Students as Diverse Learners Flashcards
How is student’s learning influenced?
Age; cognitive development; language, culture, family, community values, individual experiences, talents, motivations and prior learning.
Sucessful teachers need to understand each individual and all of the variables of their lives to be able to understand how they will __________.
Learn….
What are the primary group differences?
Language, culture, family and community values.
What are the primary individual difference?
Individual experiences, talents, motivations, and prior learnings. (SCHEMA)
_______: Behaviors that are generally shared among students of specific cultural and ethnic groups.
Group differences
How are group differences identified?
when the behavior of the individuals in the same group is more similar, on average, than the behaviors of individuals from different groups.
What is the norm?
Average behavior of the members of a group. It is important to remember that individuals within a group will also be somewhat different from one another.
Gender Differences: Girls develop ______ _____ skills earlier than boys.
Fine Motor Skills
Gender Differences: Girls have ______ earlier than boys.
Puberty
On average, boys and girls perform ______ on test of general intelligence.
similarly..
Boys perform better on task requiring ________ skills.
Visual - Spatial
Ability to imagine and mentally manipulate two-and three-dimensional figures.
Visual - Spatial (Boys perform Better)
Girls perform better on some, but not all, verbal skills and tend to have larger _______.
Vocabulary.
Researchers speculate that gender differences are in part due to _________
differences in brain development.
More boys that girls are identified with _________
learning disabilities
Boys are more ______ than girls
Active… they talk more and ask more questions, and they are more likely to call out answers and dominate the classroom
______ are slower to respond in groups, less likely to volunteer ideas and ask questions, and often wait to be called on directly.
girls
Teachers should keep cultural differences in mind when anticipating or evaluating student behaviors, as the _________ ________ that occurs when the child’s home culture and school culture have conflicting expectations that can negatively affect student’s academic achievement.
Cultural Mismatch.
List five Cultural differences
- Use of Language and Dialect
Dialect
_______: form of speech that has certain unique pronunciations, idioms, and grammatical structures and is characteristic of a particular region or ethnic group
___________: people who have common historical roots, values, beliefs, and behaviors and who share a sense of interdependence.
Ethnic Group
interdependence
a relationship between countries in which they rely on one another for resources, goods, or services
Socioeconimic Status (SES)
A measure of social class based on income and education. * definition from online search**
Students from _______ SES, especially those who live in poverty, are at risk of academic difficulties and behavior problems.
Lower
Children of Lower SES are frequently faced with: (list a few)
Poor nutrition, exposure to toxins, inadequate and often unstable housing, and fewer community and home resources… less parental involvement, fewer classroom resources, and teachers with lower expectations, less safe neighborhoods.
