The culturally competent teacher is aware of the diverse cultural groups represented in his/her classroom, investigates the sociocultural factors that influence student learning, and is able to integrate this knowledge into his/her teaching. No one enters a classroom without a personal history; thus, no one enters a classroom completely free of bias. How might your personal history/sociocultural characteristics intersect with those of your students? What challenges or advantages might you have as a teacher in this classroom? What misconceptions about various cultural groups have you confronted during this experience?

throughout my life I have learned about other cultures through friends and even now at work (coworks or my students) throughout work I started to understand the difficulties of been poor or been a Single parent.
Most kids in my VIPS all different background and have notice that sometimes some of those studets have a hard time concentrated due to the problems at home. From my experience I have learn that a lot of student go to an after school program (like my VIPS class) due to parent having to work more then one job and or being a single parent. Sometimes this can cause other problem with the child (sometimes children want to spend more time with there parents but they can't so they start to act up just to get their parents attation)
As a teacher, I will need to realize that each and every student will have a different background and different ideas about life.