Learning Methods Within a Learning Setting, Each

Learning Methods

Within a learning setting, each student comes with their individual package and it is not possible to have two pupils learning concepts in the same way despite the fact that they are taught with the same curriculum by the same educators as well. Naseem International School accommodates students from different cultures and backgrounds with different needs. The needs are not purely academic and learning needs only but also cultural and social needs hence care is needed. This paper looks at how teachers can plan for and assess the individual needs of students as well as identify and discuss strategies which promote and enhance the learning of students who have different educational needs (Project Ideal, 2008).

It is critical to asses the pupils in my class since they differ in terms of their abilities to learn and imbibe concepts in class. This assessment can be done as below:

Highest attainer: (Student A)

Identify your criteria:

Prepared a quiz for the class

Student A took the shortest time and scored the highest points

Lowest attainer: (Student B)

Identify your criteria:

Prepared a quiz for the class

Student B. took relatively longer time but still never scored as high as student A.

Table 1

This criterion shows that student A is the highest attainer while B. is the lowest attainer.

Another issue that might arise is that the child might feel demoralized when they know they are being treated in a special way, hence I should make sure that when planning for their work the child should not feel out of place. Hence, planning should be done carefully so that no child in the class might feel superior or inferior in any way. As an Arts teacher handling children of 11 years of age and below, who have various needs I should ensure that I strive to create a wide variety of avenues when teaching so that they can cater for the pupils with different abilities, strengths and needs in the learning process. The students should acquire the information presented to them, process it, make sense of the information and at the same time develop materials that will be used to teach and asses them that will ensure all the students in the classrooms learn effectively without different abilities being a hindrance. Strategies to be used are as below

Strategies

Student A

Student B

One:

Plan oral presentations by the child to help other children in the class understand more on what has been taught in class.

The use of visual teaching aids like drawings, making of posters, video to reinforce recall of taught concepts.

Two:

Plan for charts that include mind mapping that will help the child

The use of maps and images

Three:

Pairing of student A with Student B. during scribbling so that they can help each other.

With time identifying which student (fast attainer) is student B. most confident with and comfortable working along.

Four:

Setting up groups where this student can be a group leader.

Allocating the student to the group most comfortable with and with a balance of students from group A and B.

Five:

Assigning of student A specific leadership role in a role plays to enhance his understanding on a particular subject matter and encourage sharing.

Ensuring the student is an active member of a group that allows him to take part in the role play and freely learn through participation with the others.

Table 2

Differentiation learning among students

This can be achieved through the creation of worksheets involve easier tasks at the beginning and they progressively get difficult and hence only able students tackle them as they easily raced over the earlier questions. The teacher instructs the students to choose on naming electrical appliances used in the kitchen, or used in the house in general or even used in the office. It will give chance to those kids with the ability to recall the kitchen appliances a good ground to compete with those who can recall living room appliances and even those who find office appliances easier to recall.

This can be done through the issuing of a similar set of questions to all students and hence differentiation is achieved through the ability of the students to answer the questions. One instance to be used is to instruct the students to name the various electric appliances used in the kitchen within two minutes.

Douglous.D.Christensen, (1996).

Differential technique is quite vital for students in any education system, when it comes to differentiation by outcome the tasks are usually designed in such a way that they are open ended so that the students are able to make something from their personal response since it might be that the teacher has not thoroughly thought through what they are doing but just set up a task with no strategy behind it (Sue Watson, 2012).