Reflection: Human Relations Class, And Service Learning Experience

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As my days at Kindergarten Gap come to a close, I have been reflecting a lot. Between this Human Relations class and my service learning experience, I have learned how diverse of a society we live in. I’ve observed many sources of diversity at my service learning site. It has been a real eye opening experience. Throughout the last three months, I’ve observed diversity amongst ethnic group, ability, gender, and social-economic class just to name a few. Being able to see diversity first hand at my service learning site has made me not only grow as a future teacher, but as a person.
At my service learning site, there about thirty-forty kindergartens. One of the major differences I observe is the diversity amongst gender. Even though there is an equal amount of boys and girls, I’ve observed some differences. The boys I’ve observed, tend to always get snack. When they are done with snack, most decide to play in the free play room or …show more content…

This diversity issue is one that is hard to observe, because you don’t want to speculate ideas about a child and their family. We talked in class discussions about some of the things you can assume about families and children if they are in poor socio-economic standing. Some of those things include, clothing, poor health, respect for authority, and education level. One of the reasons I wanted to note the diversity amongst socio-economic status, is over the last three months I’ve kept my eye on one girl. She is always dressed in very nice clothes, is always happy and energetic, but I found out a few weeks in, she lives with her mom and grandma. Her mom is currently a college student, working two part-time jobs all while going to school. With this example, I have learned going forward, not to judge or speculate things about my students. One of the best things I can do for this diverse issue, is to have good communication skills with the

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