Diversity

Before coming to IUP, I had always been told about the problems our society faces with diversity but I had never actually experienced any of them. I was raised in the very small town of Nicktown, Pennsylvania where everyone was Caucasian and mostly middle class. When I came to IUP, I was introduced to many different races and social classes. My first semester I joined the National Service Sorority, Gamma Sigma Sigma and became really good friends with girls from all different types of backgrounds. I think that Gamma Sigma Sigma and other groups around campus are really promoting diversity through social action. They do not discriminate against ethnicity, social class, sexual orientation or gender and they make sure that everyone knows they are welcome. As an education major, diversity is going to be a part of my classroom. I know that I am going to have both male and female students and that they are probably going to have different social classes, ethnicities, and sexual orientations. For this class, I would like to either explore if a student’s sexual orientation affects how well they do in the classroom or explore teen pregnancy and it’s affect on the student’s schooling. I will most likely run across both circumstances in my classroom so I believe both topics would be relevant.