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**__Instructional Issues for Diverse Learners Using the Identified Differentiated Instruction Trends__**

**__Oral Reports:__** Oral reports build valuable skills that students will use throughout their education and in their careers. The skills that they are building on are their oral language skills, presentation skills, self-confidence in front of an audience, and interaction with the audience. These items can be very difficult for students that speak English as their second language, shyness due to cultural influences, or language barriers between the student and the audience. This can cause tremendous amount of stress for these students. To decrease this stress the students can be paired up with a higher level English Language Learner student to help with any language barrier confusion that arises. Also by allowing the student to work with someone else and keeping them out of the direct spotlight by themselves. This will help build the diverse students skills.

**__Hands-on Activities:__** Hands-on activities are beneficial for all types of learners, whether they have special needs, a disability, or are English Language Learners.. It doesn't matter what type of learner they are, the right thought out hands-on activity will keep the students engaged and learning. Now these types of activities may need special one-on-one assistance which could be provided by the teacher, an aide, or another higher level student.

__**Inquiry Based Learning:**__ Inquiry based learning is a strategy that is used in the classroom to get the students more involved and interested in their learning. This type of strategy encourages students to use their critical thinking skills to learn the information being taught. This strategy can be difficult for diverse students because of their own cultural influences and differences. Inquiry-based learning pulls from the information that they already know from their surroundings and teaches them to ask questions so they can learn about the world they live in.

__**Small Group Collaboration:**__ Collaboration is a current trend that is being used in the classroom to teach students how to work well with a team and be respectful of each other. These are lifelong skills that the students are building and will be able to use in their future education and careers. This type of differentiated instruction requires students to work together as a team which can be difficult for some students. Some students can be overly aggressive and want to take control of the team. This can cause some students to feel uncomfortable and timid, especially students of other cultures where they are not taught to be assertive, shy students, or students with learning disabilities. Collaboration is a great strategy to be used in the classroom but will need to be monitored to ensure students are working as a team and not being too aggressive or unruly to the other diverse students.


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