attending to student learning profiles enables efficiency of learning
Enabling students to work in a preferred learning mode makes the learning process easier. When learning challenges are already huge, it is sensible to allow students to work in ways that best suit them.
Principles of differentiation in response to student learning profile:
- Various classroom features, including environmental, emotional, sociological, and physical features, can influence both student attitude about learning and learning itself. (Dunn, 1996).
- Students' own neurological patterns can affect how they learn. When a classroom is a mismatch for a student's needs, that student is likely to struggle in school (Levine, 2002).
- Intelligence manifests itself in a variety of spheres. There is a benefit to addressing a learner's intelligence preferences in instruction (Gardner, 1983; Sternberg, 1985).
- It is important for classrooms to provide a range of materials, processes, and procedures for learning so that students from many backgrounds find them comfortable and effective places to learn (Educational Research Service 2003).
- A person's gender can influence the way that person sees and interacts with the world-including the classroom.
- (Tomlinson, C., & McTighe, J., 2006 pg. 181).