DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTIONAL APPROACH: INCLUSIVENESS OF LEARNING STYLES IN BUSINESS EDUCATION FOR SKILLS ACQUISITION IN DIGITAL ERA
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Despite the pivotal roles of business education on manpower and economic development, research findings have continued to show that business education students still graduate without vocational skills, which aggravated the increasing rates of unemployment and underemployment in Nigeria. Many factors have been adduced to be responsible for this regrettable trend. An issue however, yet to be given serious attention to is the instructional approach used by business educators that seems not to have produced the required result. The traditional method that emphasized one instructional method applied to all students without due concern to learner`s characteristics have been grossly accused in literatures of instructional design. The strategies of differentiation are of current interest to educators particularly in the digital era. With increasing pressures of No Child Left Behind, educators are often left wondering if individual instruction is the best instructional practice. The extent to which these strategies impact on student learning is also controversial. Differentiation can be time consuming and tedious on educators. Teachers often struggle to provide all students access to specific learning activities that work best for them and what works best for some students may not work for others. Differentiating instruction makes sense because it offers different paths to understanding content, process, and products, considering what is appropriate given a child’s profile of strengths, interests, and styles. This paper is, therefore, a modest attempt to clarify the concept of differentiated instruction, and acquisition of skills in business education in digital era. The paper finally advocates for and clarifies differentiated instruction approach in business education, approaches of ability grouping and tiering using differentiated instruction in digital era, draws conclusion and recommends among others that,there should be awareness creation by Business educators for the adoption of differentiated instructional approach as a prospect of acquiring skills in digital era in Nigerian institutions of higher learning.
Keywords: Differentiated Instruction, Business Education, Learning Styles, Skills Acquisition and Digital Era
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