Diversity

Throughout the article, “Diversity, Learning Styles, and Culture” Pat Burke Guild offered a lot of important insight on current challenges teachers and schools face when they do not keep diversity, learning styles and culture in mind. For example throughout the educational system, sometimes we are a little guilty of simplifying learning styles. If one student does not learn the content you’ve presented the way the rest of the class has, and begins to display behavioral problems, then that student is automatically labeled at a “problem child” simply due to the fact that their teacher is unable to differentiate instruction to fit the learning style or comprehension of that specific child.


Guild also offered some essential tips to teachers, one of them being to keep in mind student’s cultural backgrounds. Because everyone in an individual human being, everyone experiences life different, and has completely different outlooks on the environment around them. As a teacher, it is important to take these cultural backgrounds into account, especially for me when I am presenting social studies. I think that keeping culture in mind is important as a teacher because a simple disagreement could be solved with an understanding of where another person is coming from, specifically a student. Culture can also explain attitudes or behaviors that a teacher may not understand due to their own cultural bias.

This article served as a good reminder that every student a teacher encounters in their teaching career will most likely be different than any other student they have had, so it is important to treat and teach students as though they are individuals, and as though they are deserving of your highest quality teaching, providing them with an educational experience that they will never forget and use throughout their life. 

http://education.jhu.edu/PD/newhorizons/strategies/topics/Learning%20Styles/diversity.html