I then returned to New York City where I decided to attend Stella and Charles Guttman Community College, The City University of New York’s first new community college in more than 40 years. I was apart of the inaugural class of 300 students, which with regards to race/ethnicity was composed of 25% of Black students and 55% of Hispanic students. As a student here, there was much emphasis on the importance of diversity and on building relationships within the community. Here at Guttman, I was editor for the fashion section of the digital newspaper. I also became a peer-mentor, which meant I was doing well academically. Eventually I graduated Guttman with an Honors Associates in human service, and I also become a Guttman Scholarship recipient. Continuing my education, I decided to transfer to Lehman College where I declared a Social Work major and an Early Childhood Education minor. I realize that my background affected my
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I understand that I have lived through the theorist perspective of a salad bow and not a melting pot as I have always lived where there is large concentration of specifics groups. For example when I was living in upper Manhattan I was mostly around Dominicans and other Latinos and when I lived in Stroudsburg I was mostly around Caucasians. And then at Guttman most of my peers were predominantly Black. To put in another way my position is that although, I have been relatively surrounded by specific groups, overall I think these transitions have helped me become well rounded and understand the importance of diversity.
I think my personal experiences in school might affect how I will teach or interact with children because I think if the aspect of diversity would have been taught to me at a much younger age I would have been equipped to conduct myself in an appropriate manner through my different life transitions. I think as an aspiring teacher, I would like to make a large emphasizes on
I understand that I have lived through the theorist perspective of a salad bow and not a melting pot as I have always lived where there is large concentration of specifics groups. For example when I was living in upper Manhattan I was mostly around Dominicans and other Latinos and when I lived in Stroudsburg I was mostly around Caucasians. And then at Guttman most of my peers were predominantly Black. To put in another way my position is that although, I have been relatively surrounded by specific groups, overall I think these transitions have helped me become well rounded and understand the importance of diversity.
I think my personal experiences in school might affect how I will teach or interact with children because I think if the aspect of diversity would have been taught to me at a much younger age I would have been equipped to conduct myself in an appropriate manner through my different life transitions. I think as an aspiring teacher, I would like to make a large emphasizes on