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
1. Socio-economic Status
2. Thinking/Learning Styles
Multiple Intelligences
Brain Hemispheres
3. Exceptionalities

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

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

21. 5. Use varied instructional methods to
accommodate student 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.

22. 7. 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. 8. Diversify your methods of assessing
and evaluating student learning.
9. Purposely, form small-discussion
groups of students from diverse
backgrounds.

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