Meeting the Needs of Diverse Learners

This course utilizes current research and established pedagogical techniques to help participants meet the needs of their diverse learners in reading, writing, and talking across the curriculum. These diverse learners include students with autism, students with ADHD and hyperactivity, English Language Learners, and gifted students. Participants develop a framework to better meet the needs of all diverse learners while taking a deeper look into one or more of these specific classifications through direct instruction, guided research, classroom try outs and independent research.
This course incorporates PLN’s frameworks- The Five Reading, Writing and Talking Processes and The Four Lenses of Learning which model best classroom practices including:
● an in-depth exploration connected to the content of the selected text,
● a variety of ways to approach book talks that encourage rich, meaningful discussions and
● strategies for accessing text content as participants try out these approaches with their students.
The course text is selected in collaboration with schools and districts.
Participants purchase their course text and PLN provides The Plainer Truths of Teaching, Learning and Literacy, by Dr. Morton Botel and Lara Paparo (2016) as a mentor text or participants are asked to bring their own copy of The Plainer Truths from a former PLN course.