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03 SES 05, Curricular Attention for Student Diversity
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Contribution
Human being has attempted to generalize to others the emerged knowledge and information through different means. In the contemporary world that science is characterized with complexities and ambiguities, and with numerous aspects of scientific information, teachers and those in charge of education have important roles and responsibilities to play in using the tools for transition of information, knowledge and sciences, considering the diversification of intelligence, genders and other personality characters of students. Most teaching strategies and approaches have been identified through scientific experiences of science teachers who have taught and been trained in their whole teaching career. Learning by doing, learning by imaging, learning by watching the real things are to be considered important in an educational system. There is need to make things easier for students to understand therefore, trainees should be placed in a real environment created artificially to prepare them facing with real world and identifying it. Through the using simulation in instruction teachers can come to have vital effects on students' learning and narrowing the gap between students' academic gain according to their diversities of gender and the other individual differences. Therefore, the simulators are used as training devices to closely represent realities but in which the complexity of events can be controlled. The degree of simulations used depends on a way of using them in curricula. The simulations/spiral teaching approach is considered to be appropriate for teaching educational supervisory text and gaining its technical skills, therefore in this study, the model of teaching is explained and the its effects on increasing learning of diversified graduate students in Islamic Azad University (Science and Research Campus, Tehran) is examined. The students were taught according to a scenario made on the base of the approach. Then, the instructional effects were measured based on the Behrangi 72 indicators on quality of instruction, using the students as observers. Still, in the third phase of the study the quality of nurturing effects of the approach were discussed on the base of 150 indicators on nurturing effects. Finally, there were a comparison between the means of genders and the other personal characteristics in this experimental group and the control group using t-test and chi2 research methods and analytical discussion approach. Findings indicate the significant difference of means between the two groups in favour of the new approach in teaching. Based on the findings of this study, indicating a significant effects on learning and narrowing the gap between genders, and other personal characteristics in learning and since the study limited to the semi-experimental and case study with limited number of students in a graduate course on educational supervision, therefore, the need to extend the study to the other subjects in science education is recommended.
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References
Joyce, Bruce; Weil, Marsha, and Calhoun, Emily (2009): Models of teaching, 8th ed. Pearson com. Rowley, Jennifer (1994): Strategic management information systems and techniques. Ncc. Blackwell. Wiles, Jon; Bondi, Joseph (2004): Supervision, a guide to practice, 4th ed. Merrill, com
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