I teach primarily sophomores in New Haven, CT a city with over one hundred and twenty three thousand residents whose average salary is approximately thirty-five thousand dollars a year. Throughout New Haven, over twenty thousand students include forty-two percent African America, forty-one percent Hispanic, fourteen percent Caucasian, two percent Asian American, and one percent other ethnic backgrounds. Many students have never left Connecticut, let alone the city itself. With this, it is hard for the students to grasp the magnitude of many global phenomena unless it directly impacts them. It’s not that they don’t have the ability to understand it, it’s just too foreign of a concept to them. I can pass on my knowledge and lecture all I want, but if the students do not have the desire to learn, then the entire message will be lost. I plan to engage them in such a way that they will be able to relate to the topic and want to learn and interact with the lessons.
