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EDUC 364 Jingpei Wang Reflecting on Personal Narrative Culture shapes our identity and influences our behaviors. Living in California has been an open-minded journey for me because of diverse cultures, lifestyles, and people’s thought. Although, I learned to adopt the positive of a new culture and abandon the negative ones. It seemed like I could easily lose my cultural identity while I am accepting a new culture. However, After I took the class I even feel a greater appreciation on my own race, ethnicity and culture. I think my identity will never change. I will always consider myself as a Chinese because my own culture has shaped me into who I am no matter where I live and whom I married to. Upon reading my personal history narrative,†¦show more content†¦Nieto Bode mentioned that young people felt the need to de-emphasize their identity, culture, or language in school. Yet this de-emphasis may have had negative consequences for their learning. (Nieto Bode, 2008) I became more proud of my origin and background. Especially throughout this semester, my perspectives on race, diversity, and equality have altered to a better understanding. I become more proud of my own culture and being who I really am. Also, I learned that as a teacher I should be more aware of culture diversity in classroom. I should take my diverse background as an advantage because it helps me to â€Å"design an appropriate instructional strategies to ensure equal outcomes for diverse students.† (CSU San Marcos, 2017, p.4) I realized that accepting differences and valuing diversity is what helps me become a more dynamic and flexible as a future teacher. Especially when it comes to teach a diverse classroom, recognizing pluralism and divergent perspectives on educating students is the foundation of designing effective lessons and instructional practices for diverse students. (CSU San Marcos, 2017, p.4) If a child has a hard time to show his or her real identity, it will be misleading for teachers to design an appropriate instructional activates. The refusal to acknowledge differences often results in schools and teachers labeling children’s behaviors as â€Å"deficient† ( Nieto Bode, 2008) I think my experience and my diverseShow MoreRelatedPersonal Narrative Reflection Paper1234 Words   |  5 Pagesin the same year or program, just having a buddy made the walk to and from fun, and made me more motivated. Same thing applied for the gym; that was prime time for me to see certain friends ( shout-out to my friend who basically worked as my free personal trainer)! I even had days where I didn’t get to spend a lot of time with someone, so they’d pull their mattress into my room and we’d have a sleepover. 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