This document discusses learner differences and factors that can affect learning outcomes. It identifies differences among learners in abilities, characteristics, physical attributes, intelligence, emotions, aptitudes, social development, socioeconomic status, and thinking/learning styles. These differences are influenced by both hereditary and environmental factors like genes, culture, family background, gender, and previous experiences. Understanding these learner differences is important for teachers to design flexible instruction that meets the needs of all types of students.

2. A learner is someone who is learning about a particular
subject, a person who is trying to gain knowledge or skill
in something by studying, practicing, or being taught.

3.  Differences in abilities and characteristics among
students at a particular age.
 The personal attributes that vary from one learner to
another.
 They can be physical, psychological or emotional.

4.  How could one learner be more successful than another?
 What factor, other than instructors, materials and
environment may affect the result of learning?

5.  Heredity (Nature)
• What occurs naturally as a function of the genes.
 Environment (Nurture)
• What is learned and communicated in different cultures or
other social groups includes family, socio-economic status,
culture, previous knowledge, experience and gender
differences.
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6.  Physical Differences
 Intelligence Quotient
 Emotional Quotient
 Aptitude
 Social Development
 Socioeconomic Status
 Thinking/Learning Style

7.  Individual differ in height, weight, colour of skin, colour
of eyes, mannerisms of speech and walk, and other
physical characteristics.

9. Learners also differ in the manner they express their
emotions. Some are emotionally stable and mature,
while others are emotionally unstable and immature.

10.  Variations occur among the learners in relation to the specific
tastes and interests.
 Learners have different aptitudes. Some have mechanical
aptitude, while the others have scholastic, musical or artistic
aptitudes.

11. Some can adjust properly in the social situations while
others are socially handicapped, unsocial or antisocial.

12. The socio-economic status depends on different
variables including occupation, education, wealth and
place of residence.

13. Some learn better by seeing something; others by just
listening and still others best learn by doing things.
“The more teachers can involve all the modalities and learning styles, the
more chances they have of engaging learners in using their whole brains”
-GAYLE GREGORY & CAROLYN CHAPMAN (2006)

15. To sum up, in the classroom, teachers aren’t simply teaching
students with twenty different faces; they are teaching twenty
different students, each with distinctive needs and talents, and
different levels of motivation, attention, knowledge, social
background, and maturity. Understanding learner differences is a
must for teachers to create and implement flexible instruction that
would meet the needs of all kinds of learners.
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