For any educator, the most challenging situation is to deal with diverse students who carry their intrinsic values and cultural roots into the classroom. Teachers often have to embrace the situation and can either ignore the issue of cultural identity or discuss it freely to stimulate learning outcomes (Thomas, 2009). Discussing a child’s cultural identity can be an exhausting task and time consuming one, but then the benefits are huge. It works in two ways. First, it removes the communication gridlock among the students and faculty members and opens an interactive forum between them. Secondly, it acts as a catalyst in stimulating development of learning skill and outcomes which could not be possible otherwise. So, the interplay of cultural identity development and learning outcomes is important for faculty members understand and effectively implement in the classroom. A classroom is a place that cultivates the basic values and skills among the students and therefore it is important to be open for different challenges at this …show more content…
This makes the task of the educator even more difficult and tedious. Within a learning community there is interplay of multiple factors that inhibit the growth and development of the students. An educator has to address all of these factors for an effective understanding of the cultural backgrounds and gridlocks. The most common risks involved in the process are that students have their own baggage within the learning communities that might inhibit their personal growth and affect the learning outcomes (Grossberg, 1996). If students are trapped in the cultural web, it becomes difficult for them to be open for new ideas and thoughts, which is self-deprecating and dissatisfying to them. Therefore, to achieve a point where there is cultural competence, it is essential to have an understanding of the thought process and cultural dynamics of the