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Teaching diverse learning styles requires a host of strategies. Learning styles and students and strategies create a host of teaching opportunities. As more students in education need differing approaches, teachers must diversify their lessons and activities.

Blog with general teaching tips, including how to use music in the classroom

Teachers who work with English language learners will find ESL/ESOL/ELL/EFL reading/writing skill-building children's books, stories, activities, ideas, strategies to help PreK-3 and 4-8 students learn to read. Información sobre la adquisición del inglés como segundo idioma. Para que padres, familias y maestros de niños latinos ayuden a sus hijos a leer, escribir y triunfar.

Various stategies to keep in mind when teaching music with special needs students

Adapted with permission from "The North Carolina Music Educator" Fall/Summer 2013 Music classes in today's educational system have changed substantially. With the implementation of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), educators are expected to see all students, with and without disabilities. Children previously not served by music educators are now being served.

Guidelines to help teach special needs students

6 tips for teaching a diverse classroom

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Tips for music educators, has links to every instrument with helpful videos and links to articles on things like effective classroom management

A PDF with all the information you need about music related activities in a special education classroom.

ISSUE: The diversity of students in today's classrooms underscores the importance of developing curricula, teaching strategies, and policies to help all students succeed in school. Efforts to welcome, understand, and affirm all students--and to treat their cultural and linguistic backgrounds as equally valid and important--should be reflected in every facet of the school environment.

12 key elements for teaching diverse learners

Founded in 1943, ASCD (formerly the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development) is an educational leadership organization dedicated to advancing best practices and policies for the success of each learner. Our 175,000 members in 119 countries are professional educators from all levels and subject areas--superintendents, supervisors, principals, teachers, professors of education, and school board members.

Founded in 1943, ASCD (formerly the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development) is an educational leadership organization dedicated to advancing best practices and policies for the success of each learner. Our 175,000 members in 119 countries are professional educators from all levels and subject areas--superintendents, supervisors, principals, teachers, professors of education, and school board members.