Diversity in Classrooms

              

                In todays’ world classes, there are many students who are from different cultures. Their physical features, personal skills, dresses, the way they use the language etc. are different and they bring these differences to the class. So the teachers should be aware of this situation. They cannot differentiate the students. They should know how they contact with the students, how each student learns and how transfer the information for each student. Because, every student is individual and they have differences in their life, learning skill, reading skill, social life. That is, teachers should behave based on student expectations, because their behaviors affect students.  So the teacher has to deal with students with diverse. I can give some examples that giving immediate feedback, creating more opportunities for practicing, reinforcing appropriate behavior, rewarding, punishing etc. for dealing with diverse students. They need to think their students and find alternative solutions to deal with them. Also, the teachers should give an importance for this problem, because the emotional intelligence is too important for the students. In some points, EQ is more important than cognitive skills. It is related to individual things. Because of having specific features for each student, I can say that every student can learn, react, do differently. That’s why the teacher has to give an importance to the emotional intelligence and diversity problems in the classes and use some theories, solutions which provide alternative ways for students.

                It can be faced in many countries classes. For example, in America there are many students from different cultures and there are some serious problems. Everyone know that there is black and white discrimination in America. This situation can be also encountered in classes and the teachers should definitely find a solution to solve it at least in classes. In Turkey, there are also many different cultural people. So there are variety of students in classes. There can be students who don’t know the educational language in classes. To avoid that the government should take some precautions. The education system of the Turkey must have a sufficient number of teachers and charge them all area of the nation. With that way, all students can learn the language and continue their education life.