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Cultural Diversity Reflection Paper

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Signature Assignment – Reflective Paper
In the past six weeks I have learned many new things about Cultural Diversity. As a future teacher I am aware of the challenges that I may face regarding diversity in the classrooms. This course has prepared me with the knowledge I will need to be successful in my classroom. There are many different type of challenges that can occur but some of the main challenges are, equal learning environment for my students, gender roles and sexual orientation, and bulling and discrimination. Our world today is a place of many uncertainties, but I believe with the proper knowledge and willingness to work past these challenges we can overcome the issues and move forward. Within the last year we have a surge of race …show more content…

Students all learn differently and many times they may feel like they are not smart enough. “However, effective teachers do not allow students to fail.” (Gollnick & Chin, 2016, p.56) As teachers we must adapt and overcome the standard way of teaching. We need to be able to be flexible and tend to all different type of learning styles. For example, in our district we deal greatly with students that come from Mexico, many of these students come speaking only Spanish. Many of these students I have found are very smart, but they struggle with the language barrier. As a teacher I would like to be able to communicate with them in both English and Spanish so that I can be sure they are getting the information and are able to process the information. Our jobs as teachers is reach out to those that struggle, these students may struggle for many assorted reasons but the purpose of us as teachers is to be that helping hand that can make a difference in their lives. We are not to pass judgment on students, our job is to educate regardless of any differences our students may have. If we find that a certain group is doing poorly we need to find the problem and correct it. We can not allow our students to fail if we know we have not tried every possible

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