Understand Diversity In The Classroom

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.

When I choose this class, it was because of the name; AED 225 Diversity, Pedagogy, and Visual culture. The eye catching word was diversity. I do not consider myself to be racist, yet I am judgmental as is everyone else in the world. Diversity is a topic that interests me very much. I like to see other people’s point of views and racial situations they have gone through. For example, when I first entered Woodbridge Public High School I did not know anyone. When I met someone they believed I was Caucasian because off how I look. I was offended when someone thought I was not Hispanic. Therefore, every time I met someone new I asked them what they thought my ethnicity was. I wanted to make sure people knew I was not Caucasian. I do not carry

Programs in school, such as IB, provide teachers with new texts that encompass different languages and culture. This is just one step in helping classrooms become more accepting of diversity and that would also encourage ELLs to take more challenging courses. Using texts that are more culturally diverse would also lead to higher rates of involvement with international students. Overall mentors and teachers play an important role not only in helping ELL students, but also in actively modeling classroom involvement and conduct.

Teachers are currently experiencing a wide array of cultural backgrounds in their classrooms, and current research shows that this diverse population of students in public schools will only continue to increase. These students come from all over the world, and bring with them their diverse cultures. Yet our classrooms environment still continues to

Gerardo Nava is a Hispanic/Latino male in his late twenties, who identifies as a Mexican American as his race, heterosexual, catholic, democrat, middle class, hard-working, married and a father undergraduate commuter student at Brandman University. He is a first generation student who comes from a working class two parent home. He is the third child out of four children. A middle child. Two brothers who are in construction and one sister who is a stay at home mom. Gerardo’s wife has an Associate Arts degree. They both worked as a one on one aide in the Chaffey Joint Union High School District, then became an instructional assistant. The reason why Gerardo decided to move up to become a custodian was he needed a full-time job that paid more to provide for his family. However, since making this transition, it also motivated him to go back to school and receive his bachelor

When it comes to the law, everyone’s voices should be heard. There should be diversity within the law schools if everyone’s voice is going to be taken into consideration. Diversity can be defined as “[…] acceptance and respect.  It means understanding that everyone is unique, and recognizing our individual differences.  These can be along the dimensions of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, age, physical abilities, religious beliefs, political beliefs, or other ideologies.” Lawyers are advocates for the people. The legal system does not work if only one person’s voice is heard. One system that is in place to ensure diversity in the law schools is affirmative action. Affirmative action was established on September

One way that this could be implemented within the classroom to help the student feel more comfortable, and to bridge the gap is by displaying some of their cultural artifacts within the classroom setting, such as books in both their native language as well as English (Vacca, 2015) and maybe one day out of the week during story time have a student read a chapter in a book written in his native language, and have them translated it into the English form, this will assist both the ELL students as well as the other students in learning to speak, and read one another’s language. Yet another way to implement diversity, in preschool we have a show, and tell day on Friday this would be a great opportunity for the students to bring in artifacts,

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

As an educator it is important to respect and value each child regardless of their cultural background and heritage. An educator needs to understand the value of their culture and manage the dynamics of the difference, acquiring and institutionalizing cultural knowledge and adapting to diversity and cultural contexts. Educators and families could start by critically reflecting on attitudes and values, and or the ways in which children respond to diversity in order to examine the extent to which the setting is accessible to families and communities with diverse languages, beliefs and practices. Once an educator fosters this approach it will enable them to promote a sense of community within the child care facility and nurture each individual

Educators need to generate learning environments that foster the growth of each individual student. Being able to give their students equality within their educational setting by having high, yet achievable goals for all students is something that educators need to concentrate on. In the General Capabilities of the Australian Curriculum, it confirms that all young people in Australia are set to become creative individuals, active and informed citizens, and successful learners (Education Services Australia, 2015). Regardless of the student’s socio-economic status (SES), cultural background, or self-esteem, if the student can see themselves progressing this will help build their

It's May 2021, and I'm standing on the podium giving a speech. No, I'm not the president of a club or student body president. I'm the Valedictorian, and as I give my speech, I look out on the crowd of seniors, and see the diversity on everyone's faces. No, I do not see the color of their skin, but the diversity in their hearts. Everyone is their own person and they are all on a path the discover what their life awaits them, and see the joy in the hearts of those whom have already found it.

The American ethnic makeup of its population is evolving as immigrants across the globe seek refuge and residency here in the United States. The change in the diversity can be seen firsthand in the public school system across the states as the children of immigrants are being integrated in the classrooms (Choi, 2011). This increase in multicultural students has been able to influence public policy and syllabus changes to reach the educational needs of students regardless of their ethnicity (Choi, 2011). Hence, the goal of a multicultural education is to provide a level playing ground for all students (Choi, 2011). Furthermore, educators are adapting to the ethnic change in the classroom and are restructuring

Cultural diversity and diversity in general is something that we should champion in the modern age. As a teacher however, it brings challenges to engage and maintain a student’s learning in the classroom environment. As Thomas Jefferson said “There is nothing more unequal, than the equal treatment of unequal people.”

No one can deny the fact that United States is rapidly becomes a more culturally and ethnically diverse nation. If the information from The Census Bureau which projects that by the year 2100, the U.S. minority population will become the majority with non-Hispanic whites making up only 40% of the U.S. population is anything to go by, it is clear beyond any reasonable doubt that we need to prepare the coming generations to comfortably embrace this change (Great Schools Staff, 2015). The subject of social diversity can therefore no longer be ignored since as a matter of fact, its impacts are already here with us. Public schools are becoming more diverse, and both the teachers and the students are feeling the impact. Teachers should therefore be actively involved in preparing their students to be tolerant to this change and teaching them how to interact in a diverse environment.

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