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preservice and inservice diversity courses  

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  • The curriculum of teacher education programs includes all that preservice and inservice teachers have the opportunity to learn and experience. Diversity courses endeavor to prepare teachers to meet the complex and multifaceted needs of PreK–12 students, and are designed to provide a repertoire of knowledge, skills, dispositions, attitudes, and practices necessary to address students' learning, academic, and social needs. [Source: Encyclopedia of Diversity in Education; Preservice and Inservice Diversity Courses]

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