What is Difference?

Difference can take on a vary wide spectrum such as race, gender, ones social status in society which plays an important part in the class rooms because everyone does not learn at the same pace.  For example there are those who come from low-income families who do not have the advantage of students from middle class environments, thus learning for them will be somewhat difficult and vary challenging.

Sometimes conflicts may arise with the student and instructors based on attitudes and feelings of inadequacy based on how the students may feel that the instructor is being partial or leaning more toward the upper social status students than the student who comes from a mediocre background.

Thus the instructor has to be very creative in his/her abilities not to let their personality become a factor when dealing with their students.  They have to make sure that each student is given equal opportunity to learn at his/her on pace and respected for who they are and not their social status in life.

A good instructor is one who will take advantage of the differences that the students bring to the class room and will make valuable application of this factor by pulling out of his/her students that its okay to be different because variety is the spice of life, thus it make life more interesting and the fact that we can learn so much from each other because we live in a multicultural society thus, “creating multicultural learning communities”. ( Sonia Nieto, 1999).