Student Diversity

Theme: How Individual Differences Affect Learning.

Overview of Concepts:

• Intelligence, IQ, and development
• Giftedness and Creativity
• Cognitive Disabilities
• Emotional, Social, and Behavioral Disabilities

Learning Objectives:

• Describe Spearman’s two-factor theory
• Describe what IQ tests measure
• Describe the influence of environment and heredity on IQ
• Intelligence as it relates to giftedness and creativity
• Identify characteristics of the gifted
• Meeting the needs of the gifted
• Identify characteristics of creativity
• Describe cognitive disabilities and how they are identified
• Describe emotional, social, and behavioral disorders and how they are identified and interventions