March 30, 2008

Personal Experiences,
Content Standards,
Classroom Information.

As part of the homework requirement for Multicultural Issues, students respond and reflect on a variety of assignments from their textbooks, Gollnick and Chinn's Multicultural Education in a Pluralistic Society and Kroeger and Bauer's Exploring Diversity, including scenarios, news reports, and questions posed on class situations and personal experiences.

Many students' responses expand on the basic questions by connecting to their personal experiences, to the standards in their particular content area, or to classroom information. These students have agreed to share their work on their student pages. I invite you to take a moment to read these extended responses.

The latest postings include Jeff Holland's response to the questions on page 23 in Exploring Diversity; Megan Murry and Anthony Halter's responses to an issue in Chapter Five of Multicultural Education in a Pluralistic Society involving Section 504 of Public Law 93-112, which concerns individuals with learning disabilities; and Sarah Applegate's response to the effects of gender on classroom learning and behavior from Chapter Four of Multicultural Education in a Pluralistic Society.

February 10, 2008

The Ideal Effort:
Thorough, Thoughtful,
Academic, Well-Written

For Assignment Video 1a, students in the Multicultural Issues class watched a video, "A Teen's Video of Growing Up in the City," about a young African-American teenager and his friends living in a dangerous neighborhood of Chicago. Students responded to six questions about growing up and being educated in such a challenging environment. Angela and Jessica's responses met the target criteria for being articulate, thorough, thoughtful, academic, and well-written. Their examples provide the class with the ideal effort in showing what they know and think about responding to the assignment.

Links to Student Pages

 
Sarah White

 
Jessica Fay

 
Scott Lampkin

 
Shane Hampton

 
Julie Allard

 
Jazmin Carranza

 
Angela McCutcheon

 
Jeff Holland

 
Anthony Halter

 
Megan Murry

 
Kendra Jones

 
Marilyn Titus

 
Michael Figueroa

 
Coty Nichols

 
Sarah Applegate

 
Sarah Glass

 
Justin Keen

 
Luke Davis

 
Maria LaNear

 
Jessica Skordal

 
Megan McGrew

 
Beth Tucker

January 14, 2008

All about You!

These pages are for you. They provide the opportunity for you to express your views and ideas about multicultural issues.

Be Creative
And Earn a Bonus.

Let's begin with an opportunity to be creative and add a personal touch to your student homepage. I've designed a BONUS POINTS project to allow you to express your self image. I encourage each of you to create a visual that represents you in relation to multicultural education (MCE). The visual will become your personal web logo for your student page.

The logo appears at the top left of the page. For example, the Multicultural Issues homepage features a cube, a symbol of unity in diversity. This page displays an illustration with four hands and an eye. Check out the other logos on the website to help you decide what's appropriate for you.

You can draw your logo, scan a piece of artwork, provide a photo or an illustration for our webmaster to scan, create a computer graphic, or let us choose if you are pressed for time.

I will award you ten bonus points if your logo reflects the principals of MCE and you include a brief summary of why you chose your logo and how it relates to multicultural issues. I will award you five bonus points if you submit an image without any summary. If you don't have the time or the inclination, that's fine — but no bonus points will be awarded.