Luthfi’s Review Understanding Student Differences Part 4 Finale

Hello there! Now we are in the last part of this remarkable journal review. In this last part me personally would like to give you the conclusion of this journal. Also, be advised if you are still having any doubt about whether this journal is important for you or not, we suggest you to go back to the first part of the review, try to download the file and read it by yourself and see how important this journal is for you, especially for a teacher. Well, enough with the intermezzo, let us discuss about the final review of this journal. 

This journal brings you all the way of the most troublesome aspect in teaching which is 'you don't know your students properly' then resulting in that you might be give up on them because they can't understand what you said and taught, even some might get mad at students because they did not give any single attention to their teaching at all. Regardless, the true problem lies on that teachers who don't have any awareness about the differences about their own students. Yup, this journal stated that because without proper understanding, teacher would find it difficult to even motivate their students to learn properly in their subject; it use the example of degradation of interest towards engineering department; in English, of course especially in Indonesia we might found most of our students have no interest in English, they just simply have wants, but no actual realization, because they lacked of motivation and we lacked of information about them. 

The situation alone, brought Prof. Richard to write about the differences in student and how we understand it so we could exploit the information in order to optimize teaching and learning session into the best outcome. In conclusion, students have 3 differences which are 

• Learning style
• Orientation and approach
• Intellectual development

Learning style help student to learn with appropriate technique which benefited them the most; if used, student could understand the matter of subject even better and will be resulting in optimal outcome. There are many learning style that learners posses, even one learner could has different styles in different subjects.

Orientation and approach is all about how students regards the importance of the subject, are they learning this subject because the circumstance demands them to do so, or simply because they really want to learn the subject and master it, or they just want to learn it in order to gain higher expectations? With proper understanding of this, teacher would know the motive of their own students

Intellectual development is how students develop knowledge and information, are they going to receive the knowledge and yes acknowledge it without further development, or are they going to learn deeply in order to master and satisfy them self with the knowledge that they have been learning?;

From all of the 3 differences, teacher must understand that: 

It is impossible to provide suitable teaching method for each student that could satisfy their differences 

Yup, there is no way we can do that as this journal regards it as impossible. Teacher, especially in formal school, usually teaches multiple students in many classes; with their own unique differences. Thus, it is recommended for teacher to not be rigid, teacher should teach with different method in each learning session; if in one session one or more students found it that teacher has been teaching with suitable style that meets their characteristics, then they could learn optimally, whereas, student who found it the learning session is not suitable with their characteristics, then they must able to cope and motivate them self , vice versa. This of course, will give students another experience as they learn with different styles and give them more understanding in the subject they have been learning so far. 

Well, that is all, indeed the information is suitable for us and to fortify our understanding on student differences, we are going to learn about how background affects student's academical performance. Good luck and may The God watches over you.