This aims to help MA students with their report in Psychosocial Foundation of Education

1. Individual Differences
Reporter: Aida Purificacion C. David
MAT - Science
Professorial Lecturer: Dr. Lourdes T. Tejada

2. Objectives:
1. Identify the factors of Individual Differences and its
importance .
2. Describe the Qualities of an Effective Teacher.
3. Understand the Role of Schools in Meeting the Individual
Differences in Education.

3. INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
⮚ No two Individuals can be exactly alike in their resulting development and
adjustments. The unique characteristics and traits emerges as children
passes from one stage to another.
⮚ The rate of development is not the same for all individuals. Some develop
and learn faster than the others. Sometimes the gap is wide.

4. Learning is most effective when differences in
learner’s language, cultural and social behavior are taken
into account.

5. PERSONALITY
TWO MAJOR
FACTORS
HEREDITY ENVIRONMENT
INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES – is the uneven rate of growth and development among individuals.

6. We inherited almost all the
things we need for growth and
development of an individual.
Heredity gives all potentials
for growth and development.
Environment modifies to a
certain extent the effects of
hereditary.
Environment provides the
direction of the growth and
development of an individuals
Heredity Environment

7. A. Heredity
1. Intelligence (mental ability) – Some are more intelligent than the others and those
who are more intelligent, progress and grow faster than those who are less intelligent.
2. Physical Condition – It has been observed that some people are born bigger, healthier
and stronger than the others.
3. Aptitude and Special Talent – gifted with special aptitudes and talents are often
show excellence of performance and leadership in their respective fields of specialization
far above the ordinary individuals.
4. Sex – Determines the direction of the growth and development of individuals.
5. Age – It is a big factor in making one different from one another.
6. Temperament (emotional maturity and stability) – Emotional stability is the
capacity to maintain one’s emotional balance under stressful circumstances.
7. Introversion-extroversion, dominance – submissiveness –
8. Effort – making capacity - an important trait, one with much effort-making capacity
studies and works harder, concentrates more and exhibits steadiness in his work.

8. 9. Criminal tendency – Psychologists can prove that criminal tendency is inherited.
⮚ Children who have this tendency are usually bullies, trouble makers and they commit any
anti-social acts, in or out of school.
B. Environment
1. Family Background – includes the level of education and value orientation of
parents is an other determinant.
2. Community Background – It can be observed that children of individuals coming
from these different types of communities differ markedly in their values,
manners, actions and thinking.
3. School – It is very important factors in learning and development. Good school develop
pupils better than the poor ones.
There are three components make the difference between the good and poor school
1. Teachers
2. Facilities
3. Location

9. FACILITIES
⮚ Adequate and serviceable, the pupils learn well and program rapidly, otherwise pupils will be
retarded in learning.
LOCATION
⮚ Children studying in a school located in a very quiet place find learning conducive.
ROLES OF SCHOOLS IN MEETING THE INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
1. Proper knowledge of the individuals’ potentialities
2. Adjusting grouping
3. Adjusting the Curriculum
4. Adjusting the method of Teaching
5. Adjusting Special programs or methods for individualizing instruction.

10. TEACHERS
⮚ If teachers are efficiently in the true sense of the word, the pupils learn remarkably
well than when the teachers are inefficient, in which use the pupils suffer setback.
Qualities of an Effective Teacher
⮚ An Effective Teacher loves to teach
⮚ An Effective Teacher demonstrates a caring attitude
⮚ An Effective Teacher can relate to his or her students
⮚ An Effective Teacher is willing to think outside the box
⮚ An Effective Teacher is an excellent communicator
⮚ An Effective Teacher is proactive rather than the reactive
⮚ An Effective Teacher strives to be better
⮚ An Effective Teacher uses a variety of media and their lessons
⮚ An Effective Teacher challenges their students
⮚ An Effective Teacher understands the Content that they teach and knows how to explain that content
is a matter that their students understand.

11. Educational Implications of Individual differences
⮚ It is wrong to expect uniformity in gaining proficiency or success in a particular field from a
group of students. On account of their subnormal intelligence, previous background, lack of
proper interest, aptitude and attitude, etc. Some students lag behind in one or the other
area of achievement.
⮚ All student cannot be benefited by a particular method of instructions, a uniform and a rigid
curriculum.
⮚ A teacher should be sensitive to individual differences.
⮚ A teachers’ challenge is to acknowledge and celebrate the differences among children and
work to maximize the growth of each child.

12. REFERENCES:
• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc
• https://Jstor.org/stable
• https://www.slideshare.net/JonalynManalili/
individual-differences
• https://cetl.olemiss.edu/learning-centered-
psychological-principles/