Matt Healey's Multicultural Education Portfolio

1. PICTURES (source: http://www.dailyjournal.net/2016/10/03/information_exchange/) 1. Entrance: I feel it is a small, yet, powerful reminder that the students are entering a foreign language class and that they will now be immersed in and speaking German.  I feel that I will establish this idea in my classroom that as soon as the students cross the threshold of the door, it will be 99% German. RE-IMAGINED CLASSROOM:   I still feel that the door is something that needs to be a powerful reminder about the class and that the moment one crosses the threshold, it is German speaking time.  However, I think it is also important for the students to not only feel like they are entering "my classroom", but theirs as well.  I feel it would be cool to add a word that they feel represents them to the door (in German of course), and that way they will feel like they are coming into an environment that they contribute to.   2.  Partner/ Group Discuss...

1) This book was such a good and interesting read for me.  It really opened my eyes to not only the privileges that I have, but also to the awful and depressing circumstances that so many individuals in this country, a first world country that claims to be one of the best, find themselves in.  I had several disruptions during the reading of this book.  One of the original disruptions I felt was when his mother enrolled him in school, she was told by the administrator that "there were no white classes, only black, hispanic, or chinese."  The choices allowed to them were restricted mainly to their race.  This left me completely dumbfounded.  Another was the story of how only he did not experience corporal punishment, but everyone else in his class seemed to because they were black and he was white.  His teacher didn't feel right hitting a white child, because they are "spoiled".  This disrupted me because I grew up with the mindset that as long a...