EDU221DiversityConference

Attend the UMF's [|Diversity Conference]. The panel is from 12:30 to 2:00 in the North Dining Hall and then there will be breakout sessions by school levels (high school, elementary, etc.) from 2:00-3:00. Attend the panel session. If you are unable to stay for the breakout sessions, you may leave at 2:00.

Create a blog entry about the event. Remember your blog audience is the world...people who weren't at the event. So have an opening sentence or statement that describes the event. Tell what you learned about the topic and what you liked/didn't like about the presentation itself. Tell how you see the information from the presentation impacting you as a teacher. Will it impact what you teach, how you teach, the way you interact with parents when you teach,. . . ?

If you can't attend the Diversity Conference due to work or another commitment, find a journal article in a peer-reviewed journal (the nice person at the reference desk at Mantor Library can help you or there are many online through Mantor's Web site) about diversity in America's classrooms, especially about English Language Learners. Write a summary of the article and a review (what were the good and the bad points of the content of the article as well as how the article was written). Post the summary and review in a blog entry.

Title your blog entry "Diversity Conference". Label: CM