The Importance Of Diversity In Education

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When you are working with students you need to develop lessons that respect all the children's culture, ethnicity, and race whom are enrolled in your classroom. As a preschool teacher, I like to make it fun, when teaching lessons. For example, we ask the children about their culture, so we can add things to the classroom discuss. “By including the child's home ethnicity, language into the school as well to be able to assist the child with their culture and their own ethnicity, so they can have equality of learning in the classroom The strength of the Commonwealth will be a direct function of the capability of public schools to provide an adequate education to all children, regardless of race, ethnic background, social or economic status or…show more content…
Many concerns in the classroom are culturally created. Due to experiences in the classroom, I choose to explore this current issue I have in my classroom. Meaning that families have beliefs, whether they are positive, negative, racial, or hatred, they are being of the home. So, in this case we did have to speak to the parents, grandparents, and the babysitter to see where this was coming from. Unfortunate, the child's father blamed the parents of the mother, so we talked to them and they felt that this was a family issue. So yes, as you said we need to respect family views, but we also need to respect all children, adults, and individuals that are in our presence in the center. "Accommodations should not give an advantage to students but provide students an equal opportunity to demonstrate knowledge of skills" (Hallahan, Kauffman, & Pullen, 2015, p. 55). With that being explained, we had to explain to the mother, which she was the…show more content…
By empowering the students that they can assist in the planning design in the classroom, gives them an interest in learning. Since I work with young three to five-year-old students, I need to find an area of interest. "If students' differences are ignored, then students will probably receive instruction not suited to their needs. They will likely fail to learn many skills, which will in turn deny them power and opportunity in the larger culture" (Hallahan, Kauffman & Pullen, 2010, p. 56). My experience is that when you allow the children to speak they get excited. These observations led to deep concerns about whether Massachusetts had the human capital system needed to ensure a prosperous future (Blankstein, Noguera, & Kelly, 2016, p. 186). Then learning through play and discussion, enables them to have the desire to
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