You Hear Me by Greg Michie (https://www.hepg.org/her-home/issues/harvard-educational-review-volume-72-issue-1/herbooknote/holler-if-you-hear-me_74)
- Reading, Writing, and Racism by Bree Picower (https://books.google.com/books/about/Reading_Writing_and_Racism.html?id=3RHfDwAAQBAJ)
- Start Where You Are, But Don’t Stay There by H. Richard Milner IV (https://www.hepg.org/hep-home/books/start-where-you-are,-but-don%E2%80%99t-stay-there)

Process/Skill Questions:

Thinking

- How can acknowledgement of diversity influence the learning environment?
- What role does diversity have in teaching and learning?

Communication

- Who can explain diversity to aspiring educators?
- How can teachers model diversity awareness to students?

Leadership

- Why should educators consider the diverse perspectives of learners?
- What strategies can be used in the classroom to recognize diversity?

Management

- How can educators promote cultural awareness?
- What are the consequences of a classroom environment that doesn’t recognize diversity’s influence on learning?