Essay about Creating Diversity in the Classroom

America now is a very culturally diverse nation; most of the minority and immigrant population lives in cities, which indicates that the public school classrooms in urban areas are full of versatile cultural identities. According to the 2000 Census record, minority and immigrant populations has grown in increasing numbers, and most of those people live in urban areas and attend public high schools; also, the level of residential segregation still remains as high as in 1990, which proposes new problems for immigrants and minorities. Monocultural schools are very rare and the global society is very multicultural; it is very logical to prepare students in schools to enter this diverse society (Le Roux 48). Teachers are largely responsible

Cultural Diversity and Inclusion Diversifying our culture in the world is extremely critical in order to propel to a brighter, better, and fairer future. This became quite essential since the rapid technological advancements led us into the new age of having a globalized society. To keep multicultural alive for future days to come, we must teach our younger generation, specifically the children, about its history and impact in our lives. What other better way to do this than to incorporate cultural diversity in children’s books. These books are the best way a child can gain an understanding about oneself and about the world around them.

Children’s literature is an effective teaching tool for children but also a way for children to escape their daily lives through fantasy. Didactic material can be used to teach life lessons, manners and morals where subversive and fantasy genres can allow children to release from daily expectations and allows an outlet for their large imaginations.

As I walk down the halls of Denver South High school, I see many flags draped down the ceiling with many faces that identify with those flags. Since freshman year, all I’ve heard about South is that they have a very diverse population. However, I don’t see the diversity everyone talks about. I see flags that have been disturbed by hands that are privileged and don’t know what it’s like to be labeled as a minority. As a student here at South, I want the student population and faculty to understand that diversity isn’t just a number. Diverse student should be included in all parts of the system, not just included to make South look good. It infuriates me to think that our amazing diverse students are exploited for advertisement for the school. I am a Nigerian-American that believes there is a problem at South: we accept students with diverse backgrounds only when it benefits the school.

The diversity found in public schools are those who speak another language other than English, come from different cultural backgrounds, are different socioeconomically, have learning disabilities, physical conditions, have different sexual orientations or genders. Students that are not straight, European American, and come from a comfortable or high socioeconomic status, resulting in private schools or have accessibility to paid for tutoring, are not always at arm’s reach for help or proper resources regarding their education at home or school, in some cases. These students face challenges and overcome them in a plethora of ways.

Moreover, teaching multicultural diversity in preschool ages increase children’s awareness, appreciation and inclusion of diverse beliefs and cultures. It means that children with different needs are giving opportunities to participate in the general education curriculum based on their ages and grades. Those children are not separated by classrooms, but rather the curriculum and the rooms are conformed to meet their needs. Research shows that children are capable of understanding differences and abilities of surrounding people at the very early ages (Perlman, Kankesan, & Zhang, 2010). Therefore, a program, which fully regards to multiculturalism, allows children to explore varying cultures and create opportunities for them to recognise that even when people have various customs and traditions, they often share some similar characteristics as well. The ability to function compatibly and efficiently in a multicultural society is also promoted throughout a multicultural program. It is obvious that children are able

As a freshman that is entering an English 1301 class, I happened to study about the rhetoric essay and how (the or a) student could take part in a group of people with shared knowledge and similar ways of communicating about those goals. Being assigned into teams for water pollution after becoming a member in the Environmental Organization had assisted me with the knowledge of water pollution (logos); organizing, overcoming anxiety and gaining credibility (ethos); and developing an open-mind (pathos). In this essay, I will prove to the audiences how the group I joined in my high school in Viet Nam had helped me create a foundation to join other organizations and be more active in the communities later on.

In this article, Suzanne M. Kauer states that she believes that every parent has the right to choose whether their child will or will not read a book. Kauer believes that it is important to understand and respect why parents don’t want certain books to be read, without forcing the rest of the class to abide by the same rules. She also mentions that there should be more of a focus on why we’re reading these particular books anyways, and that we should create more diversity in the authors and characters presented in our curriculum.

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

Literature is one of the biggest ways that student learns about the real life world, and problems that they can face. Teachers and children should be in control of what the students read, not the parents. The community should trust their teachers, they know the curriculum and how to teach them and the students won’t be able to learn what is bad in the real world. Except the parents might not want their children to know about words and concept at young ages. The community and parents have no right to decide whether students read books or not.

Ethnic segregation is when race, or social class is either enforced or voluntarily separated in restricted areas. Ethnic segregation is more common on colleges and universities campuses than most other places in the world. Back in the 1900’s segregation was inhibited among most everything you do once you step outside your house, the whites and colored weren’t aloud to do anything together. They couldn’t share the same public restroom areas or public water fountains due to the thought that black people were colored because they had diseases, they couldn’t walk through the same doors or sit on the same side to get into a movie theater, and they couldn’t even have actual conversations with each other, and in some cases colored people would get taken to court for not addressing whites as “sir or “madam”. An article written by Amanda Nguyen said that “The slaves were not treated with respect, they were beaten and whipped by their masters if they were to do something wrong or if they were to disobey commands”, these kinds of actions and types of separation caused extreme barriers or invisible lines/walls that are rarely crossed by people in our society today. These barriers produce the loss of uniqueness and talent among both groups of people, as well as individuals. I strongly believe that differences and diversity should be celebrated as a chance or opportunity to be able to stand out as well as the chance to educate each other about the creation of man and woman. According to a document that was written by the history channel on their website gives information on the reason America had almost split apart during the Civil War, and since then reformation and hard work has been the reason this country has stayed as one.

When setting up your early childhood classroom there are several ways in which a teacher can introduce diversity and inclusion of everyone’s cultures. First, include books, posters and other materials that reflect various cultures and ethnic backgrounds. Additionally, don’t include only cartoon images of people and children

The quality of representation affects how people understand themselves and others in the world. It helps people of marginalized groups understand themselves while normalizing their existence and validating their humanity to people unlike them. Books have the power to change individuals and shape entire societies. The Harry Potter series, vastly popular across the world, is no exception. A generation of readers and more grew up with the books, and an aspect about the books that have and will likely influence people is the representation of different social groups and the relations between them. People that identify with underrepresented groups benefit from quality representation because it, at the very least, validates their identity and helps

The types of books children read can either reflect whom they are and they can relate to the characters (mirror) or it may bring upon a new perspective while the child will gain a new understanding of the world (window). The types of literature that we encourage and provide our students to read are very important. Providing diverse literature for our students and having diverse literature in our classroom has been an educational mission for many years, due to the lack of multicultural literature students are exposed too.

By the year 2050, nonwhites will represent close to half of the U.S. population, according to the U.S. Census Bureau projections. By 2005, the ethnic minority share of the workforce is expected to grow to 28 percent, up from 18 percent in 1980 and 22 percent in 1990. Although the African American population is now the largest minority group, the Hispanic and Asian populations are growing much faster. In 1994, the African American population was estimated to be 33 million, or 12.7 percent of the total population, up from 11.7 percent in 1980.