Individual Differences

Facilitating Learning 1
July 9, 2019
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William J. Brennan (Supreme Court Justice) – The classroom
is peculiarly the ‘marketplace of ideas’
Nietzsche (German philosopher) – “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.”

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Suzanne Morse – “The capacity to imagine situations or problems from all
perspectives and to appreciates all aspects of diversity”.
- “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”.

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 Students will made to realize that they have something in
common with the rest. They also differ in several ways.
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You can encourage or even initiate co-curricular experiences that are
aimed at promoting diversity awareness.
Let students interview other students on campus who are from diverse
backgrounds
Ask students if they have been discriminate and have them share these
experiences with other member of the class.
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Clyde Kluckholn (American Anthropologist) – “Every human is, at the
same time, like all other humans, like some humans and like no other
human”.
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Assigning them the role of reporters in small group of discussions.
Having them engaged in paired discussions.
Learn the name of your student.
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Sensory/Perceptual Modalities
Instructional Formats or procedures
Student Centered
Teacher Centered
Unstructured
Structured
Independent Learning
Interdependent Learning
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Have students complete personal information cards during the first week of class
and use this information to select example that are relevant to their personal interest
Have students apply concepts by placing them in a situation
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Students can demonstrate their learning in a variety of performance:
 Individually – delivered oral reports
 Panel presentations
 Group projects
 Visual Presentation
 Dramatic Vignette
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Peer learning groups may promote this cognitive advancement because:

1. The instructor is removed from center stage
2. Student are exposed to the perspectives of other student

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