chapter 2

While I have always understood that I will have children from all different cultures and backgrounds in my class room, I had never really put much thought into how that would affect my potential teaching methods. Reading this chapter gave me a better understanding on what I might come in contact with during my career. I need to be sure and not only look at the surface culture but look into the deep culture of all my students. This all plays such a major part in the way students learn. There was a part in the chapter that I found really interesting; when they were talking about a question that was asked to Native-American students about “Who discovered America?” The correct answer according to the test maker was Columbus. Of course that would not be the answer a Native-American would give, their ancestors were here long before any European Settlers arrived.
One thing that I am trying to do is build a large library for me future classroom and after reading this chapter it puts more emphasis for me to make sure I have plenty of multicultural literature. I want to have books that my students can relate to so to do that I need to have many choices. I also want to give the students of different walks of life the opportunity to read books that my give them knowledge about others around them.