Classroom Diversity Essay

Teaching throughout the centuries has brought upon many different challenges for teachers to face. Adding diverse cultures to this classroom environment can sometimes make things more difficult and add to the challenge of being a teacher. In today’s society teachers have to educate students who come from different cultures, speak different languages and have a mix of abilities. There are many different aspects to think about when looking at diversity in the classroom. In this essay I will demonstrate the complexities of classroom management among different cultures in Australia. Firstly I will explore classroom behaviour and the challenges both students and teachers have to face, I will then move onto the attendance of students at school and the lack of resources some students may have due to personal reasons, and how this effect’s the teachers ability to manage and teach the class and the students ability to learn. Finally I will focus on the ability to manage a classroom that has a mix of students who are at different levels when it comes to learning and how this effects not only how the teacher teachers the class, but the effect it has on everyone in the classroom environment. To help me with this I will draw upon Churchill (2013) Teachers making a difference, as my main reference.

It is a teacher’s responsibility to make sure that the student’s behaviour in the classroom is appropriate and well managed, but doing so can be a difficult task. There is often a divide in the classroom between those who want to learn and those who don’t seem too concerned about their education and as Churchill (2013) states “Don’t particularly want to be their”, this can have an effect on everyone (p.56). Students that lack respect towards teacher...

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...er’s should try to encourage and strengthen parents engagement in their Childs school experience, as the student is more likely to want to come to school and participate in work if they have the encouragement of their family members. Every single student has the ability to learn and reach their full potential if they have the right role models there to help them. All these aspects explain how it can be very challenging for a teacher to try and manage a classroom where every student has different learning abilities.

There are many complexities that teachers will go through as they continue their journey of being a teacher, this is just one major difficultly in relation to class management. In order for a teacher to be able to handle this they have to be extremely determined and whiling to do anything to help their students succeed and reach their full potential.