The Skillful Teacher

Teaching in Diverse Classrooms
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to be left alone to plan and conduct necessary learning; another is
field dependent, needing a lot of teacher direction and externally
imposed structure. Syllabus-bound and syllabus-free learners, con-
vergers and divergers, those who apply either deep or surface
approaches to learning—the list of learning styles and personality
orientations seems endless.
But variations in academic readiness, learning style, and per-
sonality orientations are only the beginning of diversity. Contem-
porary teachers now work in truly multicultural classrooms. Newly
arrived immigrant groups, communities of color that have been