Diversity in my service learning placement plays a huge part. Based on what I can observe as well as what I've read about the demographics of the school. Students in the class are diverse in race, ethnicity, language, religion, family structure, and social economic status. As well as exceptional students and gifted students.
One of the ways I've seen my service learning teacher adapt to these diversities is in morning meeting. The students have a chance to learn about each other through prompts. Each day the students greet each other and have a question that they get to go around a circle and answer. This has been fun for the students because they get to learn about each other. I've noticed that the teacher will ask follow up questions to the students to get them to expand on their prompt. For example a student said they had a birthday party that weekend. The teacher asked what activities they did, what food they had, etc. This helped not only the teacher, but the students understand the culture that this student is a part of and how they celebrate.
Another thing I've notice that my service learning teacher does is they have center based learning in the morning. This keeps the students busy, while she has time to do reading groups. She then gets the chance to work with students in small groups and one on one. This can really help exceptional students that may struggle with dyslexia or other learning disabilities.
Besides, just what I've observed in the class, I have also noticed that the school has additional volunteers or employees that come and take students for individual reading or reading groups. While I have noticed a lot of diversity and things that are being done to accommodate all the diversity. I like that my service learning classroom has a sense of unity. While they may be different they focus on how they are alike and how they can work as one.