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Sunday, November 28, 2021

Diversity among our classes

 

     Students in our classes can range from how do they look, the way they respond to our instructions, maturity, personality and the ability to learn. This diversity should implement differentiating instructions in our classes.

  Students in classes during a lesson can be classified as:

  •       Know the lesson.
  •       Learning the lesson.
  •       And don’t know what we are talking about.

        On the other hand, they can be classified by their learning styles: some are good listeners who can benefit from the teacher’s presentations; others need to read or discuss and idea; and some students need to practice to accomplish understanding.

        Moreover, culture plays a big rule in the diversity of students in classes. Along with the benefits that different cultures bring to classes from altitudes, values, believes, and way of acting and interacting, it is considering as one of the important factors that divide the classes into low and high achievers.

       For this we as teachers should use diverse of instructions and methods to meet the learning needs of our students, we know that no one form of instructions can be effective with all students and no student can learn the same way and same rate as another.

       Some of the major instructional options is grouping students according to their abilities, where dividing the students into two types of groups: low ability and high ability students can benefit both types. In such groups we may assign challenging activities and some times games for the high achievers that can stimulate their critical thinking and develop their thinking and social skill. Meanwhile teachers can work with the low achievers emphasizing on the main objectives and giving them more time to complete their tasks.

       Another option that we can use is providing a strategy instruction for the low achievers. Explaining the strategy to our students, modeling it, and then practice is very helpful. For example, I ask my students to teach someone else in their family about what we learn, and I usually ask them to make a scheme for long lessons where they keep the rules and the important concepts.

        We can also use the peer tutoring, where we assign students to 1 to 1 pair, one of them will be paying the teachers role. This kind of working is motivated for both students high and low achievers.it might be good for the social interactions in the class. In order to have an effective peer tutoring work we should teach our students how to teach, explain the main objectives, and keep monitoring all the students during this work and help those who need. At last, evaluate the results.

   Many other things can be done to help diverse  classes, like building relation ship with students, encourage and motivate students in each step of the learning process, and using technology in our classes.

 

 

 

4 comments:

  1. Of course, diversity is an important issue we as teachers should be aware about. Students in the class differ in their abilities, way of thinking and getting the information. So, teachers should have variety of activities and exercises and different skills to meet all students' needs.

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  2. You have mentioned important strategies that can be followed to meet students' needs and support their differences. Besides, One of the important things is to let the students choose between individual work, small group work, and pair work. Some student learn and perform better when they work alone, others do better when working with others as you stated.

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  3. As teachers, we must be cognizant of the importance of diversity. This class has a wide range of learning styles and skills among the students. You've outlined a number of effective ways to address the needs of students and support their uniqueness.

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  4. Of course, diversity is an important issue each teacher should be aware of it. Each teacher should have her strategies to meet all the students need.

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