About me and my blog

For the last three years I have been working toward an Elementary Education degree from Michigan State University. My focus has always been Language Arts, however just recently I made the decision to pursue an endorsement in TESOL (Teaching English as a Second Language). Throughout my educational career I have gained much information regarding diversity in education. Coming from a non-diverse school it has been important to me to understand diversity and how to incorporate it into my own classroom. This is one of the major reasons I have enrolled in TE 448, Issues of Diversity in Children's and Adolescent Literature. I feel that at this point I understand the need for diverse literature in the classroom. Each classroom will be comprised of students from a variety of backgrounds, may it be race, religion, or class. I feel that throughout high school the majority of diverse literature I was exposed to, if any at all, dealt with racial differences alone. I feel that I need to be exposed to the methods in which to choose rich and meaningful diverse literature, because not all diverse literature is good. If I am going to make the attempt to incorporate diverse literature into my classroom I need to understand what categorizes good diverse literature. Throughout the semester I will be exploring several examples of diverse literature and questioning it as I go. One thing that I feel I really want to gain from this course in diverse literature is to determine how many different types of diverse literature exist and where I can find them.