Blog E-Diversity

Diversity means to me a bunch if different things that get mixed together. I don’t really know a lot about diversity, I just know how I feel about it. Junior year of high school I had a history teacher who was very passionate about how rude we were to the Native Americans and Blacks that we discriminated against. Since then I have been very interested in the history of education and how diverse we once were. I believe that if we were to be taught at a young age what diversity is and learn about people who are different, than we would be more accepting to the different things that make this world unique.
I know growing up in school that if someone was different we would simply poke fun probably because we didn’t know why this person was different or how to handle the new situation. I realize now that this should not be an acceptable behavior, just because someone is different doesn’t make them any less of a person than I am or anyone else. I believe that if we start introducing diversity at a young age for the children, that as society grows older, people will have a better understanding where or why things are different.
One idea I have to simply place the idea that diversity is ok for a kindergarten age group would be to compare things together such as fruit. Simply bring up the idea that all fruit looks different, but we don’t judge the fruit and we eat it all the same. I think just incorporating little ideas like that at a young age would be a great way to get the students into the rhythm of knowing about diversity. Just because something looks or acts different doesn’t mean they’re not human. This is a mistake I made when I was little, but then again no one ever taught me different until I realized it when I got older.
I would be very excited to teach in a diverse classroom because imagine how much knowledge you would learn from everyone’s background to their daily lives. If I had a diverse classroom I would like to discuss if I could the differences and the similarities that each student possesses. Through this I feel that bonding would begin and that students would have a better understanding of the world today and how different everyone is.
I realize that being a twin everyone always assumes that you are the same person. This actually gets degrading because people look at you like you are one person, when really we are two very different people. Obviously we do have some differences, but not many people look at us as though we are different people. I feel that diversity should be highlighted as a main point in education and that it should be taught as a positive and not a negative. My goal in my classroom is to make sure that no matter what is going on in a kids live that he or she comes to school not afraid of being different, but excited to learn about everyone’s different personalities or backgrounds. I feel this would Eliminate the confusion of why people are different and it would give students a better understanding of others.