Guidelines and Rubric

Overview: It is important to discover best practices and strategies for the demographic group that you identified in the achievement gap. Once these strategies and best practices are implemented it is important to provide activities for a school and community to promote diversity. When collaboration between educators, a school, the community, and families is achieved, the achievement gap will lessen. This assignment will give you experience with researching instructional practices to meet the needs of the demographic group you chose, and experience in providing recommendations to a school and community to promote diversity.

Prompt: In Critical Task: Recommendations, you will make recommendations to various audiences for how they could contribute to closing the achievement gap for the specific demographic group.

Make recommendations explaining how a school could contribute to closing the achievement gap for students in the specific demographic group. Also make recommendations as to how communities can contribute to closing the achievement gap for students in the specific demographic group.

In Developmental Capture: Instructional Practices, you will explore your ideas about instructional practices to meet the needs of diverse student populations, inclusive curricula, and varied assessments to meet the needs of all students.

Address how you would you meet the needs of diverse student populations in your everyday teaching practices. How can curricula be developed to remain inclusive for diverse student populations?

This assignment will cover Critical Task: Section III, Parts A and B, and Developmental Capture: Section II, Parts A and B.

Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:

III. Recommendations:

A. Make recommendations for how a school could contribute to closing the achievement gap for students in the specific demographic group.

B. Make recommendations for how communities could contribute to closing the achievement gap for students in the specific demographic group.

II. Instructional Practices:

A. How would you meet the needs of diverse student populations in your everyday teaching practices? Be sure to provide specific examples in your response.

B. How can curricula be developed to remain inclusive for diverse student populations? Be sure to provide specific examples in your response.

Guidelines for Submission: Your paper must be submitted as a 2- to 3-page Microsoft Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, one-inch margins, and at least three sources cited in APA format.