“INDIVIDUAL

DIFFERENCES ”
EDUC 1- MODULE 4
FACTORS
THAT BRING
ABOUT
STUDENT
DIVERSITY
In all learning environments,
individuals interact with
the others who are in same
ways different from them
DIVERSITY ALSO
COMES FROM OTHER
FACTORS LIKE THE
FOLLOWING

SOCIOECONOMIC
STATUS
THINKING/LEARNING
STYLE
EXCEPTIONALITIES
 “SOCIOECONOMIC
STATUS”

The millionaire’s lifestyle differs

from that of the middle income
or lower income group
 “THINKING/
LEARNING STYLE”
Some of you learn better by
seeing something; others
by just listening; and still
others by manipulating
something
“EXCEPTIONALITIES”

In class there maybe one who

was has difficulty in spoken
language comprehension or in
seeing, hearing. etc
HOW STUDENTS
DIVERSITY
ENRICHES THE
LEARNING
ENVIRONMENT
 - A TEACHER MAY BE CHALLENGED TO
HANDLE A CLASS WITH STUDENTS SO
DIVERSE.

THERE MAY BE STUDENTS HAVING DIFFERENT

CULTURAL BACKGROUND, DIFFERENT
LANGUAGE ABILITIES, DIFFERENT ATTITUDES,
APTITUDES AND BEHAVIOR
“BENEFITS AND
LEARNING
OPPURTUNITIES
THAT STUDENT
DIVERSITY CAN
BRING TO YOUR
CLASSROOM”
 1.STUDENT’S SELF
AWARENESS IS ENHANCED
BY DIVERSITY
Exposing students to others with
diverse backgrounds and experiences
also serves to help
students fucos in their awareness of
themselves
 2. STUDENTS DIVERSITY
CONTRIBUTES TO
COGNITIVE
DEVELOPMENT
The opportunity to gain acess to the
perspective of peers and to learn from
other students, rather than the
instructor only,
may be especially important for
promoting thé cognitive development
of learners
 3.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
4.STUDENT DIVERSITY
CAN PROMOTE
HARMONY
Through student centered teaching
strategies , diverse students can be
encouraged to interact and
collaborate with ine another
TIPS ON STUDENT
DIVERSITY
1. Encourage learnears to share their
personal history and experience
2. Integrate learning experiences and
activities which promote students
multicultural and cross-cultural
awareness
3. Aside from highlighting diversity
identity patterns of unity they
transcend group differences
4. Communicate high expectations to
students from all subgroups
5. Use varied instructional methods to
accommodate students diversity in learning
styles
6.Vary the examples you use to illustrate
concepts in order to provide multiple
contexts that are relevant to students
from diverse backgrounds
7. Adopt to the students diverse
backgrounds and learning styles by
allowing them personal choice and
decisions making opportunities concerning
what they will learn and how they will learn
it
8. Diversity your methods of assessing and
evaluating students learning
9. Purposely form small discussions grouo
of students diverse backgrounds
THANK
❤️
YOU!