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1. Personality dispositions-Some of the personality dispositions of learners that the teacher needs to understand are the following: emotionality, sociability, and ability to cope with stress and even learners’ management of problem situations.
There are learners who have serious problems managing anger, frustration and other
emotions they experience and as a result learning is affected negatively. Also there are
those pupils who have problems making and keeping friends due to deficiency in social
skills. They may be in constant conflict with peers and classmates a situation which will
affect learning for them and their peers. Coping with stress and even managing problem
situations cause difficulties for some pupils. Basically, the teacher should be aware that if
there are problems emanating from any of these issues, learning will not be promoted.
2. Intellectual Giftedness- Learners bring to class differences in intellectual giftedness. There is the high, the
average and low intellectual giftedness. Sometimes a teacher may run a lesson that favors
the highly gifted learners. It is the intention of this lesson to remind the teacher that every
learner has the right to benefit from classroom interactions. Every learner should be given
a chance to benefit from the lesson. The view that the classroom is owned by a few
learners while the majority of learners is there to warm the classroom for the gifted ones
should be discarded. The teacher should cater for individual differences to ensure that
every learner is attended to.
3. Conflicts of interest- Sometimes learners fail to attend to the learning task even when the teacher is doing his
best to promote conditions for learning. This can happen if the pupil has other interests
that conflict with the learning tasks. Sometimes the pupil has a problem that is social in
nature, may be he has received news from home that somebody is unwell or there is
disharmony. During the lesson those home issues distract this particular learner. May be
the pupil has quarreled with a friend or has been wronged by another and tends to focus
his interest in this direction other than to the ongoing lesson. There are many things that
could distract a learner at any one time and the teacher should handle each issue with a
lot of sensitivity.
4. The Social Economic Backgrounds- The pupil’s social economic backgrounds is a factor that will influence learning one way
or the other. Some learners come from backgrounds where they have few resources that
are needed for learning. They may not have books or writing materials or even adequate
facilities to do their homework or further study. When these pupils come to school with
unfinished work, untidy work or even late, the teacher should handle each situation with
sensitivity because at times the teacher’s approach to a problem may actually aggravate it
instead of easing it.
5. Motivational Levels
Motivation refers to the amount of energy and the time the learner puts in an activity. A
learner may be highly motivated and therefore spends a lot of time and energy pursuing a
subject. Another learner may have only average motivation while yet another learner may
lack motivation completely. The teacher should discover ways and means of maintaining
the high levels of motivation in highly motivated learners. He should also find out why
learners may lack motivation to pursue a subject
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