Moreno

The main purpose of Moreno's Essay was to highlight how much of a difference race, cultural background, and different languages can affect the classroom. Secondly how even students from an upper social class can be affected by being more than one culture. Students on a daily basis go into the classroom and create a sense of individuality due to what fits them in their world around them. When I read reading such as these it makes me more aware of how are schools systems really do not adjust the learning curriculum for multicultural students who are just coming into a new environment. As future educators we have incorporate in our classrooms and embrace all of the different cultures that will be in our classroom.

Moreno touches on how language and writing is so essential because no matter what race or culture this is how humans communicate with each other. As teachers we need to realize this and really stress it in our classroom because parents send their children to school to learn, and they trust you as a teacher to give them the best education possible to succeed in life. In Moreno James Balwin makes a comment such as, we have to undo much of the wrong doing that was done in history for minorities. I never really thought about that until I read this. As far back as i can remember if you were anything other than a "white American" your education was little to none. Minorities still today do not always receive the best education due to lots of reasons but we as educators need to be the ones now to make a difference. Most students who come to school are ashamed because they feel like they do not know as much as the others. We have to make it our jobs to really enforce reading and writing to help them further advance.

In my opinion no matter what race, background, gender, or social class you may be from everyone deserves the best education and should be able to read and write just as good as any other student. I would use the "Social Constructivist Approach" in my classroom. By doing so you can learn the background of students so you somewhat know what you are getting yourselves into. Before the school year started or maybe on the first day of school as homework I would send home an “About Me Sheet" the students would be asked to fill out with parents. By going about this approach you can ask detailed questions that sometimes some would be offended by.