Imagine yourself as an educational consultant. One of your clients is a school district that wants you to prepare a presentation on addressing the needs of diverse learners using evidence-based practices. Taking the role of an educational consultant and in light of your learning this far, draft a comprehensive position paper for your school district on how evidence-based practice can enhance learning and teaching practice in an effort to address the needs of all learners. Using relevant evidence to support your claims, discuss the role of the following in effective professional practice:
Understanding and engaging diverse learners Knowing how students learn including implications of learning theories on practice
Using evidence-based practices that are appropriate for individual learners Conclusions and recommendations Prepare a PowerPoint presentation that captures the big ideas from your paper. You will use the presentation to present to the school district highlighting the importance of understanding factors that influence learning, learning theories and how they inform practice and evidence-based practices that are appropriate for the learner(s). In the presentation, include recommendations on how the district can empower professional practitioners to enhance learning and improve teaching.
Final Paper (1,500 words):
Describe the social and cultural context of the school district to which you are presenting. Explain at least three populations of learners with varying abilities (these areas can be the same ones you focused on throughout the module). Analyse how evidence-based practices can enhance learning and teaching practices in an effort to address the needs of all learners in the school district. In your analysis, explain how the understanding and engagement of diverse learners as individuals plays a role in enhancing learning and teaching practices. Analyse how knowing how students learn as individuals enhances learning and can improve teaching practices. Include the implications of learning theories on those practices. Explain how using evidence-based practices that are appropriate for individual learners enhances learning and can improve teaching practices. Based on your analyses and explanations (and all work/research in previous Individual Assignments), provide your conclusions and recommendations for the school district. Final Presentation (500 words): Create a PowerPoint presentation highlighting the big ideas from your paper. The presentation should highlight the importance of understanding factors that influence learning, learning theories and how they inform practice and evidence-based practices that are appropriate for the learner(s). Include recommendations on how the district can enable practitioners to enhance learning and improve teaching.
