Diversity of Learners.pptx

Diversity of Learners

1. Diversity of Learners

2. Diversity of Learners Individual Differences Factors Socio-economic Status Thinking/Learning Styles Exceptionalities Classroom Strategies for Student Diversity Benefits of Diversity in the Classroom

3. Teachers need to integrate various educational ideas, perspectives, and theories in planning instruction for all types of students.

4. Ball (2000), pointed out that the enormous complexities of today’s world require a new vision for schooling that responds to the needs of the global and multicultural society in which we live.

5. The classrooms are becoming more complex and diverse (Shim 2011). Teachers therefore play a significant role in helping the students become cosmopolitan members of society.

6. Understanding the learners is the first thing that teachers should do before planning and implementing of instruction.

7. Factors that bring about Student Diversity Socio-economic Status Thinking/Learning Styles Multiple Intelligences Brain Hemispheres Exceptionalities

8. T E A C H E R Cognitive, affective, and psychomotor development of Learners Influence of Diversity factors on Education Learning Styles and Thinking Preferences of Learner should know and practice

9. Cognitive, affective, and psychomotor development of Learners -Psychology provides us with studies, theories, and principles about the development and nature of every learner.

10. Influence of Diversity factors on Education -Students are responding to culturally diverse individuals. Students are becoming diverse. They have different interests and issues too.

11. Influence of Diversity factors on Education -It is also important for teachers to instill a global perspectives among students exposing them to the histories, languages, religious traditions, and cultures of countries and other places.

12. Learning Styles and Thinking Preferences of Learner - Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligence Theory (1981)

13. Benefits of Diversity in the Classroom

14. 1. Student’s self-awareness is enhanced by Diversity Exposing students to others with diverse backgrounds and experiences also serves to help students focus on their awareness of themselves.

15. 2. Student Diversity contributes to Cognitive Development The opportunity to gain access to the perspectives of peers and to learn from other students, rather than the instructor only, may be especially important for promoting learner’s cognitive development.

16. 3. Student Diversity prepares learners for their role as responsible members of society

17. 4. Student Diversity can promote harmony When student diversity is integrated into the classroom teaching and learning process, it can become a vehicle for promoting harmonious race relations.

18. Classroom Strategies for Student Diversity

19. Encourage learners to share their personal history and experiences. Integrate learning experiences and activities which promote student’s multicultural and cross-cultural awareness.

20. Aside from highlighting diversity, identify patterns of unity that transcend group differences. Communicate high expectations to students from all subgroups.

21. Use varied instructional methods to accommodate student diversity in learning styles. Vary the examples you use to illustrate concepts in order to provide multiple contexts that are relevant to students from diverse backgrounds.

22. Adapt to 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.

23. Diversify your methods of assessing and evaluating student learning. Purposely, form small-discussion groups of students from diverse backgrounds.

24. Prepared by: Group 8-BSED 1-A Jomar L. Pore Maricar Gerez