Thoughts on Diversity Lecture

After watching the youtube video about the Little Rock Nine, I was thinking of how this event has impacted my own life. For me it is particularly relatable to my professional life. I am majoring in Elementary Education and a required course is Multicultural Education. Had there not have been desegregation of schools; I would not be learning how to teach students of diverse backgrounds.
In relation to our learning about families, an important aspect of a teaching is getting to know your students. One way in doing this is to learn about family life and culture of the children in your classroom. One important note that I took out of today’s lecture was that as a professional don’t generalize people with their culture, ASK! At first glance this seemed contradictory to what I was learning in my Multicultural Ed. Class. We are studying various cultures and how to adjust teaching methods to make students within that culture more successful. However, in lecture today we learned that there are between group differences as well as within group differences. Culture definitely influences families and how they function, but common culture does not necessarily mean functioning for every family within that culture will look the same.