How Student Diversity Enriches Learning Environments
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This document discusses how student diversity enriches the learning environment. It identifies factors that contribute to student diversity, including socioeconomic status and thinking/learning styles. The document also provides teaching tips on accommodating student diversity, such as encouraging students to share their experiences, using varied instructional methods, and forming small discussion groups with diverse backgrounds.
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How Student Diversity Enriches Learning Environments
- 1. Individual Differences Facilitating Learing Teacher Anna Merin-Adtani Mother Theresa Review and Learning Center
- 2. Factors that bring about Student Diversity Socioeconomic status Thinking/learning style Exceptionalities
- 3. How Student Diversity Enriches the Learning Environment 1. Students’ self-awareness is enchanced by diversity 2. Student diversity contributes to cognitive development 3. Student diversity prepares learners for their role as responsible members of society.
- 4. 4. Student diversity can promote harmony. How Student Diversity Enriches the Learning Environment
- 5. Teaching Tips on Student Diversity 1. Encourage learners to share their personal history and experiences. 2. Integrate learning experiences and activities which promote students’ multicultural and cross-cultural awarness.
- 6. Teaching Tips on Student Diversity 3. Identify patterns of unity that transcends group differences. 4. Communicate high expectations to students from all subgroups. 5. Use varied instructional methods to accommodate diversity in learning styles.
- 7. Teaching Tips on Student Diversity 6. Vary examples you use to illustrate concepts in order to provide multiple contexts that are relevant to the students from diverse backgrounds.
- 8. Teaching Tips on Student Diversity 7. Allow personal choice and decision-making opportunities concerning what they will learn and how they will learn it. 8. Diversify your methods of assessing and evaluating student learning.
- 9. Teaching Tips on Student Diversity 9. Purposely, form small- discussion groups of students from diverse backgrounds.
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- Students are given reference points or comparative perspectives which sharpen self-assessment of attitudes, values and behaviors The classroom is market place fro ideas (William Brenan); The depth and breadth of student learning is enhanced by exposure to different points of view and varied approaches to the TLP. The classroom is a “public place” where community can be practiced; students develop their capacity to imagine situations and problems from all perspectives and appreciate all aspects of diversity.
- 4. Through collaborative work and accomplishing tasks that emphasize unity of effort