Tuesday, December 4, 2007

diversity

Diversity is something very important in our society today. Diversity consists of different people coming together to be able to learn and work in the same environment. The different forms of diversity consist of culture, race, religion, socio economic status, gender, interests, sexual orientation, learning styles, disabilities, languages, and even their strengths and weakness. In the past people with these differences were not able to feel like they worked or learned in a safe environment. I think that our society today has changed since then. There is some people that don't believe that things should be diverse, but in today's society everyone has so many differences from each other and i believe that we should be able to except these differences as part of them, and not judge the person by their ability or inability. In the movie "Freedom Writers", the teacher was able to get her students to look pass each others differences and they all felt like it was the safest environment that they have ever been in. They like this so much that they all fought for the teacher to be able to be their teacher for the following years of their high school career. They learned how to work together to get what they wanted. I want the children in my classroom to be able to work together no matter their differences, and i want them to be able to feel like they are safe in my classroom.