This paper addresses three possible topics for student journals, multiculturalism, inclusion, and how to make conferences more effective. The author suggests activities for each. This nine page paper has five sources in the bibliography.
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Perry Glasser (1997) recalled the comments of a hard-working single mother in his first year of teaching in 1969, at a time when lectures were "rap sessions"
and subject matter was thought to need to be "relevant" to students lives. The janitorial worker asked, "To get your job, you have to read Shakespeare, am I right?
The hard stuff. Am I right? ... So what I wants to know is just why the school keeps sending my daughter home with all this crap ... She knows
bout landlords. She knows bout gangs and whatnot. She needs to know what she dont know" (Glasser, 1997; p. 504). A portfolio approach
to assessment seems to be useful in cases in which educators and parents appear to be at odds over students experiences in class or the subject matter explored. The
contents of the student portfolio can aid in bringing focus back to the student, where it belongs. Years ago, demographic estimations concluded that
by 2000, minority students would account for a third of all US school students, but that only 5 percent of their teachers would be minority members as well (Urban Education,
1995). It has been demonstrated that more ethnically sensitive teachers can better understand a diverse classroom population. Activity
Perry Glassers (1997) experience of 1969 is still common today, at least as far as ethnic and racial differences are concerned. Likely, not many parents
are as plain-spoken as this mother was, particularly given the language differences that now are so prevalent. Adding a group meeting of parents