Monday, November 15, 2010

How can diversity in the classroom help me be a better teacher?

    Diversity in a classroom can help me become a better teacher tremendously. Diversity can help me create new ways of teaching, incorporating everyone's cultures and making them interested in learning. Teaching their a students interests is always helpful. It's not just diversity of race, but diversity of my  students learning ability that will help me become a better teacher. Schools are becoming more and more racially and ethnically diverse. I learned this from the Chapter 2 reading assignment. The only way that teachers will be able to teach such a wide variety of students to adapt our teaching abilities to those of our students and not just regular standards. We must go above and beyond, and get involved with not just the students but our community. If we don't know anything about the community our students live in then how will we know our students or what they go through. I learned a lot of integrating myself into the community by going to the talk in Lincoln Auditorium with the Teacher of the Year panel, on Involving Parents in Your Classroom. The Chapter 3 assignment was also helpful in understanding how I can become a better teacher through diversity in my classroom. Not only will having diverse students help my students learn about the different cultures within their classroom, but it will also present a way for my to integrate culture into my curriculum with the students help. They can give me prime examples of their cultural differences, giving my students a first hand experience as well as me. Yet, if not all my students are getting along because of the diversities, what am I supposed to do?

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