Immigration
Chapter #6- Christensen

I obviously liked the beginning of this chapter because it is so PRO RESEARCH! YEAH! When I first read the title of the chapter I kind of thought to myself either the chapter will go one way or the other. The very first page was definitly what I expected, hinting changing cirriculum for the immigrants within our classroom. Though I sympathize, because it is my job to teach every student that is in my classroom. But, Christensen grabbed my attention, like always, when she said she wanted the students to research the topic. real research!
She wanted them to find "research that made them ask questions about immigration policies, quotas, and personal stories" (146).
Finding research that asks questions is the best kind of learning. Finding a controversial topic like immigration will always induce learning and understanding. If you give a student a analytical question that requires an analytical answer than that student is learning more about the topic than if they were to answer a true or false question.
Sometimes research is just black and white like thier textbooks students are forced to read. but, I believe it is the teachers job to teach the student to look at the black and white information and teach them to aske questions, asking questions and then finding more research to answer those questions is exactly what students need to fully understand an issue.