Valuing Student Differences

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Valuing Student Differences

• Chapter 10
• McKeachie, 2002

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Traditional College Student?

• Students older than 22
• Women
• Minority Enrollment

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Recruitment Retention

• Students need to
• Feel welcome
• Feel they are being treated as individuals
• Feel they can participate fully
• Be treated fairly

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Feeling Welcome

• Classroom Environment
• Overt covert cues
• Slang
• Terminology
• Acknowledge
• Different perspectives
• Technology

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Welcoming Curriculum

• Ethnicity
• Example Indians in history
• Sexuality
• Social Group
• Example extreme piercing tattoos
• Gender

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Welcoming

• Display authentic concern
• Attend to terminology preferences (within reason)
• State diversity is valued (and mean it)
• Personalize classroom interactions
• Enrich content with different perspectives

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Individual Treatment

• Stereotyping
• Within-group differences
• Hispanic, Mexican, Puerto Rican, Latino
• Asian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Taiwanese
• Tokenism
• Mentoring relationships
• International Student Associations

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Full Participation in Learning

• Classroom Gap
• Worldview (perspective)
• Dominant classroom culture vs. culture of other
  students
• Nursing vs. academia
• Learning Styles
• Culture Gender

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Barriers to Overcome

• Physical Learning Disabilities
• Age Differences
• Increasing opportunities for full participation
• Awareness
• Vary teaching styles
• Evaluate from multiple perspectives

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Increasing Motivation

• Establishing inclusion
• Developing attitude
• Enhancing meaning
• Engendering competence

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Being Treated Fairly

• Individual students
• Individual conversations
• Clear expectations
• Socialization of culture
• Too quiet or too demonstrative
• Order routine WITH variation of perspective

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Conclusion

• Welcome students
• Treat them as individuals
• Encourage full participation by all
• Treat all students fairly

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