Individuals differ in many characteristics including physical, mental, motor, emotional, interests and attitudes. These individual differences arise from heredity factors inherited from parents and ancestors, as well as environmental influences. In education, individual differences are addressed through strategies like limiting class size, dividing classes by ability, assigning tailored homework, adjusting curriculum and teaching methods, providing guidance, and giving individual attention to students.

1. INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCE

2. Individual differences stand for the
variation or deviations among individuals
in regard to a single characteristic or
number of characteristics.

3. TYPES OF INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES

4. Physical difference
TYPES OF INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
Individuals differ in height, weight,
colour of skin, facial expression,
mannerism of speech and walk, hair
style.

5. Mental intellectual difference
People differ in intellectual abilities
and capacities like thinking, reasoning,
power of imagination and
concentration etc.
TYPES OF INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES

6. Difference in motor ability
There exist a wide differences in motor
abilities or capacities such as speed of
action, rate of muscular moments,
manual dexterity
TYPES OF INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES

7. Difference in achievement
Difference exist in achievement
and in knowledge
TYPES OF INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES

8. Emotional difference
Some are emotionallystable and
mature, while others are emotionally
unstable and aptitude.
TYPES OF INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES

9. Difference in interest and aptitude
Variation occur among the individuals
in relation to the specific tastes and
interests and also people are found to
have different aptitudes.

10. Difference in attitude
Individual differ in their attitudes
towards different people, objects,
institutions and authority.
TYPES OF INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES

11. Learning difference
Various children have various
types of powers of learning.
TYPES OF INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES

12. CAUSES OF INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCE

13. HEREDITY
It is the sum total of mental and physical
qualities that an individual inherit from his
parents and ancestors.
CAUSES OF
INDIVIDUAL
DIFFERENCE

14. TYPES OF HEREDITY

15. TYPES OF HEREDITY
Biological heredity
It involves all those physiological and
psychological characteristics which a
person inherits from his parents and
ancestors through gens in the
chromosome.

16. Social heredity
TYPES OF HEREDITY
It refers to all that one generation
gets from preceding generation in
the form of social customs,
traditions, ideals, values, belief
etc.

17. ENVIRONMENT
By environment we mean all those
physical and mental factors that affect
and influence the development of an
individual.
CAUSES OF
INDIVIDUAL
DIFFERENCE

18. EDUCATIONAL IMPLICATION

19. Limited size of the class

20. Proper division of the class

21. Home task

22. Curriculum

23. Methods of Teaching

24. Educational and Vocational
Guidance

25. Individual attention

26. PRESENTED BY
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