Effective teachers are responsible for meeting the educational needs of an increasingly diverse student population. How have your values, attitudes, and dispositions been enhanced or changed regarding equitability and the belief that all students can learn? Additionally, how has this impacted your students intellectual, social, engagement, motivation, and personal development?

There are two parts in the essay first is the teaching and diversity assessment

Diversity Major Assessment, you will provide a self-reflection of how you have professionally and personally grown in your MSED program in understanding and providing for diverse student populations and the impact you have had on your students academic success. Consider the knowledge, skills, and dispositions effective educators should exhibit in working with P-12 diverse student populations. Use your completed Teaching Log: Working With Students From Diverse Backgrounds to complete this Major Assessment.
Steps:
A. First, review your completed Teaching Log and look for specific examples of your work with the following student subgroups: males, females, students from low socioeconomic groups, students with disabilities/exceptionalities, English language learners, and students from ethnic/racial groups in P-12 settings.

B. Second, complete the electronic Walden Diversity Proficiency Self-Assessment. It is located in the Diversity Major Assessment area of your ePortfolio.

C. Third, based on your analysis of the Teaching Log: Working With Students From Diverse Backgrounds and the results of the Walden Diversity Proficiency Self-Assessment, respond to the following:
1. In thinking systematically about your practices related to diversity, what areas would you define as your strengths, and what areas would you define as needing improvement? Support your analysis with notes from the Teaching Log and the results of the Walden Diversity Proficiency Self-Assessment.

2. Effective teachers are responsible for meeting the educational needs of an increasingly diverse student population. How have your values, attitudes, and dispositions been enhanced or changed regarding equitability and the belief that all students can learn? Additionally, how has this impacted your students intellectual, social, engagement, motivation, and personal development? In your response, make connections between your professional practices and what you have learned in this program. Provide at least two specific examples.

3. What might you do to continue to grow and improve in reaching all students? In your answer, discuss at least three action items you will put into practice to ensure that all students receive equitable opportunities to achieve. Action items must be specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and timely. Then, describe how you will monitor your progress related to these action items. (See SMART Goals in Glossary.)

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