Student Diversity

Step into a classroom in America today, and one of the first things anyone will notice is the differences in the people. Ordinarily, it is, racial diversity, physical difference or a variety of student engagement that people notice first, but it is obvious that each student is unique in their own way. Irrevocably due to differences each student has different needs and dreams that the face every day. Furthermore, as an educator, it is essential to hone these individual differences to foster an inclusive learning environment that promotes each student to meet high standards. Nevertheless, in my personal education, I experienced a great amount of diversity due to the school system I was in. With the diversity also came a great deal of failure …show more content…
This course provides information and strategies to provide appropriate music instruction to a diverse group of students including, students with diverse cultures, and students with learning disabilities. This information facilitates how I will conduct and educate my students in relation to their cultural experience. Furthermore, an encounter to explore student diversity in this course includes the project Delving Deeper on Vision Loss (Artifact 1). This project provided the opportunity to take personal ownership to explore and understand how Vision Loss may affect my students. Consequently, this artifact displays a summary of the knowledge I gathered during this exploration, including disabilities that potentially appear, how they may affect student participation, including behavior, and accommodations accessible in a music classroom. Furthermore, I gained an immense amount of knowledge and understanding to facilitate growth and achievement in students’ who face the challenge of Vision Loss. Additionally, the experience to explore challenges that may affect my future students motivates me to value every opportunity I have to work with all students. Each opportunity to work with a student will add new tools and techniques to benefit my future students. This information gained through experiences like this will impact my …show more content…
As displayed in Artifact 1, students may face physical challenges. These challenges may require different accommodations but Physical disabilities are not the only differences that an educator may face in the classroom. Students in urban schools may experience a large quantity of violence or be exposed to aspects of life that is not developmentally appropriate for them. These challenges will affect the classroom very differently and often hard to identify what accommodations are appropriate for these challenges. Additionally, no matter how great the challenge is to provide the accommodations any learners’ difference may call for, I will strive to ensure that my students can perform to the best of their ability no matter the