The Importance Of Diversity In The Classroom

One important characteristic as a learner that I have is that I love to talk to people, specifically people that are different than me, that can tell me a different story than what I have heard before. Although my demographic research does not necessarily show how I feel about the lack of diversity, it does show that there was a massive lack of diversity in my high school. Even though there was a lack of diversity, I still found myself interviewing four Korean students. These were possibly the only ones to have a drastically different story than me in my high school. The benefits of that interview have carried with me as shown by the MSLQ. I believe that my score in peer learning, which was almost double the average speaks to my love now to …show more content…
I wonder what my life would look like now if I was exposed to more diversity at that time. I attribute some important changes that I went through as a learner to diversity. Because of that, I wonder how much better of a learner I could be if I was exposed to more diversity in secondary school. Although all my other listed questions in my summary are worthy of study. Two stand out among the rest. First question is, “What effect does exposure to diversity have on a secondary student and their strategies in critically thinking?” The second of the two questions is, “Does exposure to diversity in secondary school have a correlation to the career path a student chooses?” It is clear, by reviewing my previous projects, that I have a connection to diversity and that diversity has effected my development as a learner. Because of that, I think it is a subject much to valuable to go under researched. I hope to find answers to these questions that may give me a better idea of what was happening to me as a learner during my time in high school when some of these events were taking