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Addressing Student Diversity in Year One

This study used a qualitative methodology to understand how a school and Year One classroom addressed students' diverse learning needs. Data was collected through observations of classroom practices and interviews with a senior principal and Year One teacher. The researcher took notes during observations and interviews, which were then analyzed by identifying themes and comparing responses to understand the school's policies and teacher's strategies for diversity.

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Addressing Student Diversity in Year One

This study used a qualitative methodology to understand how a school and Year One classroom addressed students' diverse learning needs. Data was collected through observations of classroom practices and interviews with a senior principal and Year One teacher. The researcher took notes during observations and interviews, which were then analyzed by identifying themes and comparing responses to understand the school's policies and teacher's strategies for diversity.

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METHODOLOGY

This study adopted a qualitative method which enabled the researcher to gain an insider’s view of the

field through close association with both participants and activities within the setting (Burns, 1994). The

data in this study was collected through two structured interviews and observations of classroom

practices and students. Observations took place in the school, with a particular focus on a Year One

classroom. The researcher took notes on the important information related to students’ diverse learning

progress and how this diversity had been addressed in the school and the Year One classroom.

Observations of the classroom practices and students allowed the collection of broad information on

students’ diversity. Observations were the first step of the data collection and helped to conceptualise

the interview questions for a more in-depth investigation. The interviewees involved a senior principal

of the student diversity system and a Year One classroom teacher. Interviews were conducted through

everyday conversation between the researcher and the interviewees. The researcher then made notes

after the conversation. Interviews collected supplementary and explanatory information which
permitted a deep understanding on how the school and the Year One classroom teacher addressed

students’ diverse learning progress.

Data analysis is “the process of systematically searching and arranging the interview transcripts, field

notes, and other materials that you accumulate to increase your understanding of them [the

participants] and to enable you to present what you have discovered to others” (Bogdan & Biklen, 1992,

p. 153). The data analysis in this study employed a qualitative approach which included the procedure of

identifying patterns, labelling themes, and developing category systems. The data analysis also involve
comparing and contrasting the responses to the interviews and the information collected from

observations. The interview transcripts of individual interviewees were interpretively analysed to

identify interviewees’ views and explanations regarding the school policy and the teacher’s strategies.

To minimize the invalidity of this research, the researcher provided the participants with transcripts of

their interview so that they could check them for accuracy. The analysis also included continual

revisiting of the data, particularly in the context of reviewed literature.


FINDINGS AND PRESENTATION

This section provides the school policies on addressing students’ diversity and some strategies in dealing

with students’ diverse learning progress used by the Year One classroom teacher.

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