The University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA) is hosting ten students from Europe for several weeks of study of education in the US. They're from Germany, France, Spain, and Denmark. Some are already teaching. One of the themes is diversity education and they're getting a mix of classroom presentations and field trips to schools. I got to work with them last Tuesday and go back tomorrow. Last week we discussed Power and the power implications of lecture and participatory teaching methods. The requirements for the German students was that they had to be immigrants or from immigrant families in Germany. (Last year the group was all Germans.) The other countries made that optional but did require an interest in diversity issues. Here they are in class writing down the answer to "Who was your best teacher? What did the teacher do that was so good?" The responses tended to be combinations of caring about the students, being genuine, and knowing the subject.
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