There was a lot of diversity in my service-learning placement. I was in a school where it was a lower income area, and there was a lot of different ethnic diversity in the school. There was a student who was from Iraq and he doesn't speak very well English. He is still learning and trying to get to know the language. His first language was Arabic. He would act out a lot in class and would be loud, or not follow directions or instructions. The teacher wasn't really quite sure why we was doing this. She finally traced it back to English not being his first language. He wasn't quite understanding everything and he wasn't following directions or anything because he didn't know he was doing something that he wasn't supposed to be doing. He didn't understand so he was doing these things. So she started working one on one with him a lot more. She would help him and explain different things to him so that he could better understand.
The teacher does a lot of things to differentiate learning styles for the students. She will do visuals, kinesthetic, and auditory. She also does a lot of different motions sort of like sign language. When she is teaching them science she does a lot of different motions for the different types of animals, or for different big words to remember. For cold-blooded animals the motion is the kids rub their arms like they are really cold. She has a lot of different ways to help the students with different learning styles.
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