Diversity In The Classroom

Poverty is a serious issue which our society and children faces every day. It is a constant struggle that shouldn’t be ignored. UNICEF states “The study of OECD countries in 2007, over fourteen percent of Australian children under the age of eighteen are currently living in households who are defined as poor or with incomes less than half of the median national income”. The increase in the number and percentage of children living in poverty within our society has contributed to making today's classrooms more diverse than ever it has been. This highlights and makes both teaching and learning more challenging. Diversity exists in the students who are living in poverty and the education assistant and teachers must provide the concept of diversity

Students have their own best way in effectively learning the lesson. With the diversity of students, the problem is each student has a preferred learning style. It becomes undeniably one of the reasons that make it difficult to achieve the best expected outcome out of teachers’ effort. However, teachers try to incorporate various teaching techniques to make every learning opportunity become productive, meaningful, and relevant for the learners.

To my surprise, the challenges that the minority students experience in the United States have never crosses my mind. However after going through this article, I bet to concur with all the arguments provided by the authors. It is true the high number of people migrating to the United States have significant impacts on the nation at large. This is because many people have known the things that are happening in the schools regarding the perception on minorities and little efforts have been done to deal with the situation. The message writtern in the article is reiablesince the United States as a nation is facing a problem when it comes to its ability to accommodate people who are moving into the country especially in terms of schooling (Commins & Miramontes, 2006). Additionally, there is also an issue about teaching language were the minorities are experiencing a problem in learning linguistics. The fact that the increasing number of immigrants to the United States has posed a challenge to the school system is also interesting. The discussion about the success of linguistic languages in schools is something that has been in mind for a long time.

The US minority groups include the blacks, Asian Americans, Hawaiians and American Indians. Based on gender, men are the majority while the women are the minority with the religious category including the Muslims, Amish, Mormons and Roman Catholics as the minorities. The class that will be considered and laid emphasis on in this paper is the ethnic classification. The rich cultural diversity that the Indian Americans and African Americans brought into America can be identified through their cultures and how they interact and relate to one another. Through this paper, I will discuss the elements of each culture, compare and contrast the differences and similarities and how the two may interact with the dominant group as minority groups.

My friend is a Chinese-Indonesian, and the first word or image that came to her mind when the word minority was introduced, is culture. Being a Chinese that lives in Indonesia, she has the privileges of learning both cultures. Both Indonesian and Chinese cultures, unfortunately, are very conservative, which is why she said she had hard times accepting the freedom in the White culture. She did not see her race as a minority, because she said, “Asian kids are the smartest, it is just our accent that makes us look dumb.” She also did not receive any racial discrimination before. She supported immigration, and her first image regarding immigration is of her grandparents as an immigrant because they move from China to Indonesia permanently in search

The history of the African Americans, Latino Americans, Native Americans, and Asian Americans contains an infinite variety of experiences. To the Native Americans who founded these lands, slavery, and the waves of migration. What all minority groups have experienced is the

2. What are the cultural disadvantages of being in this linguistic minority and speaking the minority's language?

It is absolutely imperative for educators to understand the perception of "kids do well if they can," rather than "kids do well if they want to," as explained by Dr. Ablon. Despite the significance of this concept, there is still a widespread, incorrect believe that behaviorally troubled children are acting up on purpose. Similarly, it is also commonly accepted that children who do poorly in school are failing because they are apathetic and lazy, when really the opposite is true.

The increasing accommodations directed toward immigrant culture worries many Americans. Americans fear the special treatment granted to immigrants will affect the unifying force of the country. Today, the trend is toward multiculturalism, diversity and adapting the newcomer, rather than on the newcomer adapting himself or herself to a diverse society (61).

1. In the case study, diversity is portrayed through socioeconomic status, race/ethnicity, work preferences, intellect, disabilities, student reading levels, prior knowledge, and if the students are analyzers or non-analyzers. The diversity that Abe is able to recognize socioeconomic status, race/ethnicity, work preferences, intellect, and partially disabilities. On the other hand, he does not recognize diversity when it relates to student reading levels, prior knowledge, and if the students are analyzers or non-analyzers. 5.

The United States is expecting drastic changes in the diversity of its population over the next 50 years. Minorities will become a larger portion of the country’s population. Changes will need to be made to the way our country operates, especially in education. New, innovative and inclusive ways of teaching will replace traditional methods. For these new changes to go smoothly, steps will be taken to implement diverse populations in schools, helping students benefit from the values of other cultures while learning to live along side each other. The competitive and biased curriculums will take back seat to new ones that cater to all members of the population, leaving behind

While some schools are as racially segregated than before Brown vs. Board of Education in 1954, landmark case deemed racial segregated schools illegal; diversity in schools have been the main goal of all schools. In 2006, Orfield and Lee offers statistic demonstrating a racial transformation. Diversity in school have changed the landscape of schools. Orfield and Lee outlines in the school year of 2003-2004, Latinos were the largest minority group followed by the Black/African American community. While some scholars may offer this fact as no surprise it is to be noted that all of the minority groups are growing at a rapid rate in comparison to majority groups, Whites. Classrooms becoming more diverse, teachers must take

Learning about different lives such as lifestyle and background is important for a teacher. It is part of the educational process. It is known that history about the way we live is an influence on history and how we educate students todays. Our curriculum today has a way with providing opportunity and constraints due to addressing issues of different racial of ethnic equality and even diversity. However, due to our curriculum and how students learn academically, these are put into practice, which then divides each learning style into groups so the teachers can then understand the students better. Going back into time, it did not happen this way. So, a lot has changed since the beginning of education. We are now learning how to support teachers and allowing them to teach diversity effectively and in confidence. This is not an easy topic to teach due to history, but today it is normal to teach students the importance of diversity so that they learn that everyone is different in their own way. Dealing with equity and diversity is the new norm. It is an area that we emphasize when it comes to social justice and the continuance of diversification with today’s higher education setting. “From recent court decisions and new legislation to diversification of the profession’s workforce, NASPA recognizes the impact that Equity and Diversity has on our professionals” (NASPA, n.d., para.1). Because of this organization, it provides opportunity, which provides resources that

Diversity in classrooms can open student’s minds to all the world has to offer. At times diversity and understanding of culture, deviant experiences and perspectives can be difficult to fulfill, but with appropriate strategies and resources, it can lead students gaining a high level of respect for those unlike them, preferably than a judgmental and prejudiced view.

As of July 1, 2011, there are 36, 708, 083 people in Canada (Statistics Canada, 2017a). 1.2% higher than the population last year, which was 36, 264, 604 people of all ages and both sexes (Statistics Canada, 2017b). The growth of population in Canada, which in this case powered largely by immigration, increases not only the human capital, but the diversity in every province as well. Hence, as diversity expands, there is also a rampant growth in religion. In 2011, there are 108 religions observed in Canada (Statistics Canada, 2011) - Christianity, Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist, and Hindu – to name a few. These demographics have connotations on how diversity in school is also evident.