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ddressing the needs of the learners, with different needs and ca pabilities is hard. If you are not well-equipped with materials and knowledge of your subject matter, then it is likely that you will have a hard time teaching your subject matter. As you read, you will be able to get some ideas on how are you going to deal with those students.

In the curriculum that we have today, this is the K to 12 Curriculum. Teachers must find different strategies that will help engage their students in the teaching-learning process. But, before you enter your class and face your diverse learners, you must be ready in dealing with them.

First, you must specify your lesson objectives; in here you will visualize the outcomes that you want your students to do and to be accomplished at the end of every lesson. Using those objectives, you must teach directly using those or else you will be misled.

Then, provide your students with concrete and meaningful evidence, activities or examples. In the classroom discussion, you can’t give ideas that are new to your students without giving examples. As a result, your students will not understand the lesson that you discussed with them. How are you going to achieve this? Provide your students with a lot of examples, like if your subject matter has Mathematics and Science; it is hard to explain a certain concept in Math and Science if you only have few examples, and solving problems can’t be understood by just one sentence. Much better if you relate it to real-life situations were in your students might relate.

Next, after you provided your students a lot of concrete and meaningful examples you will now let them work on their own and you will just be their guide or in short, you will act as a facilitator and give them help if they are still having a hard time in creating their own idea.

Lastly, give them feedback whenever they are sharing their own ideas or participating in the class discussion and also praise them.

As a millennial teacher, be the gardener of your own farm where in you cultivate the minds of your learners’ knowledge and skills. Plant and it will grow.

--oOo— The author is SST-III at Cristo Rey High School, Division of Tarlac Province