Learning Task 5 My Learners, Their Gender Strengths, Needs Interests

and Experiences
PPST Domain1 and 6 Domain 1.3 Diversity of Learners

Strands 3.1.1 Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of

differentiated teaching to suit learners; gender, need,
strengths, interest, and experiences.
Program Outcomes of 6.2. C Facilitate learning using a wide range of teaching
Education methodologies and delivery modes appropriate to specific
learners and their environments.
CFSAT (Competency 3.B.2 Employ strategies that cater to students learning
Framework for styles and to elicit active learning
Southeast
Asian Teachers for 21st
Century)

Desired Learning Outcomes

 Identify the needs, strengths, interest, and experiences of my learners.
 Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of differentiated teaching to suit
learners; gender, need, strengths, interest, and experiences.
 Research on one (1) study about the diversity of the learners.

Essential Questions
 What is meant by diversity of learners?
 How do learners differ?
 What differentiated activities must be applied to suit learners need, strengths,
interest, and experiences?

Understanding
Diversity of learners refers to the differences among students most especially
in the way they learn in the variety of processes with varied outcomes.
Teachers can facilitate the learning process among diverse learners by first
recognizing and respecting individual differences, then using the knowledge about
students’ differences to design differentiated learning activities to ensure that all
students can attain desired learning goals. (PPST Domain 3)
 Code of Ethics for Professional Teachers, Article VIII Sec. 3 dictates that
“Under no circumstance shall a teacher be prejudice nor discriminatory against any
learner.”
Learners’ differences stem from many factors: gender, race, ethnicity, or
cultural background (nationality, province, language) intellectual abilities, regions
sexual preferences and socio economic status, needs, interests, strengths, and
experiences.
 All learners have different ways of thinking, learning, and absorbing.
 Students’ self-awareness is enhance by diversity.
 Student diversity contribute to cognitive development. It can also promote
harmony.
 Learners are diverse and subjects must be taught differently to respond to their
needs, interest, strengths, and experiences.
 Reach every student at his/her level.
 Assist your students to grow and celebrate success.
 All learners are worthy of respect and dignity.

My Performance Task
s Performance Task 1

INFOGRAPHICS ON DIVERSITY OF LEARNERS

 Performance Task 2

There are different learners based on learning modalities. They are auditory, visual and tactile
learners. Cite application on how you can stimulate their strengths, needs and experiences
based on their learning modalities.

Types of Learners based on Learning How shall I stimulate learning through their
Modalities learning modalities?
If the child is a visual learner, surround him or
her with books. You’ll notice that even before he
or she can read, your child will be interested in
bright pictures and the stories they represent. A
visual learner is probably also a budding artist.
To help them remember information more
clearly, stock up art supplies that they can use to
create visual representations of what they’re
learning.
Visual
I will try recording them reading the lesson out
loud and give them the audio to listen to later.
When they’re stumped by a new concept, start a
conversation about it, and let your child work
through the logic of the problem by talking to
you about it. When they’re trying to memorize
something, suggest making up a silly song about
it. Auditory learners are also often intrigued by
word play and language
patterns

Auditory
 I will add motion to otherwise sedentary
homework sessions by getting your child a
stationary bicycle or a big, bouncy exercise ball
that they can sit on instead of a desk chair.
We’ve also found at Whitby that standing desks
are a good way to help fidgety kids focus more
in our classrooms. You can create one at home
by letting your child work on a counter or
stacking books to create a workspace that’s
higher than the traditional desk.

Tactile

Performance Task 2
Create a teaching matrix of differentiated teaching based on the various intelligences of
learners.

Intelligences Strategies Application to my

Subject area
Word Reading Storytelling
Smart
(Linguistic
Intelligence)
Number Numbers and Make up analogies
Smart abstract patterns
(Logical/Analytical
Intelligence)
People Smart Sharing Give and receive
(Interpersonal feedback
Intelligence)

Self -Smart Individualized projects Writing a journal

(Intrapersonal entry
Intelligence)

Music Smart Using rhythm Indicate the

(Musical rhythmical patterns
Intelligence)

Art Spending time outdoors Making a collage

Smart
(Visual-Spatial
 Intelligence)
Body Processing information Role play
Smart
(Bodily/Kinesthetic
Intelligence)

Nature Smart Classifying Attend an outdoor

(Naturalist fieldtrip
Intelligence)
How do these strategies contribute to my learning? Write a one-liner statement.
These strategies contribute to my learning in a way that the concept of learning strategies is
very important. More teachers need to be aware of it and should improve their students'
learning strategies as well as to help them learn learning strategies in the first place. In today's
society, learning is a cooperative process which includes social interaction.

My Learning Artifacts
Go to the Library and get a research abstract on student diversity.
Title
An Action Research Case Study on Students' Diversity in the
Classroom: Focus on Students' Diverse Learning Progress

Researcher(s)

Wu, Ruiting & Tu, Yongwei & Wu, Ruijuan & Le, Quynh & Reynolds,
Bronwyn. (2012).
Abstract

Students' diverse learning progress exists in every classroom. This study

aimed to discover what strategies can be used to deal with students' diverse
learning progress in classroom. The data gathering consisted of two structured
interview and observations. Qualitative approach was utilized to analyze the
data. The study reflected on the practices of addressing students' diverse
learning progress and made an action plan for improving primary school
teaching. The findings from this study have the potential to enrich the
teaching approaches in both primary and secondary schools.