Chapter 2: Today's Students

America is known as the melting pot and it is quite common for several, if not dozens, of languages to be spoken in a single area of the United States. As future teachers, we need to realize that the number of students with English as their secondary language is constantly increasing and we need to be able to accommodate for this influx. Another rapidly changing aspect of students in the United States is that of their religious beliefs. Because of the free religion belief in the United States, there could be students of multiple religious beliefs in a single classroom. Teachers need to make sure the any specific student is not discriminated against or let behind/alone because of their religion.