This document discusses individual differences among students and how diversity can be utilized in the classroom. It begins with having students fill out a form about their personal background, interests, strengths and weaknesses. It then discusses ways students are similar and different in terms of behavior, nationality, where they live, etc. It also lists factors that contribute to student diversity like socioeconomic status and learning styles. Finally, it outlines several benefits of student diversity for enhancing self-awareness, cognitive development, preparing students for leadership, and promoting social harmony.

1. INDIVIDUAL
DIFFERENCES

2. “
Everyone is unique.

3. Pre-Activity
name:
age:
gender:
nationality:
province:
language/dialects spoken:
hobbies/interests:
favorite subjects:
subject you are best in:
subject you find difficult:
ambition:
(what you want to be in the future)

4. Analysis
1. In what ways are you and your classmates
similar?
2. In what ways are you and your classmates
different?
3. How does a girl differ from a boy in behavior?
4. In what ways does an American differ from a
Filipino?
5. How does life in the province differ from that of
the city?

5. Analysis
6. Are you glad you have similarities? Differences?
Explain your answer.
7. How can the teacher utilize these similarities and
differences in teaching you?

6. Factors that Bring About Student
Diversity
1. Socioeconomic status
2. Thinking/learning styles
3. Exceptionalities

8. 1. Students’ self-awareness is enhanced in diversity
➢ Exposing students to others with diverse
backgrounds and experiences also serves to
help students focus on their awareness of
themselves. When they see how others are
different, students are given reference points or
comparative perspectives which sharpen
assessment of their own attitudes, values, and
behaviors.

9. 2. Student diversity contributes to cognitive development
“The classroom is
peculiarly the
‘marketplace of ideas’”
-William J. Brennan, SCJ
“The more affects we
allow to speak about one
thing, the more eyes,
different eyes we can use
to observe one thing, the
more complete will our
concept of this thing, our
objectivity be.”
-Nietzsche

10. 3. Student diversity prepares learners for their role as responsible
leaders of society
➢ Suzanne Morse stresses one competency that
has strong implications for instructional strategies
that capitalize on diversity: “The capacity to
imagine situations or problems from all
perspectives and to appreciate all aspects of
diversity.” Furthermore, she argues: “The
classroom can provide more than just theory
given by the teacher in a lecture. With student
diversity, the classroom becomes a “public place’
where community can be practiced.

11. 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. Through student-centered teaching
strategies, diverse students can be encourage to
interact and collaborate with one another on
learning tasks that emphasize unity of effort while
capitalizing on their diversity of backgrounds.