Reflection Of Classroom Diversity

2. Classroom Diversity The class I will be student teaching will be the 4th grade class from 10:20 to 11:05 A.M. Students range in age from 9 to 10 year olds consisting of 14 males and 8 females. There are 2 individual students with IEP 's (Individual Education Plans), 0 ELL 's (English Language Learners), and 9 ALP 's (Advanced Learning Plans). Cherokee Trail 's Elementary as a whole has 9% of the students ' qualify for free or reduced-price lunches. The minority enrollment is 23% of the student body with the majority of the minorities Hispanic, in addition, this is less than the state average of 45% ("Douglas County Government ," 2016). The Douglas County School District is predominately Caucasian, leaving the students underexposed to other ethnicities. Media is a major source of the students awareness of cultural differences. I feel, although they are not necessarily inundated with different cultures and people they still can learn to appreciate different thinking and living styles through media and the learning of art. This becomes the opportunity to integrate and further expose the students to other cultural environments which becomes an interdisciplinary approach to such subjects as history

Then I state, "ears on!" making a clicking sound, and they will all do the same. Last, I will gesture to zip my mouth and say "zip." They repeat the zip in a quiet tone and I now have their focus back. Once the students focus is back, I ask them to raise their hands when responding to my questions and let them know this is their antenna. My insight into this method and why it works for me, is the use of repetition of the behavior management each time. Students like knowing what to expect and this allows me to build respect with the