Illegal Immigration: This is a huge, controversial topic that I find is often overlooked. Continue reading
Illegal Immigrants – So What’s the Big Deal?
Multicultural Practicum
Wait…You Don’t Speak English?
Last week I went to Storm Lake High School for my Multicultural summer class exploring diversity in education. Storm Lake is a school in an incredibly diverse city that changed my perspective on both ESL and becoming an English teacher. Continue reading
Get Out of Your Comfort Zone – Serving at a Community Kitchen!
As a part of my two week summer class, Multicultural Practicum, me and my classmates went to the North Iowa Community Kitchen to help serve. We did this as a way to connect to the local community and to see how community can play a huge role in the schools. Continue reading
A Trip to Waterloo!
I’m currently enrolled in a 2-week summer class, Multicultural Practicum, which focuses on diversity and culture in education, and ways that teaching can adapt and be changed by the environment of the school or the students.
Today we headed to Waterloo, Iowa to see a community struggling with diversity, and working to adapt and change for the growing, cultured community. Continue reading
