1. What challenges do you anticipate in meeting the needs of individual learners?
One challenge I anticipate in meeting the needs of individual learners is incorporating all my students into the curriculum. I am anticipating there being a huge variety of interests and advancements or areas of struggle that I am afraid I will focus on one need and leave another area lacking of my attention. I am afraid that there is only one of me and I wont be able to get to my students needs in a timely manner.
2. What is your plan for meeting individual student needs?
I have a couple of ideas that I think will get me in the right direction. The first idea for meeting individual student needs is to take the time in the beginning of the year (and throughout) to learn what interests my students. Once I figure that out, it will be easier for me to make my class content match what my students are into. The second idea I have is to almost rotate through different methods that meet my students needs. For example, if a few of my students need more visual instructions instead of auditory instructions I can provide a video or powerpoint on how to get the task at hand done.
3. What resources can you utilize to help meet the needs of diverse learners?
A big resource I believe I can use is my colleagues. They might have had this particular student or have had experiences with meeting the needs of diverse learners before. My colleagues might be able to give me new techniques or methods to present my class content in a way I didn't think about. They could also help me revise my lesson plans by giving me advice on how to tweek certain aspects to make my lessons different or accommodating to specific learners. I also think another huge resource for me to help meet the needs of diverse learners will be research. Constantly looking for new methods that will help me engage my students or to even see if someone else has had these challenges and how they handled it.
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