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Understanding Students' Backgrounds: Enhancing Learning Through Awareness and Adaptation

Exploring the significance of recognizing students' diverse backgrounds is essential to effective teaching. This paper discusses methods to gather valuable information on learners, such as their cultural, medical, and educational histories. By incorporating insights about their developmental stages and acknowledging gender differences, educators can customize their approach. Supporting quotes highlight the importance of knowing students well for impactful teaching. Understanding these factors enables teachers to create an inclusive environment that fosters learning and personal growth in every student.

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Understanding Students' Backgrounds: Enhancing Learning Through Awareness and Adaptation

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  1. Domain AA1 Becoming familiar with relevant aspects of students’ background knowledge and experiences.

  2. Quotes to Ponder • “To Teach a kid well, you have to know a kid well.” • Unkown • “Children need sympathy and guidance far more than instruction.” • Anne Sullivan

  3. How to Organize this Paper • 1st paragraph: Intro • Why is this topic important? • 2nd, 3rd, and 4th paragraphs: Body • How do you locate learner background information? (These would be your artifacts as well!) • Reference developmental aspects of the learner and the learning process.

  4. Organizing your Paper (Continued) • Explain components and implications of cultural and gender differences in communication in the teaching and learning process. (More artifact ideas!) • Last Paragraph: Conclusion

  5. Why is This Topic Important? • Research says you learn by reconfiguring and reorganizing what you already know. • A teacher can build upon students experiences. • Recognizing differences and becoming familiar with them will help to better reach students individually in the classroom. • Helps a teacher’s efforts to help students learn and grow (academically and in character).

  6. What are the Components of this Paper? • Racial/Cultural differences • Medical History • Religious differences • Past Grades • Disabilities (physical or mental – may not be able to SEE the disability) • Records of Progress • Family Backgrounds • Subject Knowledge • Gender Differences • Developmental Aspects

  7. How can you Locate Background Information? • A Student’s permanent record. • Student’s family history • Past schools attended • Discipline • Medical Information • Grades • Assessments/IEP’s • Past teachers and parents.

  8. Other Artifacts • Getting to know you activities (BINGO) • Ice Breakers • To test a student’s ability and gain knowledge of previous learning (Pre-Tests) • Classroom discussions relating to students • A home questionnaire

  9. Developmental Aspect • Where are the elementary students academically, mentally, and emotionally compared to older students? • A Teacher needs to recognize this and meet the needs of his/her students.

  10. Cultural and Gender Differences • Often times these factors have an impact on learning in the classroom…including religious beliefs. • It can affect the teachers plans. • A teacher may make accommodations as needed.

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