Gives advice for English teachers faced with the increasingly multiethnic makeup of their classrooms. Discusses what rainbow teachers must not do along with what they must do. (HB)

Gives a narrative memoir of one English teacher's positive experiences spending part of summer vacation in a multicultural island community. (HB)

Gives an overview of the problems and issues that might be faced by both teachers and students of color in today's schools. (HB)

Describes the diversity of spoken English in high school classrooms in America. Advocates coming to terms with matters of language diversity. Suggests ways that this might be accomplished. (HB)

Describes the diversity of learning styles and intelligences that students bring to the classroom. Suggests ways to reach a variety of learners and provides the implications broadly speaking for education at large. (HB)

Discusses a method developed by a teacher to help students improve their language proficiency while at the same time enhancing their understanding of the literature they read. Considers how to use learning modalities different from traditional reading and writing. (HB)

Describes how one English teacher discovered the complex differences in nonverbal communications among her students. Argues that a proper understanding of such cultural differences can enhance teacher/student relationships and classroom harmony. (HB)

This book offers suggestions to public school teachers for reaching the alienated and culturally disadvantaged student. The rationale of the book involves three major assumptions: (1) that only an open and accepting attitude toward students will earn their trust, (2) that a teacher should have high expectations for culturally different students,…