Module 4 Individual Differences

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Student Diversity

• Module 4 Individual Differences

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Take the Challenge!

• In this module, challenge yourself to
• Identify the different factors that bring about
  diversity in the classroom.
• Demonstrate a positive attitude towards diversity
  as an enriching element in the learning
  environment.
• Come up with teaching strategies that consider
  student diversity.

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Everyone is unique.
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Advance Organizer
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Lets have an ACTIVITY!!! ?????
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Factors that Bring about Student Diversity
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Factors that Bring about Student Diversity

1. Socioeconomic Status
2. Thinking/Learning Style
3. Exceptionalities

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Socioeconomic Status

• The millionaires lifestyle differs from that of
  the middle income or lower income group.

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Thinking/Learning Style

• Some of you learn better by seeing something
  others by just listening and still others by
  manipulating something.

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Exceptionalities

• In class there maybe one who has difficulty in
  spoken language comprehension or in seeing,
  hearing, etc.

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How Student Diversity Enriches The Learning
Environment?

• Students self-awareness is enhanced by
  diversity.
• Student diversity contributes to cognitive
  development.
• The classroom is peculiarly the marketplace
  of ideas. William J. Brennan
• Student diversity prepares learners for their
  role as responsible members of society.
• The classroom can provide more than just theory
  given by the teacher in a lecture. With student
  diversity, the classroom becomes a public place
  where community can be practiced. Suzanne Morse
• Student diversity can promote harmony.

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Some Tips On Student Diversity

• Encourage learners to share their personal
  history and experiences.
• Integrate learning experiences and activities
  which promote students multicultural and
  cross-cultural awareness.
• Aside from highlighting diversity, identify
  patterns of unity that transcend group
  differences.
• Every human is, at the same time, like all
  other humans, like some humans, and like no other
  human. Clyde Kluckholn cited in Wong, 1991)
• Communicate high expectations to students from
  all sub-groups.

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1. Use varied instructional methods to accommodate
   student diversity in learning styles.
2. Vary the examples you use to illustrate concepts
   in order to provide multiple contexts that are
   relevant to students from diverse backgrounds.
3. Adapt to the students diverse backgrounds and
   learning styles by allowing them personal choice
   and decision-making opportunities concerning what
   they will learn and how they will learn it.
4. Diversify your methods of assessing and
   evaluating student learning.
5. Purposely, form small-discussion groups of
   students from diverse backgrounds. You can form
   groups of students with different learning
   styles, different cultural background, etc.

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Thank you!!! ?
Prepared by KENNETH R. CABAÑAS MARIEL P. BADOL