Personal Reflection On Diversity In The Classroom

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1. The class has 19 students: 5 African American, 1 Middle Eastern, and 19 Caucasian. Cassell has paintings along the walls, but he has a lot of white space. The classroom has windows to see the outside interaction, but desk are not positioned too close to windows. He also places quotes and focus questions in the front of the room on the wall, so students know what their goals are and the class structure. One question that was on the wall was: What makes our identities? I thought this was beneficial because along this stage in a child 's life, they struggle with role verses identity. The books that he chooses, focus on identity crisis, but also different ethnicities. Another thing I noticed in the classroom, they all are assigned a computer, and the computer connects students to the world, but also to each other. …show more content…

Observing the teacher/student interaction, the students are highly eager to get involved in discussions. This, shows that they understand and appreciate the material that is given to them. This, caused me to reflect back on my sophomore year in English where we didn 't have much to read that was actually enjoyable. Sure we talked about ethnicity, but we didn 't get to embrace the meaning of diversity as much as he does in this class. He has two sections, the class as a whole, and the four students who make up the honors group. I got to spend some time with the honors group, I could tell the different roles and the different qualities that each student had that compliment each other. Even though the class is interactive, some students still hold back and they do not speak out in class as much as others. Each student learns at different paces, but as a teacher, he keeps them engaged. He may bounce from student to student, but he gives them all equality in learning. If a student does not understand he encourages them to

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