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This teacher training module presents the Student Membership Snapshot (SMS) system, a problem solving approach for teachers responding to increasing student diversity. The first chapter describes student diversity in learning styles, curricular outcomes, and social connections. The next chapter details the three steps of the SMS process: observation, problem-finding, and problem-solving. Chapter 3 provides three examples showing how the SMS process can be used by a teaching team to problem-find and problem-solve around issues of students' learning styles, curricular outcomes, and social connectedness. Examples of completed forms useful in the process of profiling the student are provided. The final chapter offers thoughts to reflect on in the SMS process, including the view that accommodating diversity is more like a journey than an event and that the SMS process provides teachers with a guided way of discussing children together using shared language. (DB)

1Boy Crusoe

By Allan Eric

Also published as" A Yankee Crusoe" . A 15 year old hard working and studious farm boy finds the lure of adventure on the seas as a merchant seaman more than he can resist. This is his story. " I was born in a little town in the State of Maine, near the close of the Civil War. My boyhood life did not differ materially from that of the average farmer's son in the remote country districts of New England--except, perhaps, that I read more and thought more. Hard work on the rugged soil, two terms each year in the little yellow country schoolhouse, a day's fishing now and then filled the early years of my life full to over-flowing. " What he gets is enough excitement and adventure to overflow his wildest dreams. How he experiences disaster and uses his wits and knowledge to overcome every problem makes for a great read. - Summary by Phil Chenevert