Question

The world is smaller than ever. People regularly play online games with people across the country and across the globe. We watch breaking news occurring on other continents in real time. Why is it useful in a classroom to have students with a wide variety of backgrounds and perspectives? Why is it useful to have diverse perspectives at work?

Answer 1

It is useful in a classroom to have students with a wide variety of backgrounds and perspectives as the integrated classroom environment helps the students to learn to collaborate and communicate with the different cultures and backgrounds found in the 21st-century work environment. Diversity prepares students for citizenship. Diversity leads to diverse skills in a teamwork, which can be used to harness for contributing and add value to the team efforts. Diverse teams have sufficient mind power and problem-solving skills. Discouraged team members can be motivated when other members of the team handle a situation positively.