Diversity Professional Development Project

For my Introduction to American Education I have to do a professional development project after choosing an important standard from the North Carolina Teaching Standards. There are five standards, and I chose to do my project on the second standard, which is "teachers establish a repsectful enviroment for a diverse population of students." I chose to make my project about making my classroom a more diversity-friendly place. I would strive to focus our studies for the year around the topic of diversity. I would do units all throughout the year focusing on different geographies, locations, countries, and cultures. I would aim to have all of my students have a better understanding of different places and people around the world. The main point of this unit would be to educate the children on how to respect diversity and people globally. A few other ideas i had were to teach english in under priveleged countries. Another idea would be to have "counselling" groups and base it on diverse students.