Collaboration and community involvement in supporting diverse learners

Cooperation is the default mental state of the human mind. A young baby will perish without the cooperation of others. It is an inherent trait within the way we can manage our way through this world, and when collaboration and cooperation are absent, strife, confusion and general unpleasantness is sure to follow. The purpose of this essay is to describe how my school environment uses and approaches the idea of collaboration as it applies to diverse learners. This ideas will be expanded upon by also discussing the how parents and community members contribute to this idea. This essay will conclude with comments on how schools and teachers can enhance collaborative learning environments that are supportive and breach the principles of education.

Diverse Learners' Social Emotional Needs

It is important to understand that diverse learners' emotions and the emotions of everyone else are no different. We all hurt, smile, cry and laugh. What is important however, in the social emotional needs of diverse learners is how to communicate and receive communication about emotions. My school environment, is blessed to have open minded faculty who understand this concept and do not pity a diverse learner, but rather look at it a unique challenge to reach out to these students in different ways that improves the system.

Ideas for Action

As a school teacher it is important to always keep an open mind and try to take the approach of nonjudgmental awareness. By not trying always to put things in right or wrong category, and just letting them be, supplies an approach that does not try too hard nor ignore the reality in our faces. Schools and teachers need to become more observant and assume more humility in their understanding of the world. To suggest that as adult teachers that we are not in school to learn is to set a bad example for the students. Only when we embrace learning as a life style can a supportive learning environment truly flourish.