Factors of Individual

Individual Diferences Diferences

Benefits of Diversity in
the Classroom

Classsom Strategies for

Student Diversity
EVERYONE IS UNIQUE
 FACTORS OF INDIVIDUAL
DIFFERENCES
• 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 the class there may be one who
has difficulty in spoken language
comprehension or in seeing, hearing etc.
 BENEFITS OF DIVERSITY IN
THE CLASSROOM
1. Student's self awareness is enhance
by diversity
2. Student diversity contributes to cognitive
development.
3. Student diversity prepares learners for
their role as responsible members of
society.
4. Student diversity can promote harmony.
 STUDENT’S SELF AWARENESS IS
ENHANCE BY DIVERSITY

• Exposing students to others

with diverse background may
enhance their self awareness.
 STUDENT DIVERSITY
CONTRIBUTES TO COGNITIVE
DEVELOPMENT

• It is the opportunity to gain

access to the perspective
peers and to other strudent.
 STUDENT DIVERSITY
PREPARES LEARNERS FOR
THEIR ROLE AS RESPONSIBLE
MEMBERS OF SOCIETY
• Suzane Mores argued : “the classroom
can provide more than just theory given
by the teacher in a lecture.”
 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 relationship.
 
 CLASSROOM STRATEGIES
FOR STUDENT DIVERSITY
1. Encourage learners to share their
personal history and experiences.
2. I ntegrate learning experience and activities
which promote students multicultural and
cross- cultural awareness.
3. Aside from highlighting diversity, identify
patterns of unity that transcend group
differences.
4. Communicate high expectations
to students from all subgroups.
5. Use varied instructional
methods to accommodate
student diversity in
learning styles.
6. Varry the examples you use to
illustrate concept in order to
provide multiple contexts that
are relevant to student from
diverse backgrounds
7. Adapt to the student 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.
8. Diversity your methods of
assessing and evaluating student
learning.
9. Purposely, form small-discussion
groups of students from diverse
backgrounds. You can form
groups of students with different
learning styles, different cultural