My Classroom: An Intertextual Analysis

Thinking back to my past, I realized how little exposure I had to diversity while growing up. I lived in a nice town known as Richfield, Ohio where many of the families had money. The school in which I attended, Revere Local Schools, was primarily white. There was only a small handful of African American students at my school throughout the entirety of my grade school years. The larger minority group of students was Asian American or students of Middle Eastern descent. Growing up, I often wondered where these students were from and assumed that they were not from America because they looked different from myself.
Throughout my first few years of elementary school, I was best friends with a girl that was Korean. We were very close and I have …show more content…
Over the years, as a college student, I will be collecting items to place in my classroom one day such as posters, books, shelves, etc. I will use these items to decorate my classroom and to make the learning environment for my students fun and exciting. I plan to include an abundance of books in my classroom that can be categorized as a multicultural genre. Multicultural texts allow students to learn about other cultures and informs students about the similarities and differences that they have from their classmates. My students will be assigned desks that are seated in groups with their other classmates. This will allow for students to work collaboratively together in my classroom. I believe that students learn from other students just as much as they learn from the teacher, so therefore I want to have a lot of group work incorporated into my lesson plans. Continuing with the idea of working together, I plan to have close relationships with the other teachers in my school as well. I understand the importance of students working together and learning from others as well as teachers doing the same with their