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Lesson 2 - Know your learners

The document outlines teaching approaches for educators, focusing on understanding learner diversity and the importance of differentiated instruction. It emphasizes the need to adapt teaching strategies to meet individual learner needs, including their backgrounds, learning styles, and abilities. Additionally, it discusses methods for checking prior knowledge and filling content gaps to enhance teaching effectiveness.

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Lesson 2 - Know your learners

The document outlines teaching approaches for educators, focusing on understanding learner diversity and the importance of differentiated instruction. It emphasizes the need to adapt teaching strategies to meet individual learner needs, including their backgrounds, learning styles, and abilities. Additionally, it discusses methods for checking prior knowledge and filling content gaps to enhance teaching effectiveness.

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Programmes

PGCE & BEd SP & FET


Modules
Economics Teaching, and
Economic and Management Sciences

Lecturer: Dr Bongani Ndlovu


Office: Academic Building
Office: 109
Know your
learners.
It is assumed that learners must be
able to demonstrate:
 an ability to think logically and
analytically
 an ability to transfer skills from familiar to
unfamiliar situations.
 Experience [exposure]
 Socioeconomic status
It is  Culture and ethnicity
known  Language
that  Behaviour
 Learning style.
Learners
 Aptitude [mental abilities]
vary in:  Physical abilities [disabilities]
 Etc
i. Asking stimulating questions
The
ii.Telling a story to arouse the
educator learners’ interest
can iii.Demonstrations
determine iv.Simulation [imitation of a situation
the pre- or process]
knowledge v. Audio-visual aids
by: vi.Posing a problem.
Checking i. to identify the nature of learners in
your class.
prior
ii.To measure the content knowledge
knowledg of learners
e will help iii.to establish if there are any
the content gaps
educator: iv.to teach better by using students’
ideas and contributions
 Acknowledgement- Taking a student’s
correct response and repeating it to
the class (to increase lesson clarity)
Teach  Modifying- using a student’s idea by
better by rephrasing it or conceptualizing it in
using your words or another student’s
words (to create instructional variety)
students’
ideas and  Applying- using student’s idea to
teach an inference/implication [a
contributio conclusion reached on the basis of
ns (1/2) evidence and reasoning] or take the
next the next step in a logical analysis
of a problem (to increase success
rate)
 Comparing – taking a student’s
idea and drawing a relationship
Teach between it and ideas expressed
earlier by the student or another-
better by student (to encourage engagement
using in the learning process)
students’  Summarizing – Using what was said
ideas and by a student or a group of students
contributio as a recapitulation/summary or
review of concepts taught (to
ns (2/2) enhance task orientation)
Gaps

• What if gaps are identified?

• How can gaps be filled?

• Filling the gaps through teaching.


(Inclusivity and Diversity
Teaching approach:
Differentiated instruction-
Diversity

A related approach to responding to


your learners’ individual differences
(differentiated instruction) To
differentiate instruction is to
recognise an individual student’s:

 Learning history
 Background
 Readiness to learn
 Interests, etc
Teaching approach:
Differentiated
instruction- Diversity
What can be differentiated to make
instruction more responsive to individual
needs of learners:

1. Subject content – teach different content


according to developmental stages of
learners
2. Teaching strategies -use different
teaching strategies for different groups of
learners. [use teaching strategies that are
appropriate for a particular group of
students).

• Assessment- different assessment


activities for different groups of students
(consider Bloom taxonomies).
Teaching Approach-
Inclusivity –
Adaptive teaching

Responding to the whole class with different


abilities.

• One approach to achieving a common instructional


goal with learners whose individual differences- such
as prior achievement, aptitude, or learning styles-
differ is called adaptive teaching. Adaptive
teaching techniques apply different instructional
strategies to different groups of learners so the
natural diversity prevailing in the classroom does not
prevent any learner from achieving success.
Teaching Approach-
Inclusivity –
Adaptive teaching

1. The remediation approach – the remediation approach


provides the learner with the prerequisite knowledge,
skills, or behaviour needed to benefit from the planned
instruction. [computer skills, Turnitin]
2. The compensatory approach – using the compensation
approach, the teacher chooses an instructional method
to compensate for the lack of information, skill, or
ability known to exist among learners by altering the
content presentation to circumvent [avoid] a weakness
and promote- a strength. You can use pictures instead
of words, prescribe additional reading material for
specific content.
Thank you

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