Learner’s Characteristics and Needs
Learner characteristics is a concept that revolves around how the student learning experience is influenced by
personal, social, cognitive, and academic elements. It's presumed that these aspects play a pivotal role in both
how and what students learn.
Identifying and meeting individual learner needs boosts their morale and encourages them. ... As such, when the
teacher provides individually prescribed instruction (IPI) it significantly helps many learners to understand and grasp
educational concepts.
How do learners develop characteristics?
5 Ways to Build School Character
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Teach Listening Skills. Learning how to listen will improve your students' characters and can also help them
do better in school. ...
Encourage Kindness and Consideration. ...
Discuss Respect. ...
Promote Self-Esteem. ...
Instill Motivation.
The Six Pillars of Character are trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring, and citizenship.
Teachers can identify those needs of their students that relate to their well-being, and recommend learning goals that
are appropriate to their students, in a range of ways. For example, they can do so by:
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observing the students' behaviour;
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assessing the students, formally or informally, to determine their current knowledge, skills, and attitudes,
and then noting the needs revealed by the assessment information;
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discussing issues with the students and asking them questions;
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discussing the students' needs with their parents or caregivers;
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talking to the students' previous teachers and reading the information they have provided about the
students' learning achievements;
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considering the content of the key areas of learning and the achievement objectives at the levels that
students appear to be working within;
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using diagnostic tools to confirm that these levels are appropriate for the students;
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reviewing their own teaching practice and reflecting on the effectiveness of their programmes (including
their teaching and learning approaches);
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referring to the school's mission statement and strategic plan;
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referring to the latest review of their school by the Education Review Office;
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keeping in touch about local community issues and wider issues that affect people's well-being (for example,
about the lack of a suitable place for local skateboarders to practise or the use of drugs among local young people);
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talking to colleagues, attending conferences, and reading research to keep in touch with nationally identified
issues relating to health education, physical education, and home economics.
Sound planning should enable all students to learn in all the key areas of learning, to meet relevant achievement
objectives, and to develop essential skills. However, plans also need to be flexible so that teachers can capture
student enthusiasm and capitalise on unplanned events and teachable moments.