The Lab School Helps Foster The Intellectual, Social And Emotional Growth Of Students

As a member of several clubs and organizations, I have always valued the wide range of people you can find within the walls of my high school. If you walk into my Physics lab, you will find me collaborating with a dancer strongly involved in his cultural heritage and a volleyball player in the engineering academy. If you come to my Calculus class, you will see me calculating derivatives with a football player, a snowboarder, a National Honor Society officer, and a painter. The word “diversity” is often used to describe a cross-cultural population, but it is so much more than that. At Bartlett High School, students originate from hundreds of different cultures, with an abundance interests, and participate together in an assortment of activities.

Throughout the county we have a diversity management team that helps with a lot of outreach programs for better understanding of different cultures. The concept of diversity encompasses acceptance and respect. Recognizing our commonalities as well as the richness of our differences. These can be along the dimensions of race, ethnicity,

The mission statement “to foster in our students a belief in their individual strengths, a love of learning, and a respect for self and others, all in a safe, positive, and caring environment” encompasses the belief all students are teachable. The principal embodied this mission statement, with shift

As we continue up the learning curve, we would explain to the students how diversity encompasses so many factors such as race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, religion, color, creed, national origin, disabilities, socio-economic status, life experiences, geographical

The success of the labs is not just based on understanding and performing the required work with the labs, but also the

The afternoon of March 20, 2016 at 1 pm I sat in the classroom 303 of Brewster B Wing awaiting Dr. Powers to begin her instruction on what would be happening in the Community Lab. We viewed a video that reiterated information that was addressed in the interviewer-training manual, Dr. Powers answered any questions that we had, and then we proceeded to the research lab.

Each semester provided information that allow students to learn while information was repetitive to get us to fully understand and retain. The three topic the were interesting in this course were diversity,

“…build a collaborative learning community that challenges all students to excel academically, celebrate diversity, express creativity, and experience real-world curriculum connections.” (About Us, 2017)

Our mission is to facilitate rapid learning in a secure, positive, and challenging environment to individuals from diverse backgrounds that are resilient, adaptable and enthusiastic learners.

Promoting diversity in the classroom has become a necessity in today’s ever-diversifying society. Diversity can refer to socio-economic background, religion, gender identify, sexual orientation, race, or ethnicity among other possible identities. Over the past twenty years or so, the use of multicultural education, in particular multicultural literature, has become a commonplace form of diversity promotion in the classroom. Multicultural education refers to any sort of education or teaching which takes into account the the values, beliefs, histories, and perspectives of those from varying cultural backgrounds. Here, culture, “in the broadest possible sense, [encompasses] race, ethnicity, nationality, language, religion, class, gender, sexual

Wade Edwards Learning Laboratory: The Wade Edwards Learning Laboratory provides the middle and high school student community in Raleigh, NC with opportunities for achievement, enrichment and service, in preparation for personal and academic success. In speaking with one of the program facilitators that promotes wellness and personal success in her female students I have identified an opportunity to do a mock workshop and focus group in order to tailor the motivational comic to my target market’s liking to assure ultimate grasp of the concepts that will be covered in the book and workshop

Since every topic is different, we must also understand that diversity is different. There are diversity modules to teach diversity, but one size does not. Fit all. Here we will look at the specific demographics of our region for our students and our faculty and staff. We will look at the retention data, and see our bench marks. Here is also an opportunity to allow participants to here from other diverse people and their thoughts on diversity.

As a school community we strive to focus all our actions towards a shared vision or mission for the school. Indiana Content Standards for Educators, School Leader – Building Level state in standard 5 that “School building leaders develop a school-wide culture of achievement aligned to the school’s vision of success for every student.” Focusing on this mission makes our instruction intentional and purposeful; we know what we want our students to learn and create clear expectations that will allow this learning to take place. We cannot do this alone. The whole school community needs to work together with this focus. Parents, faculty, and principal all must work together in order to teach the whole child. Faculty who collaborate with one another “create genuine learning communities.” (Hackney 390) Each member can learn from one another to best meet his/her students’ needs. Parents too must be a part of this community. Everyone needs to work together toward the shared mission of student success. When every member of the school community is playing their role in the mission, the

Racial inequality and ethnic differences have been an issue in public schools since the time public schools were founded. The foremost step towards addressing diversity in schools should come from the curriculum itself. Involving different ethnic sports and multicultural festivals at schools would mark the beginning of an attempt to combine students from diverse backgrounds into a bond of institutional unity. Moreover, including prominent historical annals derived from different ethnicity as part of a collective study of world history would encourage students to get familiar with each others ' racial, cultural and ethnic differences. Rather than letting diversity come in the way of education, the importance of diversity should be upheld.

Dr. Seuss once said, “Don’t give up. I believe in you all. A person’s a person no matter how small.” I believe education is a unique experience for every child who enters a classroom. Each child is unique and deserves a safe and secure classroom with a teacher full of passion for each child’s education. After classroom experience and observing many inspiring educators, I have created a personal philosophy that includes goals for my students, a method for enacting the goals, and assessing students’ goals to ensure proper development of each student. I have a desire to support each student to reach their fullest potential. I strongly believe in every student and my students will know that.