Oh my goodness, I logged on today to find that my post from last week did not get published! So while it may be late, I would still like to get my reflections on the internet.

I think that cultural diversity in the classroom is one of the most important parts of being a teacher. This goes double for those of us who will be teaching TESOL, since we will have students from a multitude of different cultural backgrounds over our years as teachers. I was not lucky enough to be exposed to multiculturalism as a child, since my school was pretty homogenous, but I did get a look at some different cultures in high school. The transition from having had no exposure to people from different cultural backgrounds to being dropped into a very multicultural high school was shocking. I wasn't really sure how to behave, so I can't even imagine a teacher trying to enter into a multicultural classroom without having any prior exposure to that sort of environment. We should really strive to get some experience dealing with people from other cultures so that we will be better able to deal with them in the classroom.

My final project is going well. I've done a little but of research into different types of websites that I could create and I have a lot of ideas about what I want to include on my website. The main problem that I am encountering is money, since I really can't afford to purchase web publishing software or a proper domain name. I have seen a lot of teachers use wikispaces though, so I am going to look into that now.