Intro to Education

The diversity that I see the most in my service learning placement classrooms, is diversity in academic abilities. I get to see how both of my teachers help gifted students and students who are struggling. My 6th-grade placement teacher addresses these concerns by doing something called "face in the hole". She will have students do a problem on a whiteboard and then go over the problem on the board. After she has gone over the problem, she will say "face in the hole" and the students will all put their faces down on their desks. Then she will tell them to hold up a 3 if they got the answer correct, a two if they got it right up to a certain point, or a one if they did not understand how to do the problem at all. This system allows the teacher to see who is struggling with that area and focus on them. It also allows the aide in the classroom to be able to know who they should go help. This is just one strategy that this teacher uses to help acknowledge academic diver...

In my service learning placement, I have seen the importance of the Brown vs. Board decision. Brown vs. Board was a court case that decided that there should be no segregation in schools. I have a student who is African-American in my service learning placement class. It is crazy to think that a little over 60 years ago, she would not be able to be in this class. I love walking around the school and seeing all of the different ethnicities that the students are. The coolest thing that I see in class regarding students of different ethnicities, is how none of the students care about it. They do not see each other by the color of their skin but rather by their personality and the way they act. This is in part caused by the fact that student of different ethnicities have the opportunity to interact in schools, unlike the past. The diversity helps the class to be able to grow and helps to teach the students about how to deal with differences. I have also seen evidence of how the ...