About: Working with a Diverse Student Population: The Mission is Not to Save, but to Reflectively Teach

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Name:	Working with a Diverse Student Population: The Mission is Not to Save, but to Reflectively Teach
ID:	m14073
Language:	English (en)
Summary:	When teachers view their mission as one to “save” children, the possibility then exists that they might not “save” them all. In fact, it is not uncommon that a teacher utters the words, “I can’t save them all.” The mission, however, of the teacher is not to “save.” Rather, the mission of a teacher is to reflectively teach and to continuously seek ways to facilitate meaningful learning. In that light, this article examines the notion of what it means to reflectively teach, particularly as it relates to working with a diverse student population relative to different attention spans and capabilities of staying on task.
Subject:	Social Sciences
Keywords:	at risk students, diverse students, teaching
Document Type:	-//CNX//DTD CNXML 0.5 plus MathML//EN
License:	Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY 2.0

Authors:	James Kirylo (jkirylo@selu.edu)
Copyright Holders:	James Kirylo (jkirylo@selu.edu)
Maintainers:	National Council of Professors of Educational Administration (tcreigh@vt.edu), James Kirylo (jkirylo@selu.edu)

Latest version:	1.1 (history)
First publication date:	Oct 17, 2006 10:46 am GMT-5
Last revision to module:	Oct 23, 2006 10:19 am GMT-5

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Version:	1.1 Oct 23, 2006 10:19 am GMT-5 by National Council of Professors of Educational Administration
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