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Learning Diversity 103 REPORT

The document discusses several factors relating to student diversity in the classroom: (1) Individual differences in learning abilities, backgrounds, cultures, and experiences enrich the learning environment when respected and accommodated; (2) Socioeconomic status, thinking/learning styles, and exceptionalities all contribute to diversity among students; (3) A teacher must consider individual differences to plan effective instruction that meets diverse student needs.

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Learning Diversity 103 REPORT

The document discusses several factors relating to student diversity in the classroom: (1) Individual differences in learning abilities, backgrounds, cultures, and experiences enrich the learning environment when respected and accommodated; (2) Socioeconomic status, thinking/learning styles, and exceptionalities all contribute to diversity among students; (3) A teacher must consider individual differences to plan effective instruction that meets diverse student needs.

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Learning diversity’ refers to the infinite variety of life experiences and attributes a child brings to their

formal learning at school. All students with diverse learning needs have a right to access a full and
engaging education on the same basis as their peers. 

Individual differences in learning. Learners have different strategies, approaches, and capabilities for
learning that are a function of prior experience and heredity.

Individuals are born with and develop their own capabilities and talents. In addition, through learning and
social acculturation, they have acquired their own preferences for how they like to learn and the pace at
which they learn. However, these preferences are not always useful in helping learners reach their
learning goals. Educators need to help students examine their learning preferences and expand or modify
them, if necessary. The interaction between learner differences and curricular and environmental
conditions is another key factor affecting learning outcomes. Educators need to be sensitive to individual
differences, in general. They also need to attend to learner perceptions of the degree to which these
differences are accepted and adapted to by varying instructional methods and materials.

Individual Differences Factors

Learning and diversity. Learning is most effective when differences in learners' linguistic, cultural, and
social backgrounds are taken into account. The same basic principles of learning, motivation, and
effective instruction apply to all learners. However, language, ethnicity, race, beliefs, and socioeconomic
status all can influence learning. Careful attention to these factors in the instructional setting enhances the
possibilities for designing and implementing appropriate learning environments. When learners perceive
that their individual differences in abilities, backgrounds, cultures, and experiences are valued, respected,
and accommodated in learning tasks and contexts, levels of motivation and achievement are enhanced.

  In all learning environments, individual interact with others who are in some way different from them and that.
what we called "diversity". This diversity also comes from other factors like SOCIO ECONOMIC STATUS,
THINKING/ LEARNING STYLES and EXCEPTIONALITIES.

In socioeconomic status, it depends on how individual differ in life style from that of the middle income or lower
income group. It also depend on a combination of variables including occupation, education, income,wealth and
place of residence. Socioeconomic status is the measure of the influence that the social environment has on
individual, families, communities and schools. In many ways, socioeconomic status is related to the concept of
social class.The next factor is, thinking / learning style of every learner which involves their different strategies and
techniques on how they learn easily and effectively. There are some learners learn by seeing and looking and others
are by hearing and listening. On the other hand, there are individual learn better by touching and doing. Wherein
they actually perform what they want to know and learn, that's why every learner have their own styles in learning.
And the last is the exceptionalities, in these factor learners with exceptionalities as persons who are different in some
way from the "normal" or "average". Exceptional learners includes those with special needs related to cognitive
abilities, behavior, emotional disturbances and giftedness. And the learners require a lot of understanding and
patience as well as special education and related services to reach their full of development.

And to those factors that bring about student diversity, the teacher as a facilitator of learning is task to consider the
individual differences among the students in planning for effective instruction. Every individual being diverse in
terms of culture, race, gender, age, learning abilities, social requirements, physical / mental disorders, learning
strategies, skills, past knowledge, socioeconomic and educational background and language.

              How student Diversity Enriches the Learning Environment


       A teacher may be " challenged " to handle a class with so diverse. Why? Because there are students having
different language, abilities, cultural background, different attitude and behaviors. A wise teacher see a diversity in a
classroom in a respect way and in a god terms. For other teacher, having a diversity in a  classroom is an exciting
part because not only the  students are learned also the instructors as well. But a word " hassle" are upset at the mind
of the teacher who are difficult to adapt the diversity happened in a classroom.
  
    Lets discover the benefits and learning opportunities that students diversity can bring to your classroom.

  STUDENT'S SELF AWARENESS IS ENHANCE BY DIVERSITY


    - exposing students to others with diverse background may enhance their self-awareness. Because they see the
differences between themselves and other, and they are given points to sharpen an assessment to their own
attitudes,values, and behaviors.

 STUDENT DIVERSITY CONTRIBUTES TO COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT 


     -it is the opportunity to gain access to the perspective peers and to other student. And not only the teacher can
gain more cognitive knowledge but also other student can gain more knowledge and information with diverse
culture of other students.

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.
Which students diversity, the classroom becomes a public place where community can be practiced.

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.

" SOME TIPS ON STUDENT DIVERSITY"


  1. Encourage learners to share their personal history and experiences.
  2. Integrate 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 background. 

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