Multicultural

Your presentation was super duper. At the beginning, I was hoping that we would do more than one activity, but the first half hour–when you three were talking–was actually really interesting. It's obvious (I hope!) to most students going into the teaching profession, that being aware of differences in students and ourselves is a basic but powerful way of getting to know how students and learning the best way to educate them. I would have been interested to talk more about the labels that we assign different groups of people and why we feel the need to label. I think that labels, in a big picture kind of way, are silly, but that it's inevitable that they will be used; we should learn the appropriate labels and the ones that are most comfortable for our students.

Your activity at the end was really fun. I generally don't enjoy being left out of the loop (like not knowing what my forehead says) but it was funny and really interesting to hear how other people described certain words or occupations or stereotypes. It seems like it would be a good activity for a high school classroom. It might open a can of worms, but it could also ease tension in the class or educate students about their peers.

Well Done.