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Valuing Student Differences

Discover practical strategies to create a welcoming environment, provide individualized treatment, ensure full participation, increase motivation, and promote fairness for a diverse student body. Learn how to overcome cultural, gender, and age barriers to enhance student engagement and learning outcomes.

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Valuing Student Differences

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  1. Valuing Student Differences Chapter 10 McKeachie, 2002 Portfolio Table of Contents (link will only work if in “view show” mode

  2. Traditional College Student? • Students older than 22 • Women • Minority Enrollment

  3. Recruitment & Retention • Students need to: • Feel welcome • Feel they are being treated as individuals • Feel they can participate fully • Be treated fairly McKeachie, 2002

  4. Feeling Welcome • Classroom Environment • Overt & covert cues • Slang • Terminology • Acknowledge • Different perspectives • Technology

  5. Welcoming Curriculum • Ethnicity • Example: Indians in history • Sexuality • Social Group • Example: extreme piercing & tattoos • Gender

  6. Welcoming • Display authentic concern • Attend to terminology preferences (within reason) • State diversity is valued (and mean it) • Personalize classroom interactions • Enrich content with different perspectives McKeachie, 2002

  7. Individual Treatment • Stereotyping • Within-group differences • Hispanic, Mexican, Puerto Rican, Latino • Asian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Taiwanese • Tokenism • Mentoring relationships • International Student Associations

  8. Full Participation in Learning • Classroom Gap • Worldview (perspective) • Dominant classroom culture vs. culture of other students • Nursing vs. academia • Learning Styles • Culture & Gender

  9. Barriers to Overcome • Physical & Learning Disabilities • Age Differences • Increasing opportunities for full participation • Awareness • Vary teaching styles • Evaluate from multiple perspectives

  10. Increasing Motivation • Establishing inclusion • Developing attitude • Enhancing meaning • Engendering competence

  11. Being Treated Fairly • Individual students • Individual conversations • Clear expectations • Socialization of culture • Too quiet or too demonstrative • Order & routine WITH variation of perspective

  12. Conclusion • Welcome students • Treat them as individuals • Encourage full participation by all • Treat all students fairly McKeachie, 2002

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