Hunter Blair

Guest speakers are an effective way to bring about real-world experience and application to the classroom setting.

Learning preference helps increase engagement when instruction is tailored towards those mediums preferred by the instructor's audience. 

Language is a reflection of culture and that is why it is so integral to the teaching environment. What you say and the language you use affects the classroom culture. 

Culture vs Race is a false dichotomy that can create division in perception when addressing the needs of a student. An awareness of both culture and race allows teachers to be cognizant of their audience. But it is not a culture versus race argument but a culture AND race awareness.

interaction amongst different audiences calls for different things. A teacher needs to tailor their pedagogical practice to suit the correct audience. 

Service learning is a way to build community and create relationships among the public. There was not too much information that was new to me, but merely reinforced the significance of service learning. If you want something real and tangible for student buy-in, service learning might be the way for you. 

It is nice to read about how to phrase community service into a learning opportunity. The better you can tie place and people to learning, the better and clearer buy-in you will have from your students.